Are our possessions worth nothing?

Tipsntreats

I thought this thread had come to a halt. It's nice to see that it is still useful.
As for me, I am still paying for storage for a few bits of my Mothers things. I just can't throw them away.
The trouble with selling the stuff, is BECAUSE it is in storage. It puts people off. I just don't have the room in my flat. I have vowed to myself, that come September, I will sort something out.
Tips

elly68

Tips you could advertise a storage sale on gumtree set a weekend aside take a flask and sandwiches .Feel for you mums anniversary is the 24th its been a quick year but feels like a lifetime all in one .If the storage is expensive it may be worth advertising it as a one lot auction at least you wont be paying storage next year .take care you have had a lot of nice posters on this thread ,theres a lot of nice people out there more than the media allows us to believe.

Tipsntreats

Bless you elly68. I think it is me holding on really. We have tried gumtree, there are an awful lot of time wasters there. We even advertised things for FREE. As the storage is quite a drive for us(hubby and me), it is so annoying when people don't turn up. Still the very thought of taking it to the tip, just upsets me. My family will have to do this without me.
Tips x

elly68

It is very difficult ,ive read a lot this year on becoming minimilist blog think this has helped theres a bit about photographing stuff and keeping that as a memory rather than the physical stuff ,I had to clear the paperwork stuff ,she had ?a real thing about burning personal stuff even though we offered to shred it ...I have spent many a night with a fleece on and the chimnea burning her bills accounts ect not very green but very therapuetic . I have bits and bobs still to go but at least no more letters arriving for her . Hope you manage with your families help take care x

SailorSam

I know after my Mum died i struggled to get rid of a lot of her stuff. My young niece and her boyfriend were getting their first house but only wanted new designer stuff. When i got my first terraced house, i begged; borrowed, and stole anything. 10yrs on almost and there are still things here that are going to end up being taken to the tip. Every time i think about downsizing and getting myself a flat i'm put off by the thought of having to have a clear out.

Tipsntreats

Ah bless you Sam. We will all get there in the end.
Tips x

-taff

I have bought items on ebay that were from house clearance due to bereavement.

I got a beautiful old sewing cabinet, and drove to London to collect it. I've modified it slightly for electric sewing machines and it weighs a ton, had to shift it up a flight of stairs, so I put castors on it, to make moving it in the future easier.

It's being used now by someone who loves it so I'm sure the gentleman who sold it to me is happy his mothers sewing cabinet is being put to good use.

So that's one positive story about what happens to furniture when someone really wants something

Tipsntreats

-taff I am reluctantly having to put an old treadle singer sewing machine on ebay this week. I really hope it goes to someone like you. No idea of the value of it, only that it was made in 1939 in Scotland.

Tips x

Hermia

Tipsntreats wrote: »

Bless you elly68. I think it is me holding on really. We have tried gumtree, there are an awful lot of time wasters there. We even advertised things for FREE. As the storage is quite a drive for us(hubby and me), it is so annoying when people don't turn up. Still the very thought of taking it to the tip, just upsets me. My family will have to do this without me.
Tips x

Have you tried joining Streetlife? I have belonged to them for a while and I find the people on there much friendlier and more helpful than on Facebook and Gumtree.

Tipsntreats

No I haven't Hernia. I will try them though, thank-you for that.
Tips x