I haven't got to that stage yet @Obelixx. I'm not a hoarder but I need to get rid of what's obvious even to me. Once I've got rid of the 💩 , I might take you up on your suggestion
I've struggling - I tackled another kitchen cupboard this afternoon and found three boxes of unused good quality crystal glasses, two sets of tumblers and one set of fizz glasses. I think they were very probably wedding presents from 27 years ago!
I remember telling the removal packers when we moved here that there were 110 glasses in the cupboard - I'd washed them all by hand!
My children prefer the modern, large and plain wine/tumbler glasses so what on earth do I do with them?
Put them on eBay, if you have an account. There is likely to be someone out there who will have them.
I've bought Crystal D'arque glasses online, to replace the wedding present of six, that I broke!! Since then, I've dropped more. eBay is such a handy source of old items.
You'd be amazed at what people WILL buy. Is there really anyone who would buy a vintage postcard of a water tank at a British castle? Turns out there were two interested parties (lucky seller). I bought it for over £xx. Wife thought I was mad. She's probably right. 🙄
I've struggling - I tackled another kitchen cupboard this afternoon and found three boxes of unused good quality crystal glasses, two sets of tumblers and one set of fizz glasses. I think they were very probably wedding presents from 27 years ago!
I remember telling the removal packers when we moved here that there were 110 glasses in the cupboard - I'd washed them all by hand!
My children prefer the modern, large and plain wine/tumbler glasses so what on earth do I do with them?
Use and enjoy the good stuff and chuck out your old everyday ones.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
When do old clothes become vintage?🤔 one thing I've noticed while sorting out a case full of old clothes is that the quality and the finish was so much better decades ago .
I think vintage is 50 years and antique 100 years, but I might be wrong. I agree about the quality and the finish. I do shudder if I come across 'bri-nylon' though!
Sorry to witness the demise of the forum. 😥😥😥😡😡😡I am Spartacus
We made a small start 18 months ago by clearing out the shed and, on the strength of that, organising a big village bric a brac sale for Ukraine, raising over £2500.
Unfortunately the impetus dwindled, daunted by thirty years of too-good-to-throw-out detritus in the loft. There are almost time periods up there: IKEA nearest the hatch, Habitat further back, student days memorabilia beyond that. But I did make a small start a few months ago, sifting through ephemera like Christmas cards, historic event newspapers, holiday mementoes, theatre programmes, ticket stubs etc.
The last two were a great source of memories and were carefully boxed up, ready for another memory fest a while down the line. Then my wife got her cancer diagnosis and the balance changed. A discussion just with myself about plays seen does not have such appeal.It brought me up short.
Conversations are now taking place about which of “her” things should be kept. I have promised to bin her diaries without reading them but one has already gone: the diary she kept during lockdown - ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ - was put in a time capsule in our garden wall.
A million times over I would take the alternative but being on your own gives you a lot more freedom in the clearing out stakes. The ceanothus shrub in the front garden which Mrs Cotto loves is going. Book shelves are going to be culled, so many books and I will never read them again. I will be able to get rid of the ‘overflow’ wardrobes i.e. clothes rails in the spare bedroom. I will try to sell on eBay some of the many ‘pieces’ we have in our cluttered cottage that give it, in our eyes, its appeal. Treasures, antiques, junk, objets d’art, keepsakes, collectors’ items … there’s a fine line between them all.
A problem is what to do with things which will not sell on eBay as charity shops round here are quite picky about what they’ll accept, or will only take limited quantities, if any at all. I do use Freecycle with some success as well as giving things away on the village Facebook page.
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Once I've got rid of the 💩 , I might take you up on your suggestion
I remember telling the removal packers when we moved here that there were 110 glasses in the cupboard - I'd washed them all by hand!
My children prefer the modern, large and plain wine/tumbler glasses so what on earth do I do with them?
I've bought Crystal D'arque glasses online, to replace the wedding present of six, that I broke!! Since then, I've dropped more. eBay is such a handy source of old items.
The last two were a great source of memories and were carefully boxed up, ready for another memory fest a while down the line. Then my wife got her cancer diagnosis and the balance changed. A discussion just with myself about plays seen does not have such appeal.It brought me up short.
I’ll begin the task tomorrow is my motto.