Snowballed
on 11/27/2012 at 08:41 AM
I’m not tired of them. I find it interesting and at the same time possibly frightening because we may face the same in the future. Our biggest problem will be where. We’re lucky tho as by your description of things, we haven’t near the “stuff” you do. We gave up a lot before moving across the Atlantic.
An item lost right here at the house however, is a 50’s Monopoly game. We have everything but the damn board.Heck no Drew, These posts beat the hell out of the endless bowling updates,,,,,,,,,,,
Hey Drew - because of the hubby’s co-pays (and extra gas) for PT - we brought my Mom’s things and packed the garage. I thought after I finished the book boxes (about 50+) I was done. Not so fast. The auction guy was so pissed that the family demanded the unsold items back (like, gee, it was IN the damn contract) - that they just kinda wrapped and put the stuff into boxes. So I actually wrapped the items, took inventory and re-packed them. Finally finished the last dish pack (down to 1 plus a 3.1 from 3 dish packs) and about 10 re-packed book boxes of china etc. Then I come to discover - all the boxes I’d thought were done, I kinda breezed through without really going through them. I think I have about 5 boxes left.
I did find some goodies - an 1887 edition of Grays Anatomy - binding sucks but it’s all there. I think I have about 2 dozen books published before 1910 - and some are even in excellent condition.
Too bad I still haven’t found any of the guns - those I would be happy to have found and since I’ve found every receipt from forever - I know I have the original bill of sale around here in a box.
But it seems everything really valuable - she already sold or gave to the male members of the family.
We had to do a bit of the serious personal clean-out stuff - just to get the space to bring her junk here. Thankfully the Friends of the Library came for the 31 boxes of books I culled out from her stash of 3 generations of family members.
11/27/2012 at 09:58 AM
