Hey, Martha Stewart has a great solution for boxes! When you buy something new, you take a sticky note and a thick felt-tip pen, and you write the 'throw-away' date on it. So if the product has a five year warranty and you buy it today, you'd write 'May 2010'. You also staple the bill of sale to the box at the time, so if you do need to do anything you have what you need right there. Then when you're in your basement putting a new box in, you check the dates on the other ones. Seems like a good idea!
