Toys

We're starting to get our house ready to put on the market, and have been doing a lot of the usual "this box never got unpacked when we moved the last time" type cleaning... I have a lot of music equipment that I haven't really used since my 20's (except for a couple times with a church in Texas). I can't part with all of them, but I did decide to check out CraigsList.Com to see if any of them still had some value. Surprisingly, my Roland D-5 might still be worth almost half what I paid for it in 1990. If I had a DX-7, it would still be worth quite a bit as well.

But the following ad really caught my eye:

2 fast PC's, loaded with ram and hard drives, Nuendo, Cubase and all the plugius, Kontakt 3, Layla soundcard and Delta 1010 soundcard. 2 15" LCD monitors, KVM switch to switch monitors between computers, 1 Mac 7200 running MastertracksPro sequencing software, 2 midi interfaces. 2 Rode NT1 Microphones w/ 2 Event Electronics Mic. preamps, 2 heavy duty studio mic stands w/ shock mounts. 4 tier custom Keyboard stand, Roland Phantom keyboard, XP50 keyboard, R 8M drum module, Alesis D4 (both drum modules accept trigger in), Proteus module, Korg M3R module, 2 oak racks, Sony 100 w stereo amp, Alesis Studio 32 mixing board, 2 JBL studio monitors, Nakamichi cassette deck, all cabling, power supplies w/ battery backup. Best offer for all. Must sell this weekend. Losing home. I'm tearing it all down this weekend, so somebody is going to get real lucky. call Ron 555-1212

Granted, some of it probably wasn't new, but some of it is, and combined, is worth thousands.

And he's losing his house. Sad. He had money for the toys, but no money for the mortgage.

Hmmm...