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re: Somebody sold a vcr on eBay: they then got mailed this letter
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:58 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:58 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I am 86
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retired at 61
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:04 pm to 19
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:05 pm to AtticusOSullivan
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Not one VHS tape of me or my family from when I was growing up.
Me either. We didn't have a cam corder.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:06 pm to Clyde Tipton
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I need to do this as well. I have a box full of old tapes my parents shot with an over the shoulder type VHS camera back in the day. The set runs from early 80's through about 1995.
There are companies you can just send that entire box to and they will organize/burn it all onto DVD's or digital copies for you.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:08 pm to Commandeaux
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I was patiently waiting for the old man to say he found your vhs of you blowing a horse.
Yeah, that's what I expected too. I have become conditioned to expect him describing the raunchy sex tape the previous owner "accidentally left in the VCR".
This place has ruined me.
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Great story! I learned a big lesson many years ago. I was young and single and I bought a nice 35mm SLR camera. I would haul it everywhere and would almost always shoot a roll of film at any event, get together, party, whatever. When I would get home I would either get the film processed, or if I didn't think I had anything worthwhile, I would chunk it in a drawer. Over a few years I ended up with a couple of dozen ho-hum rolls in that drawer. Several years later I saw an add where one of the film processors was running a special $1 a roll developing. So I gathered them up and had them developed. I learned that you never throw away memories. What seems irrelevant today may become your fondest memory in the future.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
People who can't appreciate this story are dead inside.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:11 pm to Deactived
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That's oweos grandfather
I mean ffs, get to the point.
And it's a VCR
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:11 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:11 pm to Deactived
Nah Grandfathers write hand written notes. More like father or a real life alter
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:12 pm to MorbidTheClown
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thought sure there was going to be a forgotten "home movie" left in the player
Same here!! That is pretty cool, though. The old guy was obviously very appreciative. Brought him some joy reliving happy memories....
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:35 pm to oleheat
Yep
It’s not just the content of letter that is warming, it’s the plain fact he wrote a letter to begin with
My lazy arse generation would do no such thing
It’s not just the content of letter that is warming, it’s the plain fact he wrote a letter to begin with
My lazy arse generation would do no such thing
Posted on 2/19/19 at 8:36 pm to Yat27
2 people are cretins
Posted on 2/19/19 at 8:50 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I hate that those memories are on something as volatile as a VHS shell filled with "chrome equivalent" coated polyester.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 9:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
That’s awesome
Posted on 2/19/19 at 9:20 pm to SwatMitchell
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I was a little surprised to read that he/she had a recording of their wedding.
When my Father in Law who would have been 86 now got his first VHS camcorder in the early 1980s he set up his movie projector and screen then recorded a lot of his 8MM film movies off the screen including some of his wedding from the 1950s. This guy probably did something like that, pretty low tech by todays standards, but preserved the images for another generation.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 9:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
He needs to convert those tapes to digital before that VCR eats them.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 10:05 pm to TheFonz
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It was also something my kids enjoyed as well, to see their great-grandparents and their old man when he was only seven years old.
This is really why I keep Facebook around. I think one day either my kids or myself will like to scroll all the way back to 2004 and see the photos and whatnot. I have very few photos of my parents from when they were younger. Facebook is like a photojournal.
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