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

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  • 01-07-2009 11:27pm
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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    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.
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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    My spunk is stored neatly in socks beneath my bed


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    Photi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭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?

    .

    My langer.


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    pumpkins

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


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    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭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. :(


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


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

    has to be worth something


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    My name is URL wrote: »
    My spunk is stored neatly in socks beneath my bed

    I'LL TAKE 8!


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    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    phasers wrote: »
    pumpkins

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

    Sell before Halloween! BEFORE!


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    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


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


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    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    Ry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭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.


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    magick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


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


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    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    phasers wrote: »
    I'LL TAKE 8!
    I KNEW IT!!!!!

    A transformers statue since not many were made :o


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    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭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.


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    Armin_Tamzarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    My youth.... :(


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    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    My youth.... :(

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


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    anniehoo
    Registered Users Posts: 6,596 ✭✭✭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: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.


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    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    My life... just about :(


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    Dman001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭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


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    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭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.
    :D


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    TomCo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    Signed Ron Jeremy pictures.


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    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭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.


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    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    hope.


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    #27
    frag420
    Registered Users Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭frag420


    a love letter written by sharon stone in 1997.


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    #28
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭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.


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    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    My Atari Jaguar and my Windows 98 disc


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    zonEEE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭zonEEE


    first edition harry potter books ;)


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    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


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


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