Good ones I pass down to my daughter, and others I throw on the rack at my local center.

I've only kept one ball from back in the day. I threw my old Zone Classic in so many events and had several honor scores with it. Definitely my go to ball for years. Don't see light enough oil to throw it anymore, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

Other than that if I've got different stuff I don't throw I either sell them or give them away. They end up taking up way too much space.

Do you toss your inactive equipment or leave it around for the memories?  How long is too long to keep stuff around?   

With the exception of the Storm pieces that came with the last couple of years of PWBA membership and later split despite being kept unused in a climate-controlled environment, everything I have bought is potentially fair-game to be used again.  I sold some of the old 16lb stuff from the 80's and early 90's but that was because it was never going to be used again. 

For the most part, I have not bowled in something like eight years save for the annual office xmas party...but stuff like my Faball Blue Nail still works fine in today's environment as does the old Roto RH bleeder. 

Good ones I pass down to my daughter, and others I throw on the rack at my local center.

Within the last month or so, I gave a ball to the local house and donated another to a high school team.