Three years ago I was moving out of my old house and during packing I realised I can't take my old gaming magazine collection with me (There was just to much of it, like 10 years, 400+ issues).

After giving it some thought I decided to throw them away. My thought process was that they basically just take up space and I don't read them that much (Usually had like four out side the pile as they had some really good articles that I liked to re read).

Skip to today and feel so much guilt for getting rid of all those magazines. Partly do to good memories they hold and the collectors value they had. They where mostly CD-Action magazine issues. The oldest still running Polish gaming magazines.

Did anybody here had this kind of situation happened to them?

yes and pretty recently, although it wasn't so much "throw away" as it was more "give away" with my blu ray discs (I was a physical media enthusiast) and my comic books, as I don't have people that can help me move across states in short pieces of time. I love my job and it pays decent but trying to get living arrangements under $1000 in some states is almost impossible. I hope one day to possibly regain them but it's not the end of the world if I don't, I suppose.

Yes and no. There was a time when I recorded all kinds of movies from TV on VCR, amassing a big collection of classics and indie rarities. It got a bit out of hand, because I didn't manage to actually watch as much as I recorded, so in the end I still had lots of unwatched movies, when I decided to get rid of most of the collection, because the cassettes took away too much space and I realized I was unlikely to still watch them anyway, due to other interests, decreasing quality, and the new possibilities of getting movies on DVD, and later HD streaming etc.

So on the one hand, it felt like a big waste, on the other hand, I don't question the decision from today's perspective. I'm pretty sure I would never have touched them again. I kept a few select cassettes and they just gathered more dust.

Absolutely (if you allow me to stretch the -collection- term to the cheap): Then mix limited resources (space mostly) + some relocations + the enjoyment of keeping stuff :)

Comics when I was a child, some stamps albums, cards, a small batch of He-Man toys (including both castles), piles of CD's... man! is just sad to remember!... Old PC parts, old PC manuals & books, magazines, bulky old computers...

Not yet but under the spotlight: Piles of DVD's, school notebooks & books, a more recent but dated batch of -PC parts- & -bulky PCs-...

The guilt feeling you talk now appears here and I think is much better for me to stop thinking about this topic and those missing materials...

I really wish I would have a lot of properties to fill!
Until then I would consider myself a serious collector, meanwhile I guess I am a wannabe :)

Yes, went through a very similar experience, if not identical. I do not know if I had 400+ issues, but I was close to that number anyway, much more than I could carry around.

I can't say I feel guilty I tossed them, because there's just no way I could have moved around with them in tow and most of the information they covered was outdated anyway. Beside serving as a nostalgia booster if I ever had time to go through them again, they were really just dead weight, as sad as that is.

There's a beginning and an end to everything, and magazine collections only ever mean anything to you (and maybe other people of your age with the same interest, at best) - you can't leave them to your kids unless they're maybe worth something, like comics. Might as well deal with them before life deals with you, my two cents.

That being said, I've kept a few of the early ones and still have them to this day. They're there if I ever need a trip down memory lane.

A respectable point of view but I say collection is not necessarily a synonym of quantity.
I give more attention to aspects like care, knowledge & personal valuation to denominate something a collection, more than the plain number of items it has.
May I sound silly if I tell I have just 3 guitars in my collection? To me each one has a special justified place in there and great personal value despite the commercial one :)

Mmm... i remember being 6-7 and my dad had stacks and stacks of Atari magazines.

Now that i'm older i really wish i could have read through them, maybe typed in said programs of missing ones that aren't avaliable yet.

at least those you still use and dont just put into a box to take up space , right?:P
if you use them they are not useless
ops magazines are useless nobody would read em anyway

Sad, but true. I've been guilty of that for many years. I have purged my home over the last few years and feel a lot better.

I regularly throw old stuff away and never feel guilty about it.

Things, which were important to me some time ago, have little value now. But they take up space and collect dust.

Life is going on, and I feel its progression in such moments. It's like a level up.)

As a kid, I enjoyed collecting the lids of those little coffee cream cups, neatly organized in clear plastic protector sheets of the type one uses for coin and stamp collections. If you're not from Switzerland, you might not be aware that coffee cream lid collecting is an actual serious hobby. Completing a series always felt very satisfying, and with motifs like birds or flowers you could actually learn something useful from those references, and in a relaxed way - that was pre internet.
Years later, I threw it all away during a frantic "clean your room" rampage. No regrets, just a little pang of nostalgia when I think about it.

For the last 15+ years, I've ben collecting yogurt cups. Why I don't know. Only collecting cups from plain organic yohurt, separated by brands. Have thought about getting rid of my huge collection but it's too epic to just throw away without finding out what the point of it all was. Just like life.

Nowadays I'm collecting swords, mainly steel but also synthetic/wood etc. All for practical use, no decorative wall hangers.
The rate at which I'm buying new swords is alarming and will probably bankrupt me. Even though I've managed to put a stop to my game purchasing addiction, I'm obviously not out of the woods. But this time it's different: Of the several hundred games I own, many are still unplayed but none of my swords are unused. Even the Iberian Montante has seen action. This is the way I should treat my game collection. As for the yogurt collection, no idea.

I've thrown book collections out before, but either because I grew out of them, or the pages got so yellowed they simply were nolonger worth keeping anymore.

But I don't really regret doing it. It's all gone. Worrying about things beyond your control is wasted energy.

Actually thinking about it, does separating from someone and leaving a bunch of stuff behind count?

A few dozen movies, a bunch of games, a LOT of D&D stuff... yeah i guess that counts...

Not counting when my mom made me throw away our video games being 'too violent' including a collector's edition of Diablo 2...

I've done it many times. I highly recommend it. Fresh new starts.

It hurts a bit, but the rewards are great. No more moving it, no more mental energy on it, and good clarity. But it is nice to revisit sometimes.