[Normie] What to start collecting now that my kids can sell after i snuff it?

CupOfChai

Please don't. They'll only have to sell it and it's hassle.

And to the person who suggested fancy wine and whisky, I'd drink it

pipkin71

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Bearing in mind we're talking about values in 50 years time, will people still be interested in something that happened 125 years previously.

That's true.

I still have newspapers from the day after 9/11.

It was such a shocking event at the time but would people be that interested in what had been reported, years from now?

soolin

I buy quite a few bits at auctions usually where there has been a house clearance after someone dies. Seeing people's lives in boxes, tatty and broken from rough handling by the house clearers has certainly made me less of a collector than I used to be. It is not uncommon to see huge boxes of 'stuff' that has just been emptied out of cupboards or drawers, photos, Nick nacks, China, glass ornaments even personal letters, all mixed in with the things 'nan' has kept for best.

I often pick up a box of stuff carefully labelled and stored for years, I bought a box of Coronarion souvenirs just a few months back, mugs, glasses, newspapers, plates etc- it cost me £5 but probably cost a great deal to buy originally. As for 'back of the Sunday supplement collectables' don't waste your money. £150 + collectable dolls bought by instalment selling now for £10 on a good day.

The one thing I do regret falling In price is Wedgewood jasper ware , it is virtually worthless but I hang on to a rather large box load- just in case.

Primrose

I have just heard from an acquaintance today the other side of the "collectibles" story who is having to act as Executor to an elderly hoarding relative who has recently died. Amongst other things they have hundreds of books to sort and dispose of, 10,000 CDs, 1,000 vinyl LPs, three large freezers packed with food, 15 cases of wine (and the deceased only drunk about a bottle a month!) and endless other items. They have pages of spreadsheet items to account for and dispose of.

Where do you start on a task like this when the relative lived hundreds of miles away? If you've made a Will and appointed an Executor, is this really the sort of extra burden you want to inflict on a loved one at a time of grief?. Do them a favour and have a good clear out now !


And I completely agree that the "collectibles" advertised in the back of posh weekend magazines are a total waste of money. I once bought some Villeroy Bosche Russian Fairy Tale wall plates and now I can't unload them for love nor money. I should charge myself rent to continuing to hang them up on a wall !

Bluebell68

I have been collecting paperweights and teddies got some jewellery as well
but I am also going to do 3 photo albums for each of them my childhood photos OH as well
the lads growing up with their mates having fun
them in competitions
on beach up mountains birthdays
Christmas
with grandparents photos that I took
their scan pictures
and im going do them all a story each from day I got pregnant with each of them etc
words for my Boys to be able sit down and read
words mean a lot to myself and my sons
so I no this will be something they will all love
Memories really
xxx

makingplans4nigel

Myth and Magic is very collectable.

Ames

makingplans4nigel wrote: »

Myth and Magic is very collectable.

I collect the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit ranges. A lot of the other collections only seem to go for a fiver each though, they cost at least £15 when new twenty five years ago.