my husband is making me go through my stuff and throw out what I don't need anymore but I'm really conflicted. some of it I can give to local retro shops, like my spare genesises and psxs, but some of it I've only kept for parts like broken apple iis and 1541s and are really of no interest or use to anyone locally. I could maybe put it up on ebay for parts but I don't want to because that's a hassle and I need this stuff gone asap. but at the same time I know this stuff isn't made anymore and parts will only continue to dwindle going forward and I'd feel guilty contributing to that

help?

>>11843149 (OP)
Leave your husband and marry me. I'll take care of your stuff. Not you though, figure your own life out.

>>11843156
OP is a dude.

Find a new husband. Mine thinks all of my dumb nerd stuff is cute :^)

>>11843160
And? I'll marry a dude if it gives me a huge collection.

>>11843162
it's not that big or valuable. maybe the world doesn't need a few more broken virtual boys or atari 810s?

>my husband
Stop stabbing some poofter's cornhole gridswald

ITT: Things that never happened

>>11843183
It happened. I need advice

Give it to a charity shop and let them deal with it.

>>11843186
imo you can use the Marie Kondo method with objects of infatuation like this. If you can touch it, look at it, etc, and it makes you happy to do, it's probably worth keeping. That could change in the future, but right now there will likely be some stuff you have that's just stuff. Also, you could try Facebook marketplace and give it away as a lot. If you don't have any luck with that, donate, or ultimately, dump it.

stop being a gay and get off the dope

>>11843207
I'm not personally attached to a lot of this stuff, I just don't want to utterly trash it since I know well that someone somewhere will need it eventually

>>11843218
eBay auction with no reserve price. If you want it gone even faster than that, offer it for free on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, etc. You don't even have to ship it if you go that route.

>>11843149 (OP)
Stop being gay and kick that faggot out of your house. Find a woman.

>>11843225
I feel bed about throwing stuff away but I don't know if I feel bad enough to bother with ebay. a lot of this shit is heavy and would cost a lot to ship.

>>11843149 (OP)
>giving shit to resellers
more embarrassing than buying overpriced plastic from these shitbags

>>11843239
yeah they're scum but it seems better than throwing them away

>>11843229
call up the nearest fixed rate arcade and see if they're interested in your junk, surely there's some geek like the 8bit geek that'll take it all and put it to good use

>>11843249
I can give it a shot but I anticipate 0 local interest. I live in the worst place possible for retro collecting.

>>11843226
>Find a woman.
Why are you trying to ruin his happiness?

>>11843934
Misery loves company.

>>11843257
look if you can't be bothered to make individual listings then just make a huge list and make one local listing ad for whatever price apiece. you spent the time accumilating, spend the time to get rid of what you dont want. maybe get an adhd prescription if you can't physically bring yourself to do that, executive dysfunction is no joke and this problem is only a symptom of that

>>11843149 (OP)
I went to an auction place and stuff like you described had a heap of bids. If you put them on ebay I think put them in bundles like try have enough parts for a complete 1541 since people generally don't want more than 1 or a genesis with controller, av cable and game.
Maybe see if there is a local retro club around.

>>11843170
The less valuable stuff is the most important to save, these things will never ever be made again. It will be very few years before a genesis console itself is worth more than the current $1000 phone, we should be a less wasteful society.

>>11843149 (OP)
i mean i'll take a spare model 1 if you have one, aslong as it's not bricked

If ur in the south ill take ur donations.

bump

>>11843149 (OP)
>genesises
the plural is geneses

>>11843149 (OP)
Tell them that it's valuable to collectors and that you need to wait many more years before selling it for maximum profit.

>>11843161
Is your husband half black and always smells like garlic if he doesn't coat himself in deodorant?

>>11845947
No. He's an old white guy.

>>11843229
eBay does not require shipping, I think. You can list your stuff for "local pickup" or some such, meaning that buyers will know they'll have to drive over and handle the stuff themselves. Seems relatively hassle-free, if you actually got a buyer. And if you didn't then you'd only have lost the time spent on taking a few photos and typing up a description.

So take your photos, type your description, and then post them together in any online venues you can come up with, offering to give the stuff away for free to anybody willing to come for it. Facebook or Craigslist might work. The nearest large city's subreddit might host a few greasy, lumpy manchildren who would be willing to give your stuff a good home.

Also...
>my husband is making me
No he isn't. You're doing it yourself. You're the one cleaning up your excessive mess that he rightly wanted gone and/or capitulating to an abuser who is cruelly trying to steal away your toys, as the case may be.

>>11845929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpoUuKFOY

>>11843149 (OP)
>apple iis .. no interest or use to anyone locally
fuck those uncultured swine. ill take them

>>11846029

>No he isn't. You're doing it yourself. You're the one cleaning up your excessive mess that he rightly wanted gone and/or capitulating to an abuser who is cruelly trying to steal away your toys, as the case may be.

most likely OP is a hoarder and his manwife is tired of having several rooms blocked off by random shit.

>>11847801
>most likely OP
implying manwives and husbandwomen...whatever the fuck that means...can't be cruel abusers...
>>11843934
>answering to still visible (dead)
amazing there's still mods that don't understand how 4chan X works.

>>11843149 (OP)
>Arcade era (1970s to mid 1990s): "Arcade cabinets are bleeding edge tech. So awesome!"

>Console era (1999 to 2010): "Arcade cabinets are old outdated garbage. Go buy an Xbox or Playstation."

>Smart Phone Era (2010 to 2020): "i consoles are such a hassle. Mobile phones are so much more convenient. I can play anywhere!"

>Modern era (2020 to today): "I miss this old arcade cabinets I played as a kid. I wonder if any are still around?"


Funny how the world works.

>>11847841
>implying
holy shit, stop projecting.

>>11845957
based fellow gerontophile

>>11843162
anon pls get a job

>>11849171
NEETs and retirees were made for each other. I thank god every day for making me this way :^)

>>11843149 (OP)
>my husband
huh? you gay mate?

>>11845957
This guy is old, like 39 or 40. He's half black but he looks more Greek or Italian, real pale for how dark his dad is. Anyway that guy is married to a guy that I'm 100% sure posts on /vr/

>>11851745
Yeah, not us. I'm in my late twenties, he's in his early sixties, and we're both unmistakably white. Sorry to have gotten your hopes up :^(

>>11851620
Vile, hope you're immunized at least
>captcha 8J88S

>>11851717
yes

>>11851757
>Yeah, not us. I'm in my late twenties, he's in his early sixties,
How did you two meet?
What attracts you to someone older than your own parents?

>>11852214
I don't think about my parents when it comes to adult relationships.

If a person is hot, then they are hot.

Do you seriously think about your parents? Why? That's gross anon.

>>11843149 (OP)
is there anything non-retro vidya related you could throw out instead?

i'm anti-stuff, i hate clutter and grew up with hoarders so it actually affects my mental health significantly, however i also understand where you're coming from because scalpers have made this shit 5000% more expensive the last 10-15 years. if it doesn't take up too much space, and you're savy enough to use the spare parts if shit breaks, i would keep the retro vidya consoles and games.

really though, you should be emulating instead

>>11852214
>How did you two meet?
He posted an uncharacteristically earnest Craigslist personal ad back when those still existed.

>What attracts you to someone older than your own parents?
It's hard to say. I've been exclusively attracted to guys ~50 and older since I first developed a functioning libido, more or less. It's just sort of my normal. I like gray hair, beards, bellies, body hair, male pattern baldness, and wrinkly faces, and I like having someone more experienced to learn from, lean on, and defer to. I don't really know why. I just do. There's a few other pluses I've noticed after having actually been in a relationship for around seven years now. 1) The area I was raised in was exceptionally intolerant given the decade. For most guys my age, the idea of being physically attacked for being gay is totally foreign to them. It means a lot that he intuitively gets the lifelong hangups that sort of upbringing can leave you with. That made it a bit easier for us to bond, I think. 2) Our interests are pretty aligned. My favorite TV show is MASH. My favorite (English) film is Midnight Cowboy. My favorite (English) musician is Lou Reed. It's really easy to talk to him about most of the things I'm interested in. (Except video games. Very sad). I can't really say the same about people my own age. 3) It's really, really, really nice being with someone who is 'done'. There's no tension between our future and his career, since he doesn't have one anymore. There's no tension between me and his personal growth, since he pretty much had himself figured out before I was even born. It's great.

I'm sure there's more, but I think that's probably enough emotional vulnerability given to a question that was most likely asked in bad faith given where we're posting.

Also, for the record, my father is older than my husband :^)

>>11852292
based minimalist bro. everything i care about can fit into a plastic bin and i'm okay with that.

>>11852650
Are you single or a pedophile?

>>11852641
>The area I was raised in was exceptionally intolerant given the decade. For most guys my age, the idea of being physically attacked for being gay is totally foreign to them.
Are you Slavic?

>>11843149 (OP)
Put it all on facebook marketplace for free. Also your husband shouldn't tell you what to do.

>>11853484
Nyet, American. I grew up in a tiny little farming town. About a third of my classmates were utterly deranged anchor babies and my school was (mostly) staffed by rather conservative religious types who were (mostly) willing to turn a blind eye to whatever happened to me. It wasn't very fun.

>>11853756
Why did you go around telling everyone at school that you're a homo? Also, aren't rural farming towns almost entirely white?

>>11854193
>Why did you go around telling everyone at school that you're a homo?
I was outed by a close friend.

>Also, aren't rural farming towns almost entirely white?
No. 63% of US farm laborers are Hispanic. The "Mexican farmer" stereotype doesn't come from nowhere.

>>11854234
So what happened, if you're comfortable sharing? Are we talking taunting/threats, getting shoved around/things thrown at you, full-blown beatdowns?

>>11854284
The day to day was mostly name calling and minor physical stuff. Random one-off kicks, punches, and shoves. I had to quit wearing shorts because they really liked to rip out my leg hair for whatever reason. Eventually I became extremely jumpy, which was sort of a godsend because they found making me flinch to be about as entertaining as actually hitting me. I was groped as a "joke" at least twice that I can remember. I was properly beat up only four times, and the only thing that left any permanent physical damage was having my head slammed against a brick wall (seriously messed with the vision in my right eye).

As far as non-physical stuff is concerned, my school was really strict about swearing, which I guess included slurs. So, usually, if I was being called a faggot, it was whispered. Except in the lunch room, where it sort of just got lost in the noise. Only one death threat. Didn't take it seriously at all. Obviously nothing came of it. I also had quite a bit of stuff stolen.

I'd say they got in trouble less than 10% of the time. The kid who slammed my head into the wall was the only one who was seriously punished, since a teacher actually witnessed it. He was expelled. My school had a bizarre policy where all parties involved in anything deemed to be a "fight" were punished equally. I learned that after reporting the kids who jumped me the first time. Didn't matter that I didn't start it. Didn't matter that there was two of them and one of me. Didn't matter that I didn't fight back. Still got suspended. Never reported any of the other incidents.

It sucked. Quit going to school when I was 15 and spent the rest of my adolescence as a shut-in.

>>11852207
fag

>>11843149 (OP)
OP is a fag, but never get in a relationship where your significant other tells you to throw away things you care about.