Rosalie, I'd give some serious thought to taking all the things to a
large mini storage facility initially. Then, if it was me, I would
contact a temporary Manpower-type service and hire a secretary type or
researcher type to work for you over a couple months to catalog the
items. Then working from the accessible things in the mini storage
facility, you could begin to sell on eBay, donate to libraries etc.
without disrupting you household.
Nonny
Rosalie B. wrote:
> LeeNY wrote:
>
>> On Jul 10, 9:26 pm, Rosalie B. wrote:
>>> LeeNY wrote:
>>>> On Jul 10, 3:11 pm, Rosalie B. wrote:
>>>>> I have found additional boxes with information about cruises my mom
>>>>> went on in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Sometimes she saved everything -
>>>>> menus and all other paperwork given by the ship. Sometimes not. What
>>>>> would be a good thing to do with this material.
>>>> If you're not interested in saving it, maybe sell it on eBay? Check
>>>> over there and see if there are similar items available, just to get
>>>> an idea of whether or not there's even a market for it. There's a
>>>> collector for everything - I wouldn't be surprised if someone was very
>>>> interested in some of the stuff, especially if the ship name/logo,
>>>> cruise line name/logo, etc. is included on the papers.
>>>> Let us know what you decide to do.
>>> I don't have time to sell it on ebay.
>>>
>>> I guess what I'd really like is for someone to ask for it and I send
>>> it to them, and they pay for the postage and then if they sell it to
>>> give me 5 or 10% of their net.
>> There are a lot of places around that do all the ebay selling/shipping/
>> money collecting for you. I think it's a great business, and is ideal
>> for folks like you who seem to want to profit from the stuff without
>> making much effort. Not sure what their cut would be, but I suspect
>> they'll probably be on the 5-10% end, and you'd get the bigger chunk
>> of the profits.
>>
> I have done selling on ebay so that's how I know how much work it is,
> which is why I'd be happy with 5-10%.
>
> What you may not understand is that it has taken my sister and my four
> children and my two nieces and one nephew and their spouses and many
> auction house personnel of four auction houses 15 months to clear out
> my mom's house, and we still have about three truckloads of stuff to
> clear out before we go to closing at the end of the month.
>
> I'm mostly interested in seeing that family heirlooms, pictures and
> correspondence don't get sent to auction by mistake so everything has
> to be individually examined. Just this week, one of the auction
> people found a painting by my grandmother in the cellar that we had no
> idea was there.
>
> Getting the stuff packaged up to mail or ship to people is an
> operation that takes time. I've probably more than 50 packages of
> books and pictures and artifacts to non-family people that I knew my
> mom wanted to have them and my sister has done similar.
>
> She and dad were also photographers, and I have boxes and boxes of
> slides and pictures that they took.
>
> I tried three different ebay sell-for-you people. Only one of them
> would come to the house, and he took one look and was so overwhelmed
> that I never heard from him again.
>
> My mom saved everything. She often said that everything she had was
> collected by someone and that's the truth.
>
> She also had almost every piece of correspondence - not only from her
> children and grandchildren and my dad, but from her parents and
> grandparents. She had letters from my grandfather's mother to my
> grandfather and his mother died when he was 14 (before 1900). She had
> letters from her mother to her and from her to her mother when she was
> in college (1928 to 1931). She had letters from her grandfather to
> her mother. She had the estate settlement letters from two of her
> aunts and one uncle in addition to her parents and my dad. She had
> several copies of all of the papers that my dad published (he did
> cancer research) in addition to the one volume of his research papers
> that she had already had bound.
>
>
>
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