[Liz]

Rest assured.....our b/w collections are reasonable compared w/ Ann Getty (of the Getty oil billions). She bought a whole shipload of rare b/w Chinese export porcelain. It has been found after being shipwrecked ages ago. She put some of it in her exquisite dining room....perched on shelves.

[Jamestown1630]

I guess everything is relative, and folks are different; but I wouldn’t be happy living in a museum instead of a home. There’s a point where you have so much money that nothing’s really fun anymore ;-)

I’ve tried to have a rule: nothing comes into the house, unless something equally space-inhabiting goes out. Our problem is *books*: they are the hardest things to divest ourselves of, and we never quite hit the mark there.

-JT