I lost half of my lifetime things

You lost half of your lifetime things?
Did thanos snap them?
I feel bad for ya

@TimPV3 Is that is an Action Bastard reference my man?
@MicmasH_Wii Yeah you can share some stuff with me. I dabbled in instruments here and there but I never really learned how to "play" any of them.
@MythicalData True, I have started many a gaming project. The farthest I got was a demo of a game I and a couple of buddies I knew at the time made in Unreal Engine. It's pretty basic and hacked together, has no custom models or meshing, but is fun none-the-less. I've been thinking of getting back to that some day.
I've also taken up streaming games, although I haven't really been able to this year what with my family falling apart and my moving out and shit. I tried to stream again today but the internet where I'm staying is total crap.
Anyways, thanks for the compassion guys, I really appreciate it. It's a bummer but it's nice to know there's some kind folks in the community

Welcome to the real world. You should be thanking thank your parents for purchasing those things over and over again in the form of storage rent. Spend $5,000 a year to house $2,000 worth of stuff for years and you think they owe you one??. You are lucky they they decided to hold onto it as long as they did. You should thank them that you still have half your stuff!

How'd your shit end up in storageboxes in the first place?

Just curiosity.

@DinohScene We were getting evicted from the house I was living in, it was the only place to put stuff while we were on the verge of homelessness.

Holy shit dude that is tragic. Sorry to hear about that.

Thanks. It really stings now but hopefully by the end of this year life will start picking up.

worse off if it was to end up on "that show" just what you need someone taking your shit on TV,it's not only the buyer's fault but b;sme TV for getting ratings on this stuff

I tried to point out a life lesson you should gleam from all of this but you seem to think the world owes you a living. Have fun deleting this.post like the others and go on with your pitty party.

@mikefor20 Don't you have anything better to do? At this point it seems like you're the one that wants a pity party. I didn't ask for people to respond, and tbh I had no idea this many people would. Anyway, I'm sure any life lesson I'm learning will be learned just fine without you.

This sucks, my man. Good for you for working to better your life, though. I wish you the best of luck. As a side note, take it from me: once you start earning adult money, recreating your collection really won't be that hard. Especially nowadays with the insane number of crazy good flashcarts out there.

For everyone here saying the OP is privileged: Go fuck yourselves. This is literally the exact opposite of that. Y'all are fucking cancer.

Why do you think it's your parents responsibility to pay for things? Why is telling a child that he fucked up the wrong thing to do? You guys never learn anything. You guys and your no failing grades, no second places, no bullying,no responsibility for yourself, crying about everything is the problem. Pay your way. Or deal with it. That's how it works. Sad but true. Sorry you don't live in Narnia or Oz or something. Please. The cancer is all the entitled lame fucks who watch things fall apart and cry. Sad but true. Good luck bubble wrapping the world.

OP too bad about your shit. You should have paid the rent. Lesson learned. Better luck next time. Now thank your parents for everything they did for you. Great advice.

I had over 700 original games complete in box, and I won't go into details but I had a mental breakdown. My cousin who was my roommate sold them all for pennies on the dollar just to pay a months rent.

After that I just became a huge pirate. I don't care if people frown upon it. I owned 700 games that I paid my hard money for, and I had one bad thing that happened to me that caused them all to disappear. I'm talking Panzer Dragoon Saga, Earthbound complete, and many more rare games.

My personal recommendation: go through everything in these storage units, figure out what you can fit into your house/apartment assuming you're not underneath your parents' roof(s if the situation is complicated), and get it the fuck out. Files? Use a printer with a built-in scanner to preserve everything. Electronics? Take what you can fit into your house and don't depend on others to do the storage for ya'.

True story: my parents, when my family was moving out in the mid-late 2000's because of some BS with school politics (basically, the school board had all the power to send kids graduating from the various public schools to whatever school the board chose or it had something to do with winning a drawing, it's one of those situations, and the school I was being sent to was simply a part of the city I have had the misfortune of growing up in's stained reputation. No, it ain't Detroit, but either way, a move that'd allow yours truly to go to schools in a smaller, yet safer town not very far from said city required a move), my parents, for some inexplicable reason, decided to throw out the OG NES that we had. Mind you, we also have an Atari 2600 with a box of games that my older brothers got years ago because my parents made terrible career choices that affected the social standing of our family in communities that really didn't give a fuck about us because of the authority figures' narcissistic personalities going against "The Bible" forcing my parents to move to various places around the country, which meant they really didn't have a lot of money for anything. But the NES? No one was playing it, my parents said. Mind you, the NES has more games that are playable for longer capacities than most of the 2600's arcade-esque games that didn't have endings, E.T., Indiana Jones, and Jungle Hunt notwithstanding.

So, yeah. Don't depend on others to handle things you care about and/or invested in if you can, especially if it's your parents, and especially if said parents would rather suck up to a conglomeration of churches that only give a shit about them if they do everything their church of choice tells them to!

Having lost all my possessions during the hurricane, I can say, it's not fun to lose crap. There's always a lingering feeling of "oh man I loved abcxzy, I wonder where it is--oh" or "oh hey look this guy has ____, I remember I've got a...oh.". The random realizations of what I lost still continue to occur to this day.

However, the memories are always there. Even if the memories result in a "dang, I can't believe it's gone", losing it doesn't change the happiness it once brought. I've realized that what's really important is having the things you love, where you can always see them. Not boxed up in the garage, never to see the light of day.

At the end of the day, the storage company had every right to seize it, because they bank on people forgetting their payments, which is why one should never use a storage locker in the first place. I had to use one when I was moving, for what I could salvage from my house and every waking moment was filled with "is the storage locker okay? is it paid for? is it good? is it broken into? did I pay it?" One mistake or lapsed payment, and poof. I couldn't trust a 10x10 garage as far as I could throw one.

In California the storage company makes no money from auctions. They can only recoup your debt and will issue you a check for the overage. Also they are supposed to return documents, pictures and other private items. They only rely on it to make back their loss not for profit. Some other backward state may be different

I have seen people scam the storage companies by leaving fancy boxes with nothing inside. Some moron bids on a bunch of empty boxes and the guy got the overages.

Nobody is banking on your missed payments. You just fucked up.

It wasn't God or the storage company, it was you. Lesson learned, pay the bill next time.

Hello.

@Lacius said it with good words in the first Answer.



Please do not be sad anymore, my friend.

Not easy being a parent of a child that wants all these gaming systems, toys, and electronics. That shit all costs a lot of money. Would you rather them not have given you a childhood? Sacrifices must be made at times. I am sure they gave up many things to get you all that stuff. You should be thankful that you ever had it at all instead of being sour that you lost it.