I got too much junk

gekko · 07-11-2003, 04:21 PM

Collectables? Fancy word for junk! Piles of worthless junk! Why must it torment me?

Ahem. I was cleaning out my room today only to find I have way too much junk, 99.9% of it gaming-related junk. I have every game magazine I have ever bought, dating back to the 80s. Why? I never read them, and they are just taking up space in boxes weighing well over 50 lbs. What a waste.

I have a million comic books. Why? Again, I don't read them. I have most of the first 50 Sonic ones, I have the books for Mario and Zelda which are made up of the comics that ran in Nintendo Power in the early 90s. I have some Nintendo ones that are ancient, like Captain N issue 3. Taking up space...

You know those old inserts that come with Nintendo games telling you to ubscribe to Nintendo Power? I have ones that came with games that are nearly a decade old, and I even have one from the NES days. Pure worthless junk. Have some for Sega too. Buy two Saturn games, get some money back. Panzer Dragoon Saga, $49!! Ha! Not these days.

I have strategy guides for games I'll probably never play again, dating back to SMB3. Why, why, why?

I have action figures and toys from Zelda, Sonic, Mario, Monkey Ball, Mario Kart, Pokemon, and a million other games. I don't play with toys. Junk. I have plushes like Sonic and Tails from their Genesis days, some Mario and Yoshi ones, the whole damn Sonic Adventure set, and of course, Samba de Amigo. Plushes take up a ton of space. Then we got beanies, every way Nintendo released, along with their talking counterparts, and some posable. Pokemon had a million beanies too, I have quite a few. More junk.

I have every bobblehead Nintendo has released, as well as Lara Craft. I have the Super Mario Sunshine capsule toy complete collection, from Japan. Ok, sweet decorations, but that's all they do! Take up space!

I got t-shirts I never wear. Yoshi's Story, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball, Mario Kart Double Dash, and some others. More stuff taking up space.

It's all junk I tell ya! While some people may try to convince you that it's somehow cool having old game magazines and stuff, it's not. It's a huge waste of space! Why the hell would anyone hang on to all this crap? Such a waste of time trying to sort through it all now. Wow, the cardboard back to the action figure that came with Ocarina of Time! Garabage! *sigh* But hey, I could've been worse. At one point I had all my SNES, N64, and Game Boy boxes. What a big waste that was.

Now the moral of the story is, trash this stuff when you get it, it's junk, and it'll save you the trouble later on.

GameMaster · 07-11-2003, 04:42 PM

A lot of people on e-Bay may find your junk to be of some worth.

A wise man once said, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

Rndm_Perfection · 07-11-2003, 04:44 PM

What Saturn games do you have? I'd consider buying them.

gekko · 07-11-2003, 04:47 PM

I'm not selling any games. I haven't sold anything but my NES. That, and my Saturn isn't very old at all. Only about a year or so, and I haven't even played all my games, like Panzer Dragoon. Just bought it cause I saw it new.

Games are a waste of space, but not the junk I'm complaining about.

Canyarion · 07-11-2003, 05:14 PM

If you wait long enough, it'll be worth a lot of money!

Rndm_Perfection · 07-11-2003, 05:25 PM

So, basically you have all this stuff... you're complaining about it, you won't sell it, you don't use them, and you probably didn't even purchase most of it by yourself.

*waits for the right time*

...

Quit whining.

gekko · 07-11-2003, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Canyarion

If you wait long enough, it'll be worth a lot of money!

Not exactly. Most of it is worthless, just stuff you have as a kid, buy toys here and there, enjoy it for a while, then shove it somewhere. Most of the stuff would've gone down in value. For example, the Link bobblehead used to go for $75 on eBay. Now it goes for $15.

It's just I've been playing games for 14 years. Along the way I got some neat game-related toys, you play with them for a while, enjoy them, then shove it somewhere. A decade later you go clean out all this crap, what I might have had some reason to hang on to, I now find completely worthless and I've already wasted a day cleaning through only some of it.

Think of it as collecting baseball cards as a kid. You think they're so cool, and you don't want to get rid of them because they might be worth something one day. So you tuck them away in a closet, only to find them again a decade later, and now you realize they're not worth anything and it's just junk.