Keep what you have a personal connection to, you'll never be able to get it back. Not because you'll never be able to afford it, but because it won't exist. I

Keep what you have a personal connection to, you'll never be able to get it back. Not because you'll never be able to afford it, but because it won't exist. I had a C-64 at one point with a disk drive and a bunch of disks. I could buy a C-64 and a drive for it and games for it, but it wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be the disk drive that broke over and over and that I somehow took apart and fixed without knowing anything about how to fix a disk drive. And it wouldn't be the collection of games that I played in 1982, some of which I remember and some of which I've forgotten, and it wouldn't have some of the first software I ever tried to write, or the games I typed in line by line from magazines. And it wouldn't have the games that I would crack so that my name came up as the author on the startup screen. Same thing with the Apple ][ my step-dad had that I used to use. He has no idea where it went, he thought I had it. I could buy an Apple ][ but I can't buy my old Apple ][. I regret losing all of that stuff, computers, books, music, collectibles, any of it that I had a personal connection to. I have no idea what happened to Rosebud. If it's just stuff you bought as part of a collection and you don't really have a connection to it, then don't worry about it. Sell it for what you can get, take half of the proceeds to spend now, throw the other half in the stock market and if you want to build a collection again 20 years from now you'll have some cash.