GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!!

[bonehead]

Just started sorting through my garage and found my box of Sinclair user magazines.
Pretty sore I had the complete collection. The whole entire box is soaking wet and ruined.

I am so gutted, I have kept these mint from the day they came out. Managed to save around 10 the rest are a big black slimy mess in the recycling bin.

This has pissed me off beyond belief.
I know you can get them online but it’s not the same.

My enthusiasm is slowly slipping away with all this stuff now. One bit of advice to anyone is only keep what you want to use and cherish it.
Do Not under any circumstances hord stuff as it only get ruined!!!!

 

[Nes4life]

 

[Bensonrad]

Gutted to hear that dude, I am struggling to home my massive magazine collection, my wife said today, when you actually finish building your game room will you take all these out of our bedroom/under the stairs/out of wardrobes and put them out there. The very above is my fear of putting magazines outside in storage. I do often think though, I never actually look at them and always say one day I'll sit down and read them, but the more I think about it, is it ever going to happen.

 

[Neokidgeo]

And there was me pissed off all the staples in my crash mags had rusted. Feel for ya.

 

[aeroflott]

Bad luck Steve. Nowt worse than a mans gear getting messed up.

 

[bbz149]

Not good m8. I feel for you and would really p155 me off too!!

 

[joe34]

sorry to hear dude

ps. long live speccy

 

[bonehead]

Speccy rules.

Just need to find some more copies I guess.

 

[whitecomet]

I do question my magazines... I'm about 10 issues of a full Nintendo set starting from when they split from Mean Machines up to the stop production. I do wonder that the amount of space and weight they take why have I keep them?!?! haha

 

[RygarR]

Oh no! I can imagine that must have been a blow. You're probably right about hoarding stuff though. Keep the things you actually use, and maybe a few special examples. But unless you've got a climate controlled warehouse, maybe sitting on tonnes of mementos is inviting the inevitable. If anyone does want to keep mags though, here's my top tip: don't keep them stacked vertically, even if they're sealed in waterproof bags. I did this with some comics I've had since the 80s,and the pressure / gravity caused large blocks of ink to transfer onto facing pages. It was a exercise in futility...

Just started sorting through my garage and found my box of Sinclair user magazines.
Pretty sore I had the complete collection. The whole entire box is soaking wet and ruined.

I am so gutted, I have kept these mint from the day they came out. Managed to save around 10 the rest are a big black slimy mess in the recycling bin.

This has pissed me off beyond belief.
I know you can get them online but it’s not the same.

My enthusiasm is slowly slipping away with all this stuff now. One bit of advice to anyone is only keep what you want to use and cherish it.
Do Not under any circumstances hord stuff as it only get ruined!!!!

 

[t-m]

Gutted is the right word for that

I had a clear out of mags a few years ago, got rid of everything except copies of Your Sinclair, I should really get them out and have a flick through.

 

[Sinisteve]

Awful news steve

 

[Bods]

I hadn't noticed my toilet cistern leaking, came through the old kitchen ceiling and of all stuff had to drip all over the commodore tapes, manuals etc I was sorting out, trying to dry out Last Ninja, Op Wolf covers etc wasn't enjoyable so know where your coming from

Gotta be careful these days with these flash floods too, so many people getting flooded that haven't ever before, could have some serious collectables from the 80s ruined if it's downstairs, and I would be pretty screwed if lighting struck my roof, 1000's of DVD's, Commodore Original games, Laserdiscs, Zzap magazine collection could be all trashed, having seen some peoples house roofs in the last storms it's possible, just hope never have bad luck like it

Any vintage stuff getting trashed is sad news

 

[john]

Many years ago I had a small leak in my roof, I had my Atari ST boxed up and sitting on the tie between the rafters. Of course the usual with leaks is that you dont know about it till weeks or months later when you go up in the loft for something. The ST box was sodden and had a small puddle on it, it had ran off the box onto my Atari Jaguar and then into my Sega Saturn games. The ST was buggered, the Jaguar was bone dry but the outer box was gubbed but the really annoying thing was my Saturn Guardian heroes was wrecked. I had bought that on release and liked it and was one of the ones that you know would always be a keeper.. We had to get the roof redone at a few thousand but the loss of 'my stuff' annoyed me more.
Strange thing is I had bought Edge magazine since it came out and had boxes of them, when we had to move to a bigger property the van was full, our car was packed solid and the new owners were waiting in their car for us to hand over the keys and technically as the contracts exchanged it was their house, i made the decision to dump a box of them and felt nothing probably due to getting sick of Edge towards me ending my subscription.

 

[TonyElyod]

I stored my Collection of EDGE Magazines from Launch in plastic sealed containers..
The Launch issue had a Free Chocolate bar ..so I kept that issue in its cellophane wrapper..

Having just recently moved I came across the boxes..

Looks like a fookin Mouse enjoyed my Choccy..

Gnawed thru the Boxes too..!!

LITTLE FECKER..!!

GAME ON................!!

TonyElyod2018-06-11 20:53:51

 

[Rog69]

I lost a ton of early 2000AD and other comics to mice, little sods must have shredded them for nesting material. My mum had moved them into the shed without telling me, the ones that didn't get chewed up were trashed due to the damp in there anyway.

 

[karlcdoe]

My enthusiasm is slowly slipping away with all this stuff now. One bit of advice to anyone is only keep what you want to use and cherish it.

Do Not under any circumstances hord stuff as it only get ruined!!!!

Bummer.

Still, best not to regret things too much with hobbies. I've kept things in relatively luxurious surroundings that have fallen prey to vermin, unexpected leaks, etc and equally have found things left in the most unlilkely places, semi open to the elements, etc that have survived in good order. Living in the UK is a bad start owing to our climate but at least I'm not too worried about losing everything in a 'quake or something

Re: hoarding I'm tempted to say "yeah, you're right, gimmie all your stuff" But bashing people for keeping 'cool' junk is a recent TV fashion so I'm inclined to disagree and say unless you can find a very caring home with someone else for this stuff it'd probably have ended up in the bin decades ago.

Eg, I nearly sold cheap/junked a selection of fuel pumps for a Triumph PI a few months ago and then suddenly needed them to fix the headlamp lift motor on a car after the permanent magnet disintegrated, jammed the motor windings and swiftly cooked them - now that is an obscure fault methinks....