Years ago we often spotting something retro being thrown away at the local refuse dump and managing to save it. But these days far more people have got wise to the value of retro items. At least you would think!

I was watching a UK house renovation program called, The Great House Giveaway. The program buys a house at auction that needs a lot of work doing to it. They put 2 strangers together and give them the house to renovate, as well as a budget to do the work. At the end the house is then sold and they get to keep any profits.

One house was full of the last owners stuff. It was a mess but you could see they had been a computer user and gamer. The women renovating the house went through all the stuff and concluded there was nothing worth anything so they started to skip the lot.

As she was carrying everything out to the skip in her arms were 2 perfectly good looking Commodore 64s, which she then threw into the skip!
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