The great clearout
My parents, though they are the kind of people who have ancient cars rusting on the drive and a garage full of old bikes and 'blocks' of water-damaged land rover magazines (mostly my dad,) and all that kind of junk, decided to have a grand clear-out and hire a skip to dump all our accumulated crap in.
This included stuff out of my room and a vast 'cupboard' (its practically another room) contained within. It did not go well.
Things kept for future value/posterity:

-Mine and my brother's old schoolbooks... "I'll sell them when you're both famous!!" Err, okay, when exactly is that going to be then? And who would want to buy my shitty year 3 maths book?

-Loads of fucking old annuals, Beanos, etc. Once again, these are apparently sound investments for the future as they can be sold for a lot of money to collectors. Ah yes, apart from nobody collects the Beano annuals as they are a pile of shite and you can still get them now. Plus no-one would want our old messed-up dog eared copies even if they were worth more then 50p.

-More fucking old broken crappy kids toys. We are not the kind of people that can't bear to throw away beloved childhood cuddly toys, so there is no reason at all for us to keep this stuff. Mum however thought differently. "You can give them to your children!" Yeah, the children we are most likely never going to have, and if we did, would probably want new toys, not 30-year-old Smurf dolls with biro on them.

Etc, etc loads of shit like this.

Things thrown away:

-An antique German made very very valuable and still working accordion, with fancy pearloid bits and a case, which was given to my brother by a relative a long time ago, and its destruction was only discovered when he came by specifically to use said accordion. The dummy was indeed spat.

-Old Iron Maiden vinyl, including some kind of limited edition copy of Piece Of Mind. Very cool. Now in a fucking landfill.

Probably all the Star Wars stuff....cheers, mum. That's not collectible at all. Especially not the Millennium Falcon.
Damn.
(Ryuken-Kai, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 15:18, Reply)