Do you collect things that most people wouldn't want?

30-40 years ago because we had a couple of ducks that all 3 of us enjoyed. So one day at a yard sale I bought a hand carved duck for our son. Then at another yard sale I bought another duck, then some more.So Son moves to his own place and I ask " what about your duck collection", so he says "Mom that is your collection". So what the heck I collected a lot of ducks.There are 3 or 4 that might have some vaalue. The rest are boxed up.
 
oscash said:
I have a box of trophies my son's won when then entered competitions for brass bands. They don't want them, But I can't force myself to throw
them out, even their children don't want them. I can't donate them to a charity because they have their names on them.
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Theres a ton of ways to repurpose them if youre slightly handy. Check out Pinterest and Google.
Its been a while but the past Ive done a few coatracks and ornaments and jar finials and wine corks.
They come apart into sections and you can screw the top on whatever you want.
Maybe your son or his kids would like a coatrack made with his old trophy tops?

The husband amassed a few from auction lots. If you want to donate them to Goodwill you can remove the name plate first.
I found some trophy shops that would take them to repurpose into free trophies for kids.

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oscash said:
I have a box of trophies my son's won when then entered competitions for brass bands. They don't want them, But I can't force myself to throw
them out, even their children don't want them. I can't donate them to a charity because they have their names on them.
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There are places that will take old trophies and what they do with them is separate them from the base where the name is. Then they put a new base on them with someone else’s name. You could probably find which places do that by using Google.
 
I've thought about a coat rack out of the kid's trophies but I don't think anyone would even want that.
I have pencil collection started when my kids went on field trips. I'd give them an extra quarter and tell them to bring me back one from the museum or wherever they were going. I would pick them up myself when traveling. It went by the wayside after the kids got older but I started asking them and the grands to bring one from their travels so its building again.
Lots of pencils are made in China now and are poorer quality so I'm glad I have plenty of good ones if they ever get used.
 

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