[merqabah]

i dont know why someone would buy a figure and not play with it, pose it around, change heads, put the accesories on etc., why would someone go buy a figure with 20+ points of articulation, alternate hands, effects, weapons, maybe some gimmick, and not get the pleasure of messing around with it..

that said, i only keep boxes that are easy to repackage, and have a nice visual style, for example figuarts/figma/revoltech, lately the black series,, it would be dumb to throw most of those boxes away, but i display them sans box.

as you said you only live once, you could get hit by a car tomorrow die, and another bastard is going to get the pleasure of opening the toy you bought, heres a simile, its like buying a comic and keeping it wraped without reading it.