My dad once threw out an old dresser I had full of various discs when I moved in with him. Most of the discs were useless fortunately, though I do recall there being a copy of Win95 OSR2 and an original set of installation floppies for Syndicate. 🙁 I also lost a whole bunch of Apple II floppies and a stereo sound card for my IIGS.

Man, that sucks big time.

I hate moving. Every time I did though, it involved some amount of alcohol to keep me sane and on task. The drawback is that you might not necessarily remember where you put what 😉

I somehow misplaced two backup CDs during my move and can't find them. They're most likely sitting in one of the many boxes I haven't opened due to those boxes not containing anything important for me to do my webshow or make games or such, but it's still odd that out of hundreds of CDs, those are the only two missing. :P

What really sucks is if you live in a country where vintage parts are hard to come by in the first place. For someone in the US or Canada the parts may be easy to replace, elsewhere it may not be so easy. Just a few parts missing may represent years of searching gone.

I just moved all my personal belongings to China. Despite getting screwed on the cost of shipping, everything arrived and nothing was damaged (I packed, loaded, unloaded and unpacked myself). Even my CRTs made it.

I'm going to be moving in the next month or so here and I'm worried about all that myself.

I intend to separate out all of the hardware and games and such and seal them up in very well marked boxes with a running box count on each to make sure I have the same number of marked boxes when I get to the new place as when I left the old.

I've lost or misplaced so much stuff moving over the years that I'm real tired of having to replace everything.

My cousin took my original Sound Blaster 32 PnP Installation Disks from the SB32PnP box from my home, while I was abroad studying, and he lost them! (17 or 18 years ago)

He did replace with a drivers collection CD (which contains drivers for many sound cards, cd-rom drives, graphics cards, etc.), but I still miss those original floppy disks... 😢

Items like that go with me personally in a move. Can't stand the thought of losing the items that took me ages to get in the first place.

Of course, the more parts you have sitting around, the less likely it is that you are ever going to use most of those parts again.

"But even if I can't use them, I can still sell them so someone else can!" is one possible response. To which I might reply, how likely it is that you were ever going to get around to selling them, given the hassles involved and low demand/profit margins?

Jorpho wrote:

Of course, the more parts you have sitting around, the less likely it is that you are ever going to use most of those parts again.

"But even if I can't use them, I can still sell them so someone else can!" is one possible response. To which I might reply, how likely it is that you were ever going to get around to selling them, given the hassles involved and low demand/profit margins?

Which is why I have what I like to call a "functional" collection, in that I only collect stuff I intend to use. If I don't intend to use something anymore, even just briefly, I get rid of it in some manner, either throwing it away if it's broken or near/broken, giving it away if I know someone who could make use of it, or selling it if it's worth more than just a few dollars. This is also why I typically don't collect bad games, save for very few which are nostalgic to me and I like playing every once in a blue moon just because of that factor alone. :)

I don't even have to move to lose things. And I do use almost everything I own, eventually. Things get lost in the churn. Though if I moved, I'd probably sell a lot of stuff beforehand, just to not have to deal as much.

The cards showed up again 😀

Found a box in between all my discs