Our precious keepsakes

caroln said:
I've always thought that too, but when I watch House Hunters on tv the buyers are always saying how much they "love to entertain" and "need entertaining space". The only entertaining I see anymore is just small family get-togethers for a birthday or holiday. Frankly, I don't even know enough people to throw a party. Kinda sad I guess...
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Agree completely with the bolded statement.

Maybe House Hunters chooses those people for their shows because large "entertainers' homes" are far more interesting to show than 1500 SF 3 Br, 2 BA homes.

Thinking of my children (in their thirties), their quite large circle of friends, and my own considerable circle of friends from their twenties on up, I can't tell you the last time I heard of anyone under 50 hosting a dinner party or fancy celebration. Children's birthday parties, maybe, but they're mostly hosted outside with bouncy castles and other entertainment. Don't need a ballroom for that...

I'm not dissing them. Parties are a lot of work, particularly if you're doing all the anticipatory cleaning, food planning, shopping, prep, cooking, and cleanup. Even more so if you're not relying on disposable plates, napkins and flatware.
 

Gardenlover said:
My dad's philosophy was if you haven't used or looked at it within the last two years - get rid of it.
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@Gardenlover I think your dad's philosophy is accurate.
The last few years I've purged our home like crazy.
Last month I decided to make baked custard, something I don't do very often. I got the recipe out and noticed I had written a note saying I should use my half sheet pan to put all the custard cups in so I could add the water necessary for baking the custard.
Then I remembered I had sold the sheet pans because I haven't made a sheet cake since the kids were still home. I never thought about the custard. Same thing happened with a pot I used that worked great for asparagus but I didn't use it for anything else.
I found replacements but it didn't work half as good as the things I discarded or sold.
I'm still all for purging and cleaning out but give the things a little time before you toss them.
You might be sorry if you act to quickly.
 
Household “treasure” left behind by my widower step-father, no one was found who would accept this treasure, ….over a hundred jars of old canned fruit & vegetables stored in his basement. I was not told there were so VERY many jars when I took on the job of removing them from the house and so brought only one wooden box that could hold only 6 jars at a time. My working daughter had to take time away from her job to drive me to his house.

I carried 6 jars at a time up the basement stairs, into the kitchen then onto its porch, down five porch steps and into the garage 10 feet away, over and over again. It was on my twelfth(?) trip and about to enter the kitchen, that I suddenly snapped out of a mind ‘fog’ that must have come over me from all those repeated trips of lugging those jars to the garage.

That miserable experience is one of the reason I believe that to unnecessarily leave any unused, unneeded, nor non-ancestral traditional item behind, not disposed of before your death, just adds more pain onto loved ones who will have to dispose of them.
 

Ruth n Jersey said:
I'm still all for purging and cleaning out but give the things a little time before you toss them.
You might be sorry if you act to quickly.
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Even though I’ve thought of needs of some things after I got rid of them, I’m still better off without.

Now, does anyone know what I did with my indoor sandals for summer. I know I gave two pairs of new ones that were just a bit too big away to a neighbour. I know I cleaned out my shoe closet in the fall. Did I give away my indoor sandals. It appears that I gave away my memory too.
 
hollydolly said:
I have to say I don't have most of the things you're all talking about, china, glassware etc my 'ornaments' are all large and modern and pretty valueless really .. my only concern will be that my daughter will take my photos including those of her ancestors , but she's not interested even tho' they're all on an External Hard-drive.

However I came across this sweet 3minute video someone found and posted of their old gran...from 2007

To live surrounded by all this would be my own personal nightmare...:eek:

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OMG, what was that loud sound with her mucous?
 
Sunny said:
The first thought I had was, good thing that lady didn't live in earthquake country!
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We live in earthquake country. and the 1994 Northridge quake (we were 4 miles from the epicenter) took care of a little downsizing. Fortunately, everything we lost fit into a wastebasket.
 
bowmore said:
We live in earthquake country. and the 1994 Northridge quake (we were 4 miles from the epicenter) took care of a little downsizing. Fortunately, everything we lost fit into a wastebasket.
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Lucky you. I also live/lived close to the epicenter and had massive damage, both structural and contents. EQs are like tornadoes that way. Damage can be oddly hit and miss.
 

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