Luckily I still have my gaming magazine collection! I realized early on that reading old gaming magazines are a lot of fun, so I most likely won't ever throw it away.

When last I moved. I was going through old camping gear and had to throw away $1500 of equipment due to mold.

Most of which were new, as they were my backups. That was painful. Only good thing was they were in sealed tote containers. So the nasty sh!t didnt spread.

when i moved to a different country, yes. Now I am glad I have only difgital games, much easier to move.

Throw away? No. Firesale? Yes.

Moving 1300 mi away to a place we weren't quite sure where we'd end up.

Glad for a digital collection now; shame that Nintendo won't see a penny.

Ugh, don't remind me. Nearly eighty kilos of toy crap and eight shelves full of books and magazines I threw out without regret early on, but some later losses weren't so pleasant. 269 different coins and tokens and some repeats for trading, though only four were of any real value. About three thousand painted war-gaming figurines, predominantly metal Citadel's Warhammer, but also some plastic Technolog and Zvezda's. Three hundred PVC and resin statuettes, fifth of them hand-painted. Couple of shelves-worth of de-boxed disks and one shelf of deluxe videogame boxes. Still wish I could keep some of that, but I got over most of it by now.
...if one can count registering on GOG and tracking down certain goods at auctions as getting over, rather than a relapse. Collecting hobby is hoarding in its purest form, aye. I have enjoyed kitbashing those figurines and painting them, and tabletop can be more fun than a computer game, and sure you could say it's a pointless activity as well, but then, so are computer games and bonsai. Lacking a practical purpose doesn't mean it isn't pleasant.

Isn't this known as cleaning your home/room???

well using them is a practical purpose , just hoarding them thinking "sometime ill use them" is not, like i bet 99,99% of those vhs casettes wont be ever watched again

Point. But even so, "it'll look great on the shelf" was enough a reason for me. As for others, whatever makes them happy, as long as they aren't turning their house into a noxious landfill.

Not yet. I will never throw away my physical game library, which contains a ton of games. On the contrary, I still expand it somewhat regularly, although I only buy games that are somewhat relevant to me. I don't jump at any and all boxes I stumble upon. I'm not doing it just to collect random games but because I value a physical game much more than anything digital.

Space was never an issue for me (luckily).

On "throw away", I would hope you find better things to do -- give or sell to someone else who values them still, or recycle if appropriate, etc.

I had piles of National Geographic magazines, pretty solid through 70s-2010s. I'd read most of them to some degree, and photography was great, etc. But they took up a lot of space. I also had extra emotional connection to them since my grandfather had kept me up on a subscription through my teens until his passing.

But I have, though with less regret. I'm in a neighborhood "Buy Nothing" (basically 'regift stuff you're not using') group, and someone asked for magazines, specifically calling out NatGeo, for some collage art projects. I responded I had a bunch and split them up between a couple of artists who had good use for them.

It was also easier to give it up since Fox acquird the National Geographic media/publishing branch and immediately shifted it for the worse. And the easy-access to the archives that the Internet brought. I wonder if my DVD set of "all issues from the first through 2008" still works on modern OSes?

I'm at a similar juncture for another set of magazines. No Quarter magazine had content for the Iron Kingdoms setting/RPG [which I was quite fond of for a while, playing it for a few years, etc], and other stuff Privateer Press made. I want to find it a good home, but haven't yet. Maybe soon, since they've just revamped the setting for D&D 5th Edition [blargh!] and it might get new fans who want the history of the setting. This one's only... maybe two feet? of shelf space. Unlike NatGeo that was an entire closet.

On the flip side, I'm glad I upgraded my furniture in my living room to have some room to display some of my LEGO collection. (I really had crap furniture before.) I don't see the LEGO going away, they bring me great joy for 30+ years.

I never had a serious collection of boxed videogames, but at some point I got rid of a bunch of retail copies gathering dust on my shelves by just giving them away. Many years ago, I even sent a package to a fellow GOGlodyte who was still interested in them, but most I gave to people in my city who responded to an ad on ebay or something like that. And I thought that was fun actually, seeing who would show up in RL with an interest in free old videogames. ;)

It's definitely nice to make even small connections with our fellow person. I gave away some home furnishings I wasn't using anymore, and a young couple that had just moved out on their own together was very appreciative of some of it! I also have a carpet steamer that I keep circulating to people who need to borrow one. Why buy or rent one, when we can have one "as a neighborhood" to share? You don't need to steam your floors that often...

Throw away? No. Sell? Yes. I seriously despise unnecessarily clutter, so if there's something I haven't touched in years away it goes! That's why I appreciate digital game libraries: I can collect to my heart's content without the mess.

Yes. Several times, actually.