Posted on 06/06/2017 10:57:53 AM PDT by Drew68
Edited on 06/06/2017 2:11:09 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
For 30 years, Pat Fryzel stored her children
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I'll echo some of the sentiment in a few posts here and say that some folks lack discernment about what is important. If presented with two boxes of things -- one a box of 8-track tapes from the 70s, and the other box filled with neatly organized family photographs, and feel like some people would have to slip a coin -- "Oooh, KC and the Sunshine Band! I remember those tunes! Do I want that? Or Grandma's wedding album and diary?? I dunno ..."
Keep the heirlooms. Get rid of the stuff. But ... learn to discern which is which.
But you'll only take my lava lamps from my cold dead hands ...
American Girl dolls are not heirlooms!
Now, Beanie Babies... that's something else! /sarc
I have a couple hundred thousand dollars’ worth of fine sterling silver, high quality linens, Waterford crystal and fine china. My hobby is “tablescaping”’ the art of setting elaborate, elegant tables for entertaining purposes. My tablescaping valuables take up considerable storage space in my home as well as a large offsite storage unit. Even sold off on Ebay, my stuff would bring in a lot of money.
If my daughter decides she doesn’t want my beautiful things, I will give them away to other women in the online “tablescaping” community. These women are online friends only, but I know even as real life strangers, they will be thrilled to add my beautiful things to their collections—and they will appreciate and take good care of my things.
If you’re ever interested in the beautiful and fun art of tablescaping, go to “betweennapsontheporch.net”. Susan Herrin, the blog owner, has a beautiful blog, and what was once a fun hobby for her is now a lucrative business.
We are currently getting rid of the excess stuff. The problem is pretty much ad detailed. However, the main reason is the kids just don’t want the stuff.
Once you learn ebay, you can in fact sell some of it. A Pez dispenser(no feet) 1970 ish sold for $92. New in the original package Pez dispensers with feet of same era draw no bids. Surprisingly, there are a lot of them.
I currently have several ‘40s BSA calendars up for sale. A new unopened bottle of “White Shoulders” got nary a sniff.
Perhaps you can scan the letters and provide a written “translation” for the grands and their kids, all on electronic media, as that is what kids use today.
But even DVDs and CDS only have a life of about 25 years.
I have a neighbor who I think is figuratively trapped in too big of a house because she has told me her kids don’t want her stuff (china, etc) and she knows it “wouldn’t bring what it’s worth” at auction. So she’s disabled and needs help but stays there with her stuff so somebody won’t get it for a song.
It WAS disappointing to see how little my parents’ stuff brought at auction, but where they lived that was the only good option to get rid of everything at once. There was very little I wanted to keep.
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My book “How to Dispose of Your Stuff, Heavenly Uses for Earthly Goods” gives hundreds of ideas as to who would love to take specific items off your hands. $17.95 on AMAZON, or $15 if you order by responding via Freeper mail. Pardon the vanity response, just seemed appropriate.
Thx ...
I enjoyed reading letters from my great-grandmother, to my Grandmother. Dad found a stack.
Of particular interest was one while were expecting WBill Jr. I read it, while sitting in a room filled with diapers and wipes and clothes and all the other culch that's associated with a "First Baby".
It was written during WW II. Great Grandma was putting aside "A Handful" of diaper pins for Grandma, as my father was due in a few months. Rationing had taken them all off the market, you see, and they couldn't be had. Or not had easily, apparently.
I read that, then looked around at ALL of the stuff, and appreciated exactly how good I had it.
I’ve conducted two major purges when she was away for an extended period of time. I pay hell for it for awhile, and the collection cycle repeats. If she drops dead before I do, there’s gonna be one hell of a yard sale. If I drop dead before she does, then she’s gonna have just a little more space to add to her collection before the house explodes from storage compression.
One thing I won’t have any problem foisting on my kids are my Christmas Decorations. They are already claiming things and I am reminding them I am only 56 and don’t plan on going anywhere for 30-40 years.
My wife and her buddy volunteered to be the archivists to find all the documents and photos and stuff for a book celebrating the 100th anniversary of our church. They worked 6 years gathering it all and cataloguing on an excel spread sheet. Another wrote the book. As the stuff was gathered from here and there all over the church where to put it became a problem. A History Room was developed with lots of cabinets and shelves to house it all.
She also did the same job for the local Red Cross Chapter.
Soon she is going to advertise her skills and do it for pay for those facing the problems outlined here. The work product will be a database of documents and photos and slides saved on a CD or thumb drive. That can be copied and distributed to kids and siblings and grand kids.
Not necessarily. You only have a few years to train them but ultimately they will make their own choices.
What I meant was if your life has purpose and meaning during your working years that transfers into your retirement years. It's part of who you are.
“Sell! Sell! Sell!” —Trading Places
Yep. Boxes and boxes of analog video tapes and my spouse still doesn’t quite understand that there is sort of a diminishing return. Now using digital, but who knows if I’ll ever in my life get around to ordering these tapes and files into some type of relevant order.
Alas, my spouse keeps recording memories and we are closing in on 20k digital photos, not including actual print photos.
Daughter has told us to get rid of our treasurers or Good Will gets them..
I have items from my grandmother and my husbands that I loved but now time to part with them..
I saved my daughters toys, and barbies, that even contained the original barbie and Ken dolls..I sold them in a garage sale for sixty dollars..I saved my sons toys, and HE wanted them, he has them in his art Library stored in his dad's Army Trunk that came home for Germany with him 55 years ago..some kids treasure all stuff, some just don't...
BUT, THEY BOTH WILL TAKE MONEY AND WHAT EVER THE INSURANCE POLICIES PAY OUT!!! no doubts about that.~~~~ lol
You can’t take it with you.
Try to find good homes for the things you have been blessed with, as best you can.
Otherwise, it will go into a dumpster.
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