Games, games and more games
Not so much "thrown out" as "sold for beer money":
[*]I sold my C64, 1541II disk drive and hundreds of games for about £40 in 1993. Have been looking into getting another one ever since.
[*]Same deal with my SNES, Woldcard and 200+ games. Sold that in about 1995. Have rebought my collection again in the last couple of years, costing my much more than the £40 I got for it 13 years ago.
[*]I also flogged a stack of PS1 games that I had ammassed during my first few years in the games industry for 50p each, not realising that some of them were worth more than their original price - not that I'd paid for them in the first place. The vast majority were worth 50p, but I reckon maybe half a dozen of them are worth £50ish. My biggest regret with that one is that I didn't keep any of the ones with my name in the credits.

Oh, and all my Star Wars toys went at a car boot sale 20 years ago. 10p each, or thereabouts. I even had the Luke in a Stormtrooper outfit, complete.

On the flipside, I've just had a rather cathartic week clearing out tonnes of old PC parts, cables, games and other junk that I've been hoarding for the last 20 years. I spent most of the time I was clearing it out saying "why am I keeping this crap?" I stuck some stuff on eBay (boxed games, original (G1?) transformers), some went to charity (anything that didn't sell on eBay), some to FreeCycle (anything that charities wouldn't take) and three binbags went the tip (anything left). I have an almost empty room in my house to fill with the next twenty years worth of crap (or the wife's shoes).
(ScousersPet, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 15:02, Reply)