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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5436605" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I can certainly understand your venting and don't discount it in the slightest. But as far as your suggestions, I didn't have any relatives / young friends who wanted them... and my nearest FLGS already had copies of all these books on their shelves. I also didn't want to go through the hassle of selling them, because at the time (we're talking late 80s for my 1E stuff, mid '90s for my 2E) Ebay / Craigslist were either not invented or not a 'first-thought' idea like they would be now.</p><p></p><p>But I think the biggest reason why I was able to toss them without really worrying about it was just simply that they were just... things. Objects. And it's not the physical objects that hold any deep meaning or feeling for me, but the <em>memories</em> I have of playing them. So the same way I might toss out an old shirt, or dump a heap of VHS cassette tapes, or purge my filing cabinet of old written material like bad song lyrics I wrote years ago to pass the time... at some point they just become 'stuff'. And once you realize you haven't touched (let alone looked at) something for over 7 - 10 years... the need to keep it (at least for me) has slipped away.</p><p></p><p>I know it's an anathema to some people and I don't blame them for not sharing my thoughts on the matter in the slightest... but for me... at a certain point what was once a 'memento' turns into 'junk'. The memory is important. The object no longer is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 5436605, member: 7006"] I can certainly understand your venting and don't discount it in the slightest. But as far as your suggestions, I didn't have any relatives / young friends who wanted them... and my nearest FLGS already had copies of all these books on their shelves. I also didn't want to go through the hassle of selling them, because at the time (we're talking late 80s for my 1E stuff, mid '90s for my 2E) Ebay / Craigslist were either not invented or not a 'first-thought' idea like they would be now. But I think the biggest reason why I was able to toss them without really worrying about it was just simply that they were just... things. Objects. And it's not the physical objects that hold any deep meaning or feeling for me, but the [I]memories[/I] I have of playing them. So the same way I might toss out an old shirt, or dump a heap of VHS cassette tapes, or purge my filing cabinet of old written material like bad song lyrics I wrote years ago to pass the time... at some point they just become 'stuff'. And once you realize you haven't touched (let alone looked at) something for over 7 - 10 years... the need to keep it (at least for me) has slipped away. I know it's an anathema to some people and I don't blame them for not sharing my thoughts on the matter in the slightest... but for me... at a certain point what was once a 'memento' turns into 'junk'. The memory is important. The object no longer is. [/QUOTE]
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