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Spent $400 on a digital photo scanner last year to save my parents' old slides.
It felt like a waste at first, but now I have a cloud folder of their faces from before I was born. What's something you've paid for that actually saved a piece of your history?
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olivia_moore5d agoMost Upvoted
My crew found a water damaged box of my grandpa's blueprints in a basement we were renovating. Paid a local print shop 80 bucks to scan and restore the worst ones. Now I have PDFs of his original house designs from the 60s, which is way cooler than any old photo. That scanner was a solid buy, those files are priceless.
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That scanner sounds way better than my "investment". Bought a fancy label maker to organize old home videos, but who has a VCR anymore? Now I just have neatly labeled plastic bricks. Guess some history is meant to stay in the past.
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the_harper1mo ago
Ugh, that hits close to home. I bought a film projector at a garage sale, thinking it was so cool. Turns out finding the right film reels is basically impossible now. Some tech just becomes a decoration.
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margareto261mo ago
Totally get the frustration with old tech! My uncle had a projector like that collecting dust. We ended up finding a local film club online, and someone there had a whole box of reels they just gave us. Maybe check for a hobby group in your area? Sometimes those niche communities are sitting on exactly what you need.
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