please empty your brain below
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I've still got my Race into Space tea card set as well. They were great - one of the few sets I ever managed to complete.
Nigel | 03.12.13 - 7:03 a.m. | #
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Time for an inventory to be drawn up and lodged with your solicitor maybe? With the benefit of a large attic, most of my "stuff" is out of sight - but not out of mind.
Waterhouse | 03.12.13 - 7:38 a.m. | #
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You can't beat paper.
Sarah | Homepage | 03.12.13 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Just emptied a garage load of my stuff (after my friend needed it back). It had been there for over six years following a house move... My extremely similar collection (uncanny) has now been thinned - almost, I have commandeered a bedroom for the last few boxes (plus books, books, books).
I managed to throw away the Christmas RTs and TTs (stopped collecting when the web became established). And, did you pick up your set of juggling balls (unopened) from the 1995 Tony Buzan Festival of the Mind at the Royal Albert Hall...
Ken | 03.12.13 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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No comment ;)
Blue Witch | Homepage | 03.12.13 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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There will come a time when you cannot play your cassettes or CD's as the equipment to play them on is no longer made. So you will have the cassette to look at as an original but probably listen to it from an on line music site. BetaMax Video has gone and VHS is rapidly going. 8 Track cartridges also gone. Even DVD format is predicted to end in about 10 years.
I have a radio from 1936 that still works off air. That will stop when AM radio broadcasting ends.
If you have lots of photos it is a good idea to scan them and store them on your PC and also on a site like Flickr.The paper copies will fade in time. I have technical magazines I bought in the 1950's, I have scanned some to PDF as the paper is turning brown with age. Brain emtied
As I have a great deal of old stuff, I have been making an effort at de-cluttering recently. E-bay is handy for that.
A few years ago a friend died and he had his flat in Ealing crammed full with specialist magazines, books, old computers,albums of photos of art deco buildings-most of which have been demolished, the executors of his will wanted to send the house clearers in but I and a few others managed to put them on hold and we were able to get some of his collection given to museums and societies.
If you have collectable items of historic interest it is worth mentioning in your will how you would like them disposed of.
John | 03.12.13 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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Hate to disappoint. People I've come across with relatives like you can't wait to monetise what's easily costed/valued and chuck everything else away. You'll be gone - your feeling can't be hurt seems to be their thinking....in fact, one elderly neighbour of mine isn't dead yet but 'stuff' is being disposed of already by 'anxious' relatives.
B | 03.12.13 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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I have very little stuff - I loathe the thought of someone else having to take responsibility for it when I'm gone - so accumulate as little as possible - I can live on holiday for weeks with only my hand baggage, without a thought for all the stuff that surrounds our daily lives!
Nicks | 03.12.13 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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A post that resonates with me, though a couple of transatlantic moves helped the thinning process immensely.
CornishCockney | 03.12.13 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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I'd been putting off changing my 2002 car as long as possible but finally traded it in last month: one of the reasons for my reluctance is that by 2003, the rise of the CD had made it rare to find a car with a cassette player.
It's kind of timely that one of the TV channels has recently been re-showing 'Egypt.' Even for a pharaoh, it's surprising how little space is needed to contain all of a person's "essentials" if you pack everything in tight enough. As Ken says, a space the size of a bedroom usually seems to be enough :)
RogerW | 03.12.13 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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There's a vhs player and a tape deck under my bed - I think. I haven't looked there in a long long time. :/
ms teapot | 03.12.13 - 12:32 p.m. | #
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If one is given 5-10 mins to "pack-your-bags" and take only what you can carry...then you'll have what is truely important and valuable...the rest afraid to say is just "stuff".
What would take? documents, photos, laptop & mp3 player perhaps?, some fav clothes maybe? that old watch an your mobile, an old cuddly toy too.
Ed | 03.12.13 - 1:27 p.m. | #
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How wonderful to discover I am not alone in my careful hoarding of the evidence of my 72 years' existence! It's all there somewhere - in two blanket chests, several drawers in the dressing table, and the bottom of the wardrobe. Every so often I pull it all out, laugh, cry and realise I haven't entirely wasted my life. Trouble is, we're redecorating and replanning the house and the pressure is on from the other half to 'rationalise' and get rid of lots of 'stuff.' Time to take to the attic!-
Sue Miller | 03.12.13 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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Some of the books in my bedroom are so old I find it difficult to unroll them.....
Chris | 03.12.13 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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Please carefully look through all the stuff I have kept over three-quqarters of a century. Some has been kept just so that someone can be reminded of what I have done in my life.
Bits may end up enlarging your collection...
dg's dad | 03.12.13 - 3:18 p.m. | #
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I know about 'stuff'.
Cornishmonkey | 03.12.13 - 6:53 p.m. | #
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In chronological terms, I should have accumulated almost half the amount of stuff you have. Either I'm an even worse shopper than you, or you're an even worse hoarder than you suspect. (I mean, a couple of books a month? I barely buy that many in a year. Comics, on the other hand...)
There is one notable accumulation of ancient stuff which means something only to me, though, and that's the incredible assortment of bits, bobs and other rubbish squirrelled away in the deeper recesses of my computer's hard drive - lovingly transferred over each time the hard drive gets replaced or the computer upgraded. I still have a record of my high scores for games I last regularly played in 1999, and folders full of documents I typed for my own amusement while still in primary school. You may have a room full of paper, but those of us who grew up on computers are quite capable of accumulating stuff just as effectively. Fortunately, I don't need a spare room to keep it all in.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 03.12.13 - 6:58 p.m. | #
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Lovely and very honest post.
We spent about 18 months trawling through a whole houseful of jun^H^H^Htreasure that a relative had left behind when he passed on. Literally thousands of video-tapes, many with incomplete or missing description of content. Three holdalls of slides. Innumerable reels of cine-film including, *somewhere*, footage of mother-in-law's wedding that we obviously wanted to find. It was one helluva job.
We were very committed and didn't need to sell the house quickly. Even so, 18 months for an empty house is far too long and we could easily have had squatters or arsonists.
The trouble is, you can't take it with you and very little of it will MEAN anything to others, at least not without written context to accompany it. I hope you have made plans that will save your blog for future generations, as THAT is a ready-made time-capsule and tells far more people far more about your life than a roomful of 'stuff'.
Respectfully advise spending one hour a week for the rest of your life trying to make sense of the stuff. ;-)
Richard | Homepage | 04.12.13 - 8:53 p.m. | #
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The Bedfordshire episode of Treasure Hunt on VHS. Why record and keep this?
Could this be a clue as to the geezer's identity?
plymothian | 06.12.13 - 6:37 p.m. | #
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