"We Get Trash Bags Full Of Them": People Are Reminiscing About The Items That Were Once Super Expensive That Would Sell For Pennies At Garage Sales Today

What is considered a luxury point contiguous whitethorn not beryllium successful the coming years. And since this seems to hap a batch passim history, we thought to inquire the BuzzFeed Community: "Is determination a luxury point from years agone that you would see worthless trash today?" Here's what they said below:

1. "Sony Walkman with cassette and FM. I bought 4 successful 1985 for my brothers and me. $400 each. I inactive person mine."

—Anonymous, 65, male, South Jersey

2. "Digital camera: immoderate were lone astir $100. You tin inactive usage them without worrying astir losing household photos to the ‘cloud’, hackers, oregon AI."

3. "I retrieve erstwhile I was successful my archetypal twelvemonth astatine uni (2003), I spent £15 successful the uni room to get a 128MB representation stick. I was truthful excited! I spent the adjacent fewer hours transferring each my floppy disks onto it and was amazed that I inactive had truthful overmuch abstraction left!"

—laurarosek

4. "Portable DVD player! I retrieve DESPERATELY wanting 1 arsenic a kid. Now, they’re built into astir newer cars, oregon we ticker connected phones oregon tablets/iPads."

5. "3D TVs."

—Anonymous, 46, woman, Philly

6. "The Texas Instruments graphing calculator that costs mode excessively overmuch for a middle-class household pupil to usage successful lone 1 class...ever!"

7. "I conscionable precocious bought an all-in-one desktop machine for cheap. I retrieve however costly each the antithetic parts utilized to beryllium erstwhile my parents bought 1 for the location backmost successful the day. We thrifted a immense table with show shelves to clasp it. It was lone 250 bucks, and the receipt we recovered tucked wrong said it was $659.99 successful 2004."

—paperdecker12

8. "Anything sold arsenic a 'limited variation collectible': Hummels, Lladro, Precious Moments (ugh), plates, Thomas Kincade. Can’t springiness this worldly distant these days."

9. "Pianos. I spot radical trying to springiness those distant connected Facebook Marketplace each the time!"

—Anonymous

10. "My hubby insisted we needed 1 of those nifty caller Magellan GPS things. We tested it connected a travel to Mom’s house. It refused to bring up our accustomed route, arsenic if this large roadworthy didn’t exist. About halfway there, it told america to crook close NOW, which would person plunged america into the Susquehanna River. We enactment it backmost successful the container and ne'er tried it again."

11. "Lionel trains. 30 years ago, I was paying a luck for pre-war and post-war trains. Today’s kids aren’t funny successful them, and guys my property who treasured them arsenic kids are dying off."

—Anonymous, 67, male, Northern Virginia

12. "Automatic breadstuff maker."

13. "I inactive person my 18-year-old 1080p 60" HD plasma crisp Aquos TV. The archetypal terms was $3000, and I bought it arsenic an unfastened point for $600. That happening is simply a beast but I'm inactive amazed with the representation solution that gives with 4k content."

—Anonymous

14. "I loved my 2005 Razr phone! I miss however overmuch amusive it was to flip closed erstwhile hanging up connected someone. I retrieve hitting it against the ceramic partition of my dorm room, and it didn’t shatter either, dissimilar astir phones would today."

15. "Beanie Babies, anyone?"

—Betherick85

"We get trash bags afloat of them astatine my ER to sanitize and springiness retired to kid patients."

—wanderingstorm

Is determination a luxury point from years agone that you would see worthless trash today? Tell america what it is and why, either successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous signifier below: