Dump it !!! .... or maybe chicken out.
Dec 3, 2023 09:53:27 #
So its gifting season, and some of us will also generously gift ourself as well. In many such cases the arrival of a new whizbang machine should spell adios for some seldom used relic that we havent yet kicked to the curb ... "out of kindness I suppose".
Fess up ! Whats your still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around thru benign neglect or chronic procrastination.
I can fess up to six SLRs and a Pocket Zoom, some of them never having seen regular use at all and retired before their first birthday :-(
Okaaay Hawgz ! Step right up and Fess Up ! Itz good for the soul and good for the biome. Time to cleanse your soul and spill your gutz.
Fess up ! Whats your still functional but quite neglected old relic that has just hung around thru benign neglect or chronic procrastination.
I can fess up to six SLRs and a Pocket Zoom, some of them never having seen regular use at all and retired before their first birthday :-(
Okaaay Hawgz ! Step right up and Fess Up ! Itz good for the soul and good for the biome. Time to cleanse your soul and spill your gutz.
Dec 3, 2023 10:22:53 #
I have a lot of stuff that has not seen used in a long time but no I never throw them away unless they break and no longer work.
Dec 3, 2023 10:28:51 #
I graduated from High School in 1960, my parents gave me a Yashica A which I still have and use occasionally..
Dec 3, 2023 10:47:20 #
User ID wrote:
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I have a Argus fixed focus 6x6cm (620 Format) film camera with no readily available film, so I'll never shoot it again. I keep it because it is about the same age as I am and my parents bought it probably to take pictures of me once I was born. Say the last and only connection to but photography and my parents. Also the camera despite its age is in near new condition with an unusable flash bulb accessory! I have no intentions of discarding it.
Dec 3, 2023 11:05:14 #
mindzye
Loc: WV
I have often thought that all this 'stuff' can be handled in an equitable and fair way........
Every Spring and Autumn we have a city wide Garage Sale, where neighborhoods and flea markets are swamped with buyers looking for good deals. Mostly, where you surmise, will be kept as more junk in a few months.
What if we just traded All our junk to our closest neighbor, and down line neighbor gave all their junk to us??
No money needs to change hands, where all will be happy to look at new junk for a time. Maybe we can use some of the stuff, but we all know how junk procreates overnight. So not to worry, whatever is kept will be overshadowed by all the new shtuff that we find we never remembered having.
We will enjoy looking at shtuff we hadn't had before, and know in a year (or season) it will be gone!
to make room for new different shtuff......
Every Spring and Autumn we have a city wide Garage Sale, where neighborhoods and flea markets are swamped with buyers looking for good deals. Mostly, where you surmise, will be kept as more junk in a few months.
What if we just traded All our junk to our closest neighbor, and down line neighbor gave all their junk to us??
No money needs to change hands, where all will be happy to look at new junk for a time. Maybe we can use some of the stuff, but we all know how junk procreates overnight. So not to worry, whatever is kept will be overshadowed by all the new shtuff that we find we never remembered having.
We will enjoy looking at shtuff we hadn't had before, and know in a year (or season) it will be gone!
to make room for new different shtuff......
Dec 3, 2023 11:10:13 #
User ID wrote:
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I have an old flour sifter that sits on the top shelf of a kitchen cabinet. And an Olympus OM-1 film camera that collects dust.
Dec 3, 2023 11:12:11 #
mindzye wrote:
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Kinda like The Truman Show, only different.
Dec 3, 2023 12:08:52 #
Warhorse
Loc: SE Michigan
I have a lot of hobby "stuff" and not just camera's that I play with. My interests in these hobby's come and go, so therefore I tend to keep my stuff.
Dec 3, 2023 12:36:06 #
It’s not particularly old but I don’t see myself ever using it again. It’s my Olympus E-M1X.
Dec 3, 2023 13:26:06 #
I don't have anything that I don't think I'll use again. That's why my cars are parked in the driveway and my garage is full of things I'm sure I'll need someday 
If I can find them.
If I can find them.Dec 3, 2023 13:31:37 #
Bohica
Loc: SE Coast of NC
User ID wrote:
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Minolta SRT101, Nikormat FTN, Nikon F2 and F3, Contessa LK
Dec 3, 2023 13:43:25 #
Dec 3, 2023 15:03:47 #
While I only have 2 ILCs, 1 bridge and 2 pocketables which all get used more or less, I can't explain the old 35mm film cameras I haven't even looked at in decades.
Dec 3, 2023 15:29:12 #
mindzye
Loc: WV
Curmudgeon wrote:
I don't have anything that I don't think I'll use again. That's why my cars are parked in the driveway and my garage is full of things I'm sure I'll need someday If I can find them.
If I can find them.Old fellow once replied, when someone asked him 'Why all the junk'?, "Just gives me more to give away someday"!
Though I don't have a garage now, I Do have a shed from hell....... Whenever my missus sees me going there, she gets the bandages ready...... wishes me well........
btw, stay w/ your beautiful AI images. Always a pleasure.
Dec 3, 2023 16:12:01 #
JamesinSimi wrote:
I graduated from High School in 1960, my parents gave me a Yashica A which I still have and use occasionally..
:-)
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