AIR IN EMPTY BOXES CREATE STALE QI

I was reading this book on Feng Shui titled The Way to Harmony where the author, Albert Low, mentioned that there are those among us who like to keep empty shoe boxes.  In his book, Mr Low mentioned that trapping air in empty boxes for a long time creates stale or dead Qi.  His advice was to not store too many boxes in the house as they may sap up the life-giving forces in the building and deprive the occupants their share.
Those boxes that you see in the above picture belong to me.  Ya, I am guilty of storing boxes too.  Must do something about them pronto.