Damn! Somehow you got me :)

You know what I found is really useless (aka I regret collecting)? Coins & bills
As I said earlier I am a total wannabe, so I did not keep a lot of coins & bills of my period,
but not being rich/wealthy/from_a_royal_family those few really meant some sacrifize
that at the end did not pay off because they lost their money value after years...
My own lesson learned: F*ck off to appraise the art/style/commemorative stuff on coins & bills and stupidly collecting them!
Let that being done by the rich/wealthy/royal_families, from my side I will squeeze their money value while it worths, beauty or not!

I consider nice you have the collecting hobby while keeping it under control and without causing tangible conflicts: Justify somehow the time/effort/money invested
Perhaps I would play the devils advocate asking your consideration to spend some time to donate/pass the collection to someone that value it.

I barely glanced your thread and find it interesting, if you allow me, some questions:
After these years, have you found the void/why?
How do you reconcile/manage the recent years spree of free games? Do you accept those, have an impact on the vgames purchasing addiction?
What do you think about letting your grand/kids enjoy your collection? (legal ownership crap aside but under its boundaries)
If were possible to re-sell your games: would that be a relief to the affliction?
I don't want to derail the OP, if you consider this must be talked in your thread, please let me know.
Just keep in mind this days necro is subject to a ban due the fickle very subjective moderators criteria... [(LOL)]

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.

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.