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It's because when you first buy the thing, you don't want to get rid of the box right away, in case you need to RMA it. So it gets put in the pile along with the rest of the boxes. Then you're in the same place for years and the pile gets bigger.
I do a decent job with culling the boxes, and even toss obsolete tech now and then, but I have been hoarding hard drives for 30 years. It seems more trouble to securely dispose of them than to just let them pile up. I even still have IDE drives and am not quite sure whether I have an adaptor that can read them. But I can't throw them out, because I don't know if I have sensitive info on them.
Can you rent a degausser?