LEGO support group established for fans struggling to recycle their boxes

Struggling to take the plunge and finally recycle your mountains of opened LEGO boxes? There’s an online support group for that.

It’s a classic quandary that we all face eventually: what do you do with the dozens of empty cardboard boxes you’ve amassed over the months and years? You could store them inside one another or carefully flatten them down, but those are really only temporary solutions to a continuous problem. Eventually, you’re going to run out of room to store flattened boxes, too.

When that day comes, you’ll probably start to contemplate recycling one or two of your boxes. But one or two quickly becomes three or four, and before you know it, you’ve tossed out every single box. If that’s a reality you’re having difficulty coming to terms with, the internet is here to guide you through this troubling time.

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More specifically, a group of almost 300 redditors are here to collectively help you ‘beat the cardboard demons’, as one user imaginatively explained the situation. You’ll find them gathered over on the r/legoboxsupportgroup subreddit, which was established last week thanks to the r/legostarwars subreddit.

User justxkyle published an inspirational image of their LEGO Star Wars set boxes in a recycling bin, and r2-z2 asked whether a support group existed for ‘people who want to but can’t throw out boxes yet’. It didn’t, so they took the initiative and set one up. Hundreds of fellow LEGO fans in serious storage turmoil flocked to the group, asking for solutions for recycling UCS boxes, where to store their dismantled sets, and how to store their instruction booklets (pro tip: toss those too).

Following that early flutter of posts, the subreddit has largely quietened. (And in the group description, r2-z2 admits they only really set it up so they’d clean their room.) But there’s no reason it needs to stay that way: if you too are having trouble getting rid of your LEGO boxes, maybe – just maybe – you’ll find yourself in good company there, and discover the moral support you need to start filling up your recycling bin.

As justxkyle put it (and we can all hope to be as ruthless as justxkyle): “Boxes are temporary, LEGO is forever.”

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