Posted on 07/19/2019 12:02:35 AM PDT by beaversmom
Our parents/grandparents are probably the first generations in history that were able to accumulate so much stuff over their lifetimes, before that, people really didn’t have much at all.
All my Dad’s extra medals (I have his medal case) were sold off.
Why do estate sale vultures acquire medals & rank insignia that they never earned and never will?
Thanks.
Roger that.
when dad passed, he left a lot of stuff, lots of junk for sure, but his toy and electric train collection filled top to bottom front to back a Penske moving truck, it was a husband wife team from an auction house that came with expectations of an easy day and a half load out, what they found was was 3 days with mom myself, sister and 3 other family members helping to pack and load. Very little went to the dump. other than dad’s hoard of metamucil jars and boxes. I suspect my dad’s collections were the exception and not the rule.
Wow on your dad’s collection.
Just this past week I gave away cookbooks, very nice ones. Still, I was like you. I kept the cookbooks my mother cooked from because of memories. Amazing, what we value.
Lodge skillets are the best! I got mine at Cracker Barrel and at Boscov’s.
I bet I’ve got 150# of Lodge stuff in the house. 4 skillets in various sizes, a couple Dutch ovens, a camp Dutch oven, a flat single burner griddle, a double burner griddle, other miscellania.
I’ve helped clean out two hoarder houses upon the person’s death. I have a list of these services in our area, but I haven’t been able to get family to be willing to use them.
I think my favorite Bradbury books were Something Wicked This Way Comes and Dandelion Wine. Dandelion Wine was not SF or fantasy, but still was a delightful and poignant story. He also did a short that left me really thinking along the same lines as this article, about an ordinary little boy born into a family of “monsters” and their relationship with this mortal relative; I can’t remember the name of it. I always loved Ray Bradbury.
If you think of that title, please let me know.
That's awesome! They, of course, look great hanging on the wall or from a ceiling pot rack.
7 pieces on the pot rack over the sink, along with 5-6 non-Lodge pieces.
I see things!
It took me a little while to find it. It was “Homecoming,” published in “The Stories of Ray Bradbury,” a 1980 anthology. The story was first published in 1946. Reading it always leaves me a bit choked up.
He expanded it into a longer work, “From the Dust Returned,” but I have not read that.
While looking for that title, I was reminded of other Bradbury shorts that left an impression on me. He wrote so many good stories.
Thanks!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for posting. Bittersweet.
I’m on year three of my “year of throwing things out”.
Amazing how much stuff accumulates, and I’m paring down duplicates upon duplicates of stuff.
10 boxes of flower pots. 6 drawers of bed linen. 8 sets of table placemats. 40+ coffee cups. Pot lids for pots we don’t have anymore. Clothes, clothes and clothes.
I’ve been recycling as much as possible - 400 pounds of metal to the scrap dealer alone. But most of the stuff I put out gets picked up before the garbage man gets there. I figure if someone else wants it or needs it or scavenges it, God bless them and welcome to it. Saves trips to Goodwill.
Where are you going?
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