Featured I think my mom bought much if the items she did...

With the idea they were "sleepers" in the antique market and they were a good inheritance for me. Of course, we had no knowledge in the 1970s and 80s that the bottom of the antiques market would fall out at the turn of the century. It isn't just sleeping, it's in a coma. I get very little interest selling locally online. Even with garage sales, people aren't interested in what I have, or expect practically give-away prices. The old collectors are dying off and most younger people now want practical and minimal items. Nobody is interested in "collector's items" and dust catchers.

 

My wife's best friend's mom in that time period was a rabid Hummel Collector and spent a ton of money on them intending to pass them to her daughter... I was in an antique mall in the last few months and saw literal boxes of them, loose, a a few dollars apiece. I'm sure there are some still desirable, but mostly unwanted. I guess Jimmy on "Better Call Saul" got lucky

 

Loved Better Call Saul,
Deb those Christmas boot shakers are adorable,

 

Deb-Bless your dear Mom for thinking of you and wanting to leave a legacy.Not everyone's a Nostradamus when it comes to the economy (even w/ a business degree from Harvard)-she did her best.
Forgive,move on.

 

At least she didn't leave you collector plates! I get a lot of people here asking me about them. I gently tell them they should donate them for a tax deduction to a thrift store

 

I think my parents had that clock

 

Seems to be a very sensible remedy to a painful situation,and a physical ceremony of 'letting go'.