I have a lot of stuff but not nearly as much as you and the video guy has. If I knew I was dying I would ask my kids what they wanted and everything else would be sold.
Amazing Game Collection - But sad at the same time!
- Thread starter Tighe
- Start date
I have a lot of stuff but not nearly as much as you and the video guy has. If I knew I was dying I would ask my kids what they wanted and everything else would be sold.
Oh no! I forgot my Transformers collection! I have bins and bins of those!
This is all I display, but I had to move them because I had to move the shelf for more arcade games!
I bought tons of the reproduction Transformers from 1995 to 2008 and ended up selling most of them. I kept an Optimus and Megatron repro, both MISB and that's it, the rest have been sold or are up for sale.
I'm selling my Atari 2600 and 7800 games right now as well. Time to trim down the collection
OP
OP
Tighe
Well-known member
I bought tons of the reproduction Transformers from 1995 to 2008 and ended up selling most of them. I kept an Optimus and Megatron repro, both MISB and that's it, the rest have been sold or are up for sale.
I'm selling my Atari 2600 and 7800 games right now as well. Time to trim down the collection
I have the originals too, just not out.
timbre
New member
Let's back up a step.
Say it's not your death.... Say your house burns down. Why did you keep all that stuff? Sure some might make it, but really in the end run?
From experience. 11 months ago my house burned, not to the ground; but to a point that it was almost a total loss. One whole floor gone and water damage to the rest. We are back in and in the process of unpacking all the stuff that went to cleaning companies to be saved and stored.
$7000 drycleaning bill. These were clothes in storage that nobody in the family had worn for at least 3-4 years. Why were we keeping them??? I don't know. We have since given most of them away save a few memory items.
$24,000 in cleaning and storage. I still have one side of a two car garage stacked floor to ceiling with boxes that we have yet to unpack and sort. I've lived without the stuff for almost a year now. Did I really need it in the first place?
It has been a big wake up call on how badly we clutter our lives with stuff. Memories are wonderful. We should take the time to make them every chance we get. But is a memory tied to a piece of plastic really real?
I will be the first to admit that I collect(hoarde) stuff. The fire has made me sit back and think about all of it.
I strongly urge each and every one on here to think about this. If your house burned down and you lost everything (no loss of life), what are the memories that count? Is it the time spent with your hobbies that you want to remember? Or is it the time spent with the ones you love that are the memories that are important. Or if we look at it in the same line as the rest of this thread... do we want our loved ones remembering us for our 'collections'? or do we want them remembering us for the time we spent with them making memories.
I know the answer for me. I've been stupid to not see it in the past. My wife and my two boys are who i want my memories with. The games be dammed.
[I'll get off my soapbox now]
Say it's not your death.... Say your house burns down. Why did you keep all that stuff? Sure some might make it, but really in the end run?
From experience. 11 months ago my house burned, not to the ground; but to a point that it was almost a total loss. One whole floor gone and water damage to the rest. We are back in and in the process of unpacking all the stuff that went to cleaning companies to be saved and stored.
$7000 drycleaning bill. These were clothes in storage that nobody in the family had worn for at least 3-4 years. Why were we keeping them??? I don't know. We have since given most of them away save a few memory items.
$24,000 in cleaning and storage. I still have one side of a two car garage stacked floor to ceiling with boxes that we have yet to unpack and sort. I've lived without the stuff for almost a year now. Did I really need it in the first place?
It has been a big wake up call on how badly we clutter our lives with stuff. Memories are wonderful. We should take the time to make them every chance we get. But is a memory tied to a piece of plastic really real?
I will be the first to admit that I collect(hoarde) stuff. The fire has made me sit back and think about all of it.
I strongly urge each and every one on here to think about this. If your house burned down and you lost everything (no loss of life), what are the memories that count? Is it the time spent with your hobbies that you want to remember? Or is it the time spent with the ones you love that are the memories that are important. Or if we look at it in the same line as the rest of this thread... do we want our loved ones remembering us for our 'collections'? or do we want them remembering us for the time we spent with them making memories.
I know the answer for me. I've been stupid to not see it in the past. My wife and my two boys are who i want my memories with. The games be dammed.
[I'll get off my soapbox now]
I guess the real question is if you lost everything in a fire would you feel compelled to re-purchase everything you lost? I can safely say the majority of my items would not be replaced. That doesn't mean I am going to run out and sell everything I have collected.
timbre
New member
I guess the real question is if you lost everything in a fire would you feel compelled to re-purchase everything you lost? I can safely say the majority of my items would not be replaced. That doesn't mean I am going to run out and sell everything I have collected.
Not at all... I will be the first to admit that I very carefully pulled things from the house that I had collected and still will keep.... Will I go purchase everthing I had? NOPE. Will I make a conscious effort to limit what I bring into the house now? YEP
I think what I was getting at is that we let our hobbies, our collections overtake our lives. This false reality becomes what we eat, sleep, and talk about while the important things in our lives fall to the side. (I'm not saying everybody is that way, it's just examples like that youtube video and shows like hoarders (the Randy episode) that open one's eyes.
You make a good point and it's definitely a reminder to keep things in perspective.
Though, I think many of us who are family men can say it is possible to have collections as a hobby and make lifelong memories outside of that.
My father-in-law took his family all over the country visiting many of the national parks. They loved going to Disneyland. These are some memories we've already started building as a family having gone to Hawaii, Disneyland, national parks, etc.
Believe me, if I had to, I'd give all my stuff away if it hindered me from being a good husband and father. My wife and I keep each other in check and I'm thankful for that.
Though, I think many of us who are family men can say it is possible to have collections as a hobby and make lifelong memories outside of that.
My father-in-law took his family all over the country visiting many of the national parks. They loved going to Disneyland. These are some memories we've already started building as a family having gone to Hawaii, Disneyland, national parks, etc.
Believe me, if I had to, I'd give all my stuff away if it hindered me from being a good husband and father. My wife and I keep each other in check and I'm thankful for that.
Last edited:
OP
OP
Tighe
Well-known member
HAA HAA HAA! Exactly!
They are insured, I took photos. And no I wouldn't rebuy them.
i also had a fire many years ago lost most of what i owned and learned the lessons that come along with that. now i have a one year rule. if i dont take it out and use it at least once a year it either gets sold, given away or trashed, period. i am not interested in having a museum or collecting anything i do not use anymore. i used to be an extreme hoarder had a collection not so different from the huge one shown before with all the consoles, only none of it was organized and several rooms you literally could not walk in shit was stacked 7 or 8 feet in the air. all cool useable stuff, i never saved broken shit, but if you cant even get in the room with it whats the point? i traded the bulk of it away to a junk shop in exchange for band equipment and saved the essentials like NES, PS2, atari 2600, sega genesis, all the hand helds and table tops etc. i store each console in its own box with all the cords and games and will bring them out one at a time if we have company and it seems like something people would enjoy. i am much happier this way. i am not saying my way is for everyone but this is what worked for me.
SilverCoin
Active member
If I lose my stuff to fire or any other natural disaster, you had better believe that I would start to re-collect all my stuff as soon as I possibly could.
I'm in the middle of reclaiming sold arcades that I couldn't hang onto through a earlier divorce..
Plus, I firmly believe that those with the most toys... yadda yadda you know my point..
I'm in the middle of reclaiming sold arcades that I couldn't hang onto through a earlier divorce..
Plus, I firmly believe that those with the most toys... yadda yadda you know my point..
I am mainly a console collector and have just over 1560 games including arcade games. I have already told people what to do with my stuff when I die, don't sell it. I don't care what they do with it as long as they don't sell it. Honestly, There are some big names in retro games in the process right now of starting up the video game museum (Joe Santulli, Nolan Bushnell, and somebody else I can't remember). As far as I remember, it is going to open up in San Jose, California.
More than likely, I would donate everything to those guys to ensure that it all is preserved
More than likely, I would donate everything to those guys to ensure that it all is preserved
thebman80
Well-known member
Damn never owned an SNES? You don't know what you missed out on LOL. Next to the NES its one of my all time top favorite systems. Man talk to Orion he should still have SNES stuff he wants to sell.
Next to the NES its one of my all time top favorite systems. Man talk to Orion he should still have SNES stuff he wants to sell.
6lucario
Active member
i any one has any stuff for sale let me know! mostly cards, games,and game systems
also do you know who has the huge collection?
also do you know who has the huge collection?
