things that cost lots

**underfoot** · 20th September 2009, 06:06 AM

tThe council clean up is on again, and as I dutifully drag out stuff that I've hung onto for years, things that need throwing out, but will get dusted and tucked away again,
things that I paid lots for but are now entirely obsolete and worthless,
...there's the 6 cd stacker that took up half the boot.....

whoda known that you'd be able to fit a squillion songs in a thing the size of a credit card.
...all the slr camera gear...

.. even the newfangled digital camera (1.2 meg with a 16k memory card that cost a motza)
... the huge rear spoiler for the Datsun 180B ...

nah, that's goin straight to the pool room.
... then there's the ABmaster 2000

,..it'll give you a body like a sock full of walnuts.. (that's assuming you use the thing)...

.....anyways,...it can't be just me with this hoard of useless things that'll never get used and never get tossed......can it?
...

**wheelinround** · 20th September 2009, 08:34 AM

knew we should have hung around in Coff's another week or so

back of the car would have been dragging on the ground.

SLR camera gear tell me more John

No you don't really have a 180B wing now thats embarrassing

**artme** · 20th September 2009, 09:26 AM

Ahh Yes!! The Datsun 180B. 20 more faults than the 160.

**watson** · 20th September 2009, 09:49 AM

That reminds me......its raining Datsun Cogs here.

**arose62** · 20th September 2009, 12:45 PM

Don't you have garage sales where you live?

People will actually give you money for that stuff!

**Pusser** · 20th September 2009, 04:57 PM

Do they give money for SLRs? - I have a Olympus OM2N and heaps of lenses, flashes and other accessories but figured I would be stuck with them now i have gone digital.

**dennford** · 20th September 2009, 05:29 PM

Anyone want to buy a computer with 20mb hard drive and 16 m of ram. But wait, it gets better, I did give away a tandy trs - something or other; I do remember that it had 16k (No, not m) of memory, had a green screen, a tape cassete deck for storage and I had to type in all the programmes in basic.

Denn

**Big Shed** · 20th September 2009, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Pusser

Do they give money for SLRs? - I have a Olympus OM2N and heaps of lenses, flashes and other accessories but figured I would be stuck with them now i have gone digital.

Last 4 sold on Epay went for between 83 and 200 dollars, some were body only, lenses tend to still sell as well.

**watson** · 20th September 2009, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by dennford

Anyone want to buy a computer with 20mb hard drive and 16 m of ram. But wait, it gets better, I did give away a tandy trs - something or other; I do remember that it had 16k (No, not m) of memory, had a green screen, a tape cassete deck for storage and I had to type in all the programmes in basic.

Denn

A TRS -80.......my God!!
Mine once took 2 days to sort a 500 entry data base into alphabetical order.
They taught us patience.....and Basic.

**dennford** · 20th September 2009, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by watson

A TRS -80.......my God!!
Mine once took 2 days to sort a 500 entry data base into alphabetical order.
They taught us patience.....and Basic.

I actually wish that I still had it.

Denn

**joe greiner** · 20th September 2009, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by dennford

I actually wish that I still had it.

Denn

Of course you do. This is how antiques gain value.

Original Pong - gone but not forgotten. Me too.

A neighbour's widow, years ago, got fed up with a basement full (yes, full) of HO trains - went to the landfill - sickening.

FWIW, some SLR lenses can be re-used on digital bodies, e.g. Pentax K-mount.

Cheers,
Joe

**tea lady** · 20th September 2009, 11:41 PM

I have nothing that should be thrown away. Hubby on the other hand.....

He on the other hand thinks HE has nothing to throw out, and I have all the junk.

Hubby has an old Mac that we have to keep cos he wrote some computer music that can only be played on THAT computer. Doesn't work on up to date models.

**underfoot** · 21st September 2009, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by wheelinround

SLR camera gear tell me more

35mm Nikon gear wheelin,
FM2 body...a bunch of nikkor lenses, including 500mm cat (mirror)
power wind, filters etc etc, (need to check)

**Blueberry** · 21st September 2009, 10:22 PM

I have a large sedan boot totally full of stuffed toys, and i do mean full. My 3 year old is a budding hoarder, so i smuggled around 15% of her toys, the ones that needed to go, out to the car while she was asleep. That was three weeks ago and she had not noticed a thing missing

, because there are sooooooo many toys here that we prob need to get rid of another 4 boot loads!!
BUT.......three weeks on they are still in my boot because i realised that i need to take them to an op shop in another suburb, because if i donate them all locally she will want to buy them all again, lol.

**snapman007** · 21st September 2009, 10:36 PM

I've got a box full of Atari 2600 games & consoles.

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