Originally Posted by Willa
You might want to tell your children to check with an auctioneer. We were going to throw out a cardboard poster (I think from the 1980's) and our auctioneer said no, it will sell.
My kids have asked me too why I keep some things like my grandpa's camelback trunk. To me this is a duh, its my grandpas'. Its not in good shape on the outside but the inside has a beautiful tray and between it and the inside of the lid are 3 pictures on them. Well a feew weeks ago one of my sons called and said he was watching a show and a trunk like mine went for $500 and if it were fixed up it would sell for up to $3000 and the tv trunk didn't have the 3 pictures, so now my son says I can keep it.
Isn't funny how much something is OK to keep once they know it's worth something to someone besides yourself.
I've begun passing some old stuff down to my granddaughters, gave oldest DGD my MIL's chest with silverplated service for 8 flatware, another DGD asked for my grandmother's macaroni platter that my mother used and then I did for years, made copies for each family of photo of my grandfather with his open front taxi cab circa 1914. Have only one grandson and when he's older he'll get my FIL's and DH's rings. Had rings made for 6 DGD's with diamond chips from MIL's wedding rings and added their birthstones on the side. It's only a little bit but I'm getting there.