What do you do with old systems and phones?

I just let them sit around, collecting dust.

Old consoles inhabit a space in a couple crates. Every blue moon I'll bring one out with HD cables/adapters and give it a go for nostalgia's sake.

We trade phones around the family as long as they're working, otherwise we trade-in (to get a discount on new phone) or recycle.

Game systems we just keep using. If there one we don't intend to use anymore, I try to gift it to a friend (like the Atari Lynx). But sometimes I can't find anyone, and then I usually trade it in at a retro game shop.

Also, what you do doesn't sound weird to me, but extremely thoughtful instead.

I need to learn to not hurt myself by being kind to others.

I usually keep using the device until it stops working, at which point I buy a new one and put the old one in a box in the basement, with the intention to put it in the electronics recycle bin at some point in the future.

I keep consoles. Specially PS3 - you can use it to play PS1 games on all versions and ps4 sadly doesnt play ps3 games. Wish the ps2 back compat. was on all versions :(

I probably should gift one console to place nephew visits lot to kill time and enjoy older games.

I keep other old stuff too sometimes. You never know when you need them in hurry. Like old phones?
What if new phone breaks totally? Cant just walk to store on sunday and get new expensive one so better have backup for that..despite really rare.
Also picked up photography again, so I got my old digital camera from a ol' box too. Now if I found out how to transfer SD cards on new PC XD