How (literally) retentive are you?

[jbsegal]

[Poll #644837]

Comments

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

Back when CDs were annoyingly packaged in tall thin cardboard boxes, I bought a copy of Joe Satriani's _Surfing with the Alien_. Instead of the stupid cutout at the top displaying the CD as the liner tried to pretend it was equivalent to an album cover, it really *was* a scaled-up picture of the Silver Surfer. :)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Mark Mothersbaugh's Musik For Insomniaks discs did the same thing. Cool art. I proabably still have those. Opened flat, they're just a bit over 12x12...

[alphacygni]

I normally keep everything, and I did used to keep those cardboard CD case boxes (I had this unfulfilled intent of making a collage), but the stickers on plastic wrap are something that it has never even occurred to me to keep. Wow.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

It would never occur to me to keep any packing material not necessary for safe storage or transport of an item.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I usually throw excess packaging away. This has been a problem where video games are concerned, especially when years later I dig them out to reinstall them and find that the registration key # was "to be found on the inside cover of the CD holder" or somesuch. Since then I've taken to locating the key # and writing it in sharpie on the cd(s).

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Well, now I feel like a bit less of a packrat just because I keep cardboard boxes full of discarded IDE cables in the spare room.