What are you hanging on to because it might be worth something one day?

peasant

Anything gathering dust / escaping spring cleanings on a regular basis even though it's basically scrap and just taking up space, just because you have the faint (and most likely delusional) hope that it might make a few bob a few years down the line?

In my case my first ever computer, a lovely Sharp MZ 731
http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/first700.htm
with all accessories has already moved house and country several times and I just can't bring myself to just throw it away.

My name is URL

My spunk is stored neatly in socks beneath my bed

Photi

peasant wrote: »

Anything gathering dust / escaping spring cleanings on a regular basis even though it's basically scrap and just taking up space, just because you have the faint (and most likely delusional) hope that it might make a few bob a few years down the line?

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My langer.

phasers

pumpkins

I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January.

TheZohanS

peasant wrote: »

Anything gathering dust / escaping spring cleanings on a regular basis even though it's basically scrap and just taking up space, just because you have the faint (and most likely delusional) hope that it might make a few bob a few years down the line?

My house.

FlutterinBantam

I hang my ballsack in a jug of iced water to get the wrinkles out.

has to be worth something

phasers

My name is URL wrote: »

My spunk is stored neatly in socks beneath my bed

I'LL TAKE 8!

Alanstrainor

phasers wrote: »

pumpkins

I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January.

Sell before Halloween! BEFORE!

Maddison

My son....he might win the lotto some day

monkeyfudge

I have a Barbie and Ken set with them dressed as Mulder and Scully... Scully has the wrong hair, so it's worth more...

Oh and I have the very first generation of iPod too.

starbelgrade

I had a Manchester United, 100 year centenary jersey that I bought in 2001, hoping that some day it'd be worth something. Never even wore it.

I paid around 50 quid for it & was lucky to get rid of it for €30 on ebay afew weeks ago.

Next time, I'll buy a Westlife t-shirt. It'll pay for itself in irony.

Ry

Callcards, still I'm a sad bastard. I missed the boat selling them and now I'm not sure if they'll ever sell. Got some real old ones but meh they probably never will.

magick

A lot of 1980s star wars action figures in my parents attic

Professey Chin

phasers wrote: »

I'LL TAKE 8!

I KNEW IT!!!!!

A transformers statue since not many were made

Danbo!

My grandad gave me an old coin he got in the war (WWII) called a 'Double Eagle' from 1933. Apparently there was a lot of fuss over it in the 30s and when they were looking through a ransacked house belonging to an Israeli diplomat he found it. Must take it somewhere to get it valued actually.

Armin_Tamzarian

I've got a signed Michael Jackson concert ticket for Cork '88.

I'm hanging on to it because it might be worth a fortune some day when he's dead.

Voodu Child

My youth....

starbelgrade

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Oh and I have the very first generation of iPod too.

Oooh.. poor you. I have the first generation of the Creative Player... it's 3MB & the size of a brick & set me back €300.

The other day I got an iPod 2mb Shuffle... it's the smaller than the size of a hotel's packet of matches (when hotels always had free matches!) & cost me nothing.. it was a freebie from Meteor.

I reckon I'll be lucky to flog it for 20 quid on ebay.

starbelgrade

Voodu Child wrote: »

My youth....

Don't hang onto it for too long or it won't be worth much!

anniehoo

peasant wrote: »

In my case my first ever computer, a lovely Sharp MZ 731
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Size isnt *cough* everything Peasant...64kb :D

Seriously *more coughs* this is quite nerdy, but ive been collecting quotations and phrases since i was 17 (so its a good while) and would love to have it as a book eventually. In a fire (bar people and pets) id run back in to save as each one has meant something special to me.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

My life... just about

Dman001

Are things worth hanging on to anymore? Things are so mass produced these days that it is hard to imagine that they will become rare and valuable. And with the internet being widely available, is it still worth hanging on to the likes of newspapers from memorable days

K4t

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

I've got a signed Michael Jackson concert ticket for Cork '88.

I'm hanging on to it because it might be worth a fortune some day when he's dead.

TomCo

Signed Ron Jeremy pictures.

abouttobebanned

When pepsi changed their brand colour from red to blue...the daily mirror turned blue for a day. For some reason, i didn't throw it out.

kumate_champ07

hope.

frag420

a love letter written by sharon stone in 1997.

SV

I inherited one of the first editions of The Beano.

It's going to be my lifesaver if I lose all of my money doing something stupid.

Super-Rush

My Atari Jaguar and my Windows 98 disc

zonEEE

first edition harry potter books

admiralofthefleet

i got a few iraq bank notes with saddam hussein on them a few days after he was hanged

Terry

TomCo wrote: »

Signed Ron Jeremy pictures.

He visits Ireland on occasion. Has a friend in NUI Maynooth.
My friend met him in Las Vegas. Ron asked my friend where he was from. Rather than trying to explain where Leixlip is, my friend just said Dublin. Ron was able to tell my friend that Leixlip is in Kildare.*

I had some E.T. memorabilia, a millenium falcon (still boxed) and an AT-AT walker (still boxed). I haven't seen them in years.
They're probably in the attic. In 33 years, I've never been up there.




*It was easier than typing his full name every time.

Saint_Mel

Millenium 50p's

antodeco

Britney Spears first album, first draft, signed.

I also have a football signed by all the Irish team from 1990(ish) (cant remember if it was before or after italia '90)

Loads and loads of micromachines. Used though, but still. I have a full city of them. Oh, might take them back out!

AIB Shares....oh wait....

goldenbrown

right knee and left knee

Wibbs

Dman001 wrote: »

Are things worth hanging on to anymore? Things are so mass produced these days that it is hard to imagine that they will become rare and valuable. And with the internet being widely available, is it still worth hanging on to the likes of newspapers from memorable days

Yep of course they are. I mean things like kids comics were mass produced, yet most were thrown out or fell apart hence you'll have people paying 100,000 for a superman number 1 or whatever. And I would reckon someone said similar back when they first came out. The internet will help it too. ebay will increase customers for all sorts of stuff.

I've a silly amount of crap. :D Even as a kid I rarely threw stuff out. It has paid off already. The trick I'd reckon is to go for quality when it's out of fashion. Watches were my thing at one stage. People didn't want mechanical ticking ones back in the 80's. Digital was were it was at. I got ones for 100 odd quid in junk shops that are worth 1000's today. The other thing is stuff that was mass produced but designed to be throwaway, but popular or attached to a cultural event. "Limited" edition stuff I would avoid as most of it isn't limited, it's just marketing.

Then again I think it's better not to collect for future profit or any of that. Just get what you want and like and are interested in.

One area I reckon coud be a good one is the whole high performance family type cars. Things like subaru imprezas, mitzi evos, type R's and such. Not the later bloated ones, the early "pure" ones that defined the brand. Not so long ago they were everywhere and everyone wanted them. They were icons of motoring for a time. Joke's about them being clit cars because every cnut had one. You don't see nearly as many today and it's not that long ago. I reckon if someone bought say three standard not tricked up examples of each and some spares when the market bottoms out and stuck them in a barn for 20 years they'd get a bloody good return on their money.

Oh yea I have an original Star Wars cinema foyer not for resale, please destroy after film run written on it poster.

Trinity

A Bottler (brendan grace) signed album

I never keep anything, i give everything away i hate clutter!

Nolanger

Small R2D2 toy still in box - signed by Kenny Baker.

bookerboy

EIRCOM SHARES.Yes i was one of the million suckers conned by Mary o Rourke and our wonderfull government.

Wazdakka

My faith in Ireland as a well run and prosperous country..

It's worth next to nothing these days tho,
I should have sold it about three years ago when it at least had a false face value.

I guess it's one of those things that you hang on to in the hope that one day it'll be worth what we all hoped...
But it never is.

Like an original sealed darth vader figure... But with Brian Cowens head on it :mad:

Quazzie

I have an Arsenal Jersey signed by the Invincible team of 2003/2004

I've a few coins (30+) from the 1890s that might be worth something someday.

Lockstep

First edition Harry Potter books.

Declan Ganley gave me a copy of his book, I was holding onto it in the hope that it'd be worth a few bob when he'd staged a coup. Selfish bastard just bowed out when he didn't get in.:mad: Now I'm stuck with a poorly written and shoddy book.

A few original copies of stuff by Burke (I really don't know how we have them)

Copy of a U2 flyer from when they played Galway in the 70s.

grundie

A pile of 1970s-era Agfa Magnetonband reel to reel cartridges still in their original cellophane seals.

homerun_homer

A Nirvana ticket for the RDS dated the day Kurt Cobain was found dead. I was young at the time and my mom wasn't gonna let me go to a concert so after his death I went up to the local music shop and bought me a ticket, being the die hard fan that I was, the other good thing being that I knew it'd be worth something in time.

Theta

Stee wrote: »

My grandad gave me an old coin he got in the war (WWII) called a 'Double Eagle' from 1933. Apparently there was a lot of fuss over it in the 30s and when they were looking through a ransacked house belonging to an Israeli diplomat he found it. Must take it somewhere to get it valued actually.

I have 3

In the summer of 2002, a 1933 Double Eagle was auctioned off for $7,590,020 US,

WithCheesePlease

homerun_homer wrote: »

A Nirvana ticket for the RDS dated the day Kurt Cobain was found dead. I was young at the time and my mom wasn't gonna let me go to a concert so after his death I went up to the local music shop and bought me a ticket, being the die hard fan that I was, the other good thing being that I knew it'd be worth something in time.

I was stupid enough to return my ticket. Bought myself a pair of ox blood doc boots with the refund money. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

partyguinness

My Amstrad CPC 464 which Santa got me in Xmas 1988...:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC


Plus my 150 BOI Shares and 50 Anglo Shares which cost me €2000 2 years ago..

smithcity

I've got a bunch of Jurassic Park 2 Hologram things for sticking on your schoolbag, and big Brass coins with dinosaurs on them that were given away with Kelloggs packs when the movie came out. One day someones gonna express a sincere desire to own these old... things and offer me cash money. Sweet

Theta

partyguinness wrote: »

My Amstrad CPC 464 which Santa got me in Xmas 1988...:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC


Plus my 150 BOI Shares and 50 Anglo Shares which cost me €2000 2 years ago..

I have a cpc too its the 128 model (CPC 6128) with the 3 inch not floppy disk drive. Ah yes you have a choice of green or dark green on the screen.

Pop's Diner

My house.

partyguinness

irlmarc wrote: »

I have a cpc too its the 128 model with the 3 inch not floppy disk drive. Ah yes you have a choice of green or dark green on the screen.

Ah yes my buddy had one of those.

We had this scam going whereby he could copy all his games from disk to cassette so I could use them and he could use my cassettes on his 128..he had adapted one of the serial ports...jayzus we were only 10 yrs old!!!