The thread about Walkmans prompted me to open this thread.
Do you ever think it might have been a good idea to own a warehouse and as times move on store items that may be of value for your future generations?
My warehouse would contain:
1 car......................Austin 8
3 motorbikes............James 125, Sunbeam, BSA Gold Star and a Norvin
3 Record players.......HMV wind up with horn, Decca wind up, box with metal records
A hornby dublo train set
Vinyl records which played at 16 revs per minute
Winkle pickers
Chelsea boots
Dinky toys
Tin soldiers
Comics
Grundig tape recorder
Freemasonry kits
Army gear...............billy can, gas mask, webbing and cap badges, side arms (my Dad handed it in after a while)
Zeiss Icon camera with a concertina lens
Old coins and notes
Handbag .22 gun
Winchester air rifle
Miniature working steam engine
Small diesel engine for model aircraft
Mill shuttles and bobbings
Mangles and flat irons
Victorian chimney pots (my father in Law at the time was a builder and kept everything. When he died I dumped the lot)
Rocking horse
1953 TV
Well that's a start
What have you chucked that may be valuable in years to come?
What have you chucked that may be valuable in years to come?
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
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Re: What have you chucked that may be valuable in years to c
Bayko Set.
Platform boots.
Afghan coat.
Fred the Flour Grader.
Had to stop me Mam chucking out her Tetley Tea Folk not long ago but to be honest a lot of stuff has to be in pristine condition to be worth keeping. Coins fetch next to nothing in the UK unless bought and kept as mint. Same goes for comics and Hornby/Meccano etc.
Vintage clothing is on the up - and larva lamps! But EBay seems to have devalued stuff a lot.
Keep things because you like them is the way I work now - regardless of potential value. I salvage old chimney pots whenever for the garden - and Belfast sinks. Reclaimed building materials/tiles/grates/staircases etc are a good bet these days and are an exception to the 'pristine' rule.
Platform boots.
Afghan coat.
Fred the Flour Grader.
Had to stop me Mam chucking out her Tetley Tea Folk not long ago but to be honest a lot of stuff has to be in pristine condition to be worth keeping. Coins fetch next to nothing in the UK unless bought and kept as mint. Same goes for comics and Hornby/Meccano etc.
Vintage clothing is on the up - and larva lamps! But EBay seems to have devalued stuff a lot.
Keep things because you like them is the way I work now - regardless of potential value. I salvage old chimney pots whenever for the garden - and Belfast sinks. Reclaimed building materials/tiles/grates/staircases etc are a good bet these days and are an exception to the 'pristine' rule.
A sprout is for life - not just for Christmas.
Re: What have you chucked that may be valuable in years to c
Not me, my Mom. Three shoe boxes full of mint condition 1950's and early 1960's Major League Baseball cards, dozens of which are now selling in the thousands of $, EACH!. 
While I was away overseas with the military. 
Pete 
While I was away overseas with the military. Pete Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source
Re: What have you chucked that may be valuable in years to c
My girlfriend 
Her old man is very rich, worth a few million GBP.
Hence the reason I am coming over in December to drown my sorrows
Her old man is very rich, worth a few million GBP.
Hence the reason I am coming over in December to drown my sorrows
The only things I regret are the things I didn't do