A copy of this article should be kept to show any wife or mom who wants to toss out those precious items they consider junk.
I don't want to start a series of rants on this, but how many of us owned stuff as a kid that would now be worth serious money?
Amen.
Let this be a lesson to all the nagging women out there that "demand" that their men throw things away.
auntdot sez:
A copy of this article should be kept to show any wife or mom who wants to toss out those precious items they consider junk.
I don't want to start a series of rants on this, but how many of us owned stuff as a kid that would now be worth serious money?
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It would only be worth serious money because MOST people DID throw their "stuff" away. No difference in this case, either. Most people (and institutions, apparently) tossed, or lost to theft, this particular issue of a techie journal. So the owner of the rare surviving copy makes a bundle.
The value is in the rarity, and current interest. Nothing else.
I call this the Memorabilia Paradox. Memorabilia is only worth serious money, because so many people threw most of it away years ago. If every kid had saved every baseball card they ever had, old baseball cards would be as common as dirt.
Look at it this way: by throwing all that stuff out, the moms/wives of the world are doing their part to ensure that a robust and thriving market in memorabilia exists today. Thus, it's their duty to throw stuff out!