[Wneighbor]

NOTE OF CAUTION: Neither of you said anything about keeping these things for monetary value as antiques - but the methods I've described of making them look nicer to use would severely deplete any antique monetary value associated with the items! They are valuable to some antiques people as they are now!

For my things, they were important sentimental family items and I preferred to have them in usable conditions for me.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think that is my most important consideration too.... and these are not likely to be highly valuable to anyone else.

[HairOfTheDog]

Pic of the tug pullin' out up at the beach house. Said somethin' like "Hey - will you watch my barge for me?" He won't be back till the job is done.

I will go up there tomorrow to watch the real work start.... assuming they can get that Cat fixed!

[Corin Stormhands]

Neither of you said anything about keeping these things for monetary value as antiques...

Mine is purely sentimental value. This aunt was the oldest of my dad's siblings. She was married, widowed and lost a child before she was 18. Her husband started the church I grew up in.

When my grandmother died (before I was born), my aunt moved home to care for my grandfather. I spent a good portion of my childhood there as my mom was working the swing shift and my dad worked construction out of town. She was very much the grandmother I never knew.

She kept a HUGH cedar chest - really it was larger than a coffin. One day she was getting something out and I saw this spread. I said "why don't you make me one." She said her arthritis would no longer let her do that.

When she died and we were cleaning out the home place, we found the spread. There was a note with my name pinned to it.