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When I was in high school I had like 5+ various Akira and Ghost in the Shell shirts made by a company called "Fashion Victim" (lol). You coud find them at any local shop that reeked of incense and sold bongs in the late 90's. Recently I was thinking man, I wonder if that "NEO TOKYO E.X.P.L.O.D.E" shirt is still in the crawl space at my parents house I kind of want to rock that again. But nope I guess they got trashed or donated or whatever over the last 25 years. So I'm thinking maybe I'll just find it on ebay for like $10 and all of these things are like $400-$1000 now. Even if they are ratty as hell (distressed as the auctions would put it) Who the gently caress would pay that for an old T-Shirt. wild. And I had like, all of them. Also regret Passing on that $200 Alpha Black Lotus. Whoops. What did you just donate or throwaway that is worth a surprising amount of money now?
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Lmao who would even buy an anime t-shirt
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Dec 11, 2021 12:37
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doesnt matter to me people with too much money are buying nice spec hondas for race car money ok fine if you like the integra that much and need it brand new but you can build any car to do just as much, some more than others or just buy a hayabusa ive seen them on sale for like 5K and now you can comfortably do 300 kph with Japanese reliability numberoneposter fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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Dec 11, 2021 12:46
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Not really thrown away but I saved up my birthday and Christmas money for like a year to buy a used big ole brick first gen Gameboy. I lost it somewhere twenty five years ago and I've been regretting my childish carelessness ever since.
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Dec 11, 2021 14:49
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To get a playstation way way back in the mid 90s I sold my nearly complete collection of SNES squaresoft games plus earthbound. They weren't in great condition or anything, mostly just the cartridges, but it was a shitload of games oh well
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Dec 11, 2021 14:54
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The literal dumpster of IBM Model M keyboards and assorted computer bits we tossed when upgrading computer labs in high school
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Dec 11, 2021 15:45
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I had a runescape account with a party hat and the email for it is long gone.
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Dec 11, 2021 15:57
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Forrest porn?
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Dec 11, 2021 17:40
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The lesson that bitcoin has taught us is to never throw anything out.
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Dec 11, 2021 19:26
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If it helps, the reason all this poo poo is expensive is precisely because you threw it away. And so did the 40-something weebs buying this sort of poo poo on eBay today. Its simple economics; less supply + constant demand = inflated cost. So there is no reason to ideate on this sort of thing.
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Dec 11, 2021 19:32
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i bought pat the bunny's last album that was only released on vinyl and the first pressing that was limited to 300 copies for like $20 when it was released and it's now worth 3-400 according to discogs. i don't think it counts because i still have it but i almost gave it away as a gift ive given away a bunch of vintage film cameras that were probably worth a few thousand that i would find and CLA so they worked again
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Dec 11, 2021 19:46
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Woodsy Owl posted:If it helps, the reason all this poo poo is expensive is precisely because you threw it away. And so did the 40-something weebs buying this sort of poo poo on eBay today. Its simple economics; less supply + constant demand = inflated cost. Simple economics huh??? If it's so simple, why's it always so loving complicated huh??? You ever think of that huh did ya there Morton Fryman lookin rear end
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Dec 12, 2021 01:23
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I get rid of things I don't use or need. I keep the things I do. The idea of holding on to something for potentially decades that I have no use for because it "might be worth something" is loving wild. That's some beanie baby poo poo right there.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:25
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I used to collect PEZ dispensers. I never had any SUPER rare ones but if I sold them now I would have cleared $1,000 easy.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:27
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wish i coulda thrown away my 90s cards. despite the sports card market exploding these last few years these cards aren't worth the cardboard they're printed on, even rookie cards of stars and hall of famers
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Dec 12, 2021 01:36
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When I was like 10 one of my friends had a college fund set up that was just a shitload of unopened boxes of baseball card packs in a closet. I'm sure that paid for college tuition around 2001 or so. Absolutely a solid investment. That kid's dad was a sheriff and he ended up going to juvie for burglary
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Dec 12, 2021 01:38
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I never throw anything away and have a terrible hoarding problem, so I am for sure very wealthy
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I played with mining bitcoin when I was in college and then threw that hard drive away a few years later e: but also, gently caress bitcoin
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signalnoise posted:When I was like 10 one of my friends had a college fund set up that was just a shitload of unopened boxes of baseball card packs in a closet. I'm sure that paid for college tuition around 2001 or so. Absolutely a solid investment. That kid's dad was a sheriff and he ended up going to juvie for burglary Weird they would send an adult to juvie
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Dec 12, 2021 01:49
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my underwear with the jesus face skidmarks
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Jabberlock posted:Weird they would send an adult to juvie Is it
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My mom threw away a ton of original run TMNT toys plus a technodrome and the pizza van and more during a move and I have never forgiven her and never will.
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I've destroyed everything I've ever been given.
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Dec 12, 2021 01:58
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Probably a shitload of alpha and beta magic cards I traded away. I don't really give a gently caress though, I still have a treasure trove of alpha lands, an entire set of unglued, and (never thought it would be worth money but always knew it would be for the wrong reasons if it was) Invoke Prejudice
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About ten years ago my family was in such a bad financial situation that we had to start selling off belongings just to make rent, but also no one knew/cared to learn how to sell online* and do shipping so we just sold stuff to the family next door. I remember they got our old stereo and literally the next day it was out on the curb with all the glass broken, so whoops. Anyway this included almost every game I owned since childhood, and the consoles and controllers to go with them. I think some of them would have gone for way higher** individually than the bulk price we sold them for, like the Majora's Mask cartridge that had a holographic sticker. I don't care about collector's edition stuff but I do miss having those games around to play on original hardware for the ~nostalgia~. Turns out that buying it all again would cost at least 3 times what we sold it all for and the financial situation has only marginally improved ten years later. It owns lol Also I don't think I ever had any of the Pokemon cards that nets big money, but if I did then they were rendered worthless the moment nine-year-old me wrote my name on them with glittery gel pens EDIT: * Though now that I think of it there for almost a year we couldn't even afford Internet access so selling online might not have even been an option ** "Way higher" is an exaggeration, what I mean to say is something like that would have been more expensive than the maybe $10 it was worth as one part of the whole collection sold, if that makes sense MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Dec 12, 2021 |
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Dec 12, 2021 02:03
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I'm hearing lately how Lego sets are better investments than gold, yielding a better yearly return on average. I can't imagine what my old pirate ship(long gone) might be worth.
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Mudcrab Merchant posted:I never throw anything away and have a terrible hoarding problem, so I am for sure very wealthy Also my parents basically never threw anything of mine away, even if I actively tried to throw it away. Mom would usually find the bag I tried to put on the curb and bring it back inside. Dad is not like that but he did not have the willpower to constantly fight her. ANYWAY The reason I bring this up Is because the one time in my entire life I had a good idea along these lines was when Pokémon cereal first hit in like 1999 or whatever. It even said it was a "collector's edition" on it, but I was like... dude. This thing is only getting more popular. If I buy a bunch of this now, I can EBay it in like 10 years for a profit, guaranteed! I was 100% right that I could have flipped it for big bucks later. AND it is the only thing of mine my parents ever decided to throw away with no input from me. I think I bought 25 boxes.
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Armitage posted:wish i coulda thrown away my 90s cards. despite the sports card market exploding these last few years these cards aren't worth the cardboard they're printed on, even rookie cards of stars and hall of famers I went to sell my 90's sports cards at the local comic shop, and my dad was like "you are nuts. I'll buy them from you and you'll se what a dumb decision is was to sell them down the road" He still has them and they are still worthless lol. I regret selling my Magic cards for a pittance though. My collection from HS would have been worth a shitload of money right now. One day I just decided "Magic is for nerds" and sold my huge collection for $300. Dumbass Veni.
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I had almost the entirety of the No Limit Records discography from 1994 to 2000 that were all bought by myself when they originally released. A few years back, I went through my CD collection and purged a bunch I hadn’t listened to in years to a resale record store, with a good chunk of them being my No Limit records. I never even ripped them to my computer save for a handful and thought to myself (at the time), “What was I thinking buying this poo poo?” as each CD went into the big box for recycling. Now I think, “What the gently caress was I thinking getting rid of of those CDs?” because not only was it still good music in my older mind, but it was very nostalgic for me, too. Plus, a lot of them are hard to find now, are out of print and/or command high prices online for first pressings, which all of mine were. So stupid of me, but even worse that I couldn’t and didn’t even think of ripping them to my computer first before recycling them.
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I've never been able to find it in my storage unit or my dad's but it's a first edition of the first volume of a light novel series from 2006 that got reprinted as a manga a decade later but with worse covers. instead of a woman cradling a child on a pile of skulls on the cover they used the japanese cover which while it makes sense that they would do that, it didn't age well compared even to later covers, and they werent exactly committed to using the same cover art after that anyway. The japanese cover is a rob liefeld looking woman's spine twisting butt. It was the only book released and copies go for enough now but i might pay it if it means not grimacing at the cover
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Dec 12, 2021 09:42
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My virginity.
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You Are A Elf posted:I had almost the entirety of the No Limit Records discography from 1994 to 2000 that were all bought by myself when they originally released. A few years back, I went through my CD collection and purged a bunch I hadn’t listened to in years to a resale record store, with a good chunk of them being my No Limit records. I never even ripped them to my computer save for a handful and thought to myself (at the time), “What was I thinking buying this poo poo?” as each CD went into the big box for recycling. EYY OOO it ain't my fault DID I DO THAT
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Dec 12, 2021 10:01
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Every load I've blasted into a kleenex. drat, I was just tossing collectibles away.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Every load I've blasted into a kleenex. drat, I was just tossing collectibles away. Don't worry the entire world of collectibles is based on supply/demand, so there is no reason to feel bad about throwing something away that absolutely no one else on earth wants.
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veni veni veni posted:Don't worry the entire world of collectibles is based on supply/demand, so there is no reason to feel bad about throwing something away that absolutely no one else on earth wants. 
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porn magazines and dvds are going to be currency in the future. vhs tapes will be like 100k bills, only used for treasury transfers
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Bogus Adventure posted:Every load I've blasted into a kleenex. drat, I was just tossing collectibles away. This but a cumsock, it would have been vintage by now if I'd kept it and worth a fortune.
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An entire duffle bag of He-Man action figures, entirely complete and in great condition, that I left at my parents when I moved out. At the time, wasn't even sure of its existence and definitely not it's value. It was only like 15+ years later that I was like "Ah, well poo poo those could have come in handy"
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