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Yorkshire Auction House- collections

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Cabbie21 Thu 29-Aug-24 20:21:47

On this TV programme and others like it, the auctioneers are frequently asked to help families to clear and sell deceased relatives’ effects. Sometimes they have been kept for years, taking up whole rooms of a house. Often it can be a load of
‘ collectibles ‘ that have accumulated, or dare I say ‘ hoarded’. For example, hundreds of small models of buses, thousands of postcards of every castle in the UK etc.
I can’t help wondering what impels someone to collect so excessively and obsessively in this way. Or to hang on to what has become a burden.
I always admire those people who take the bull by the horns and disperse their collections during their lifetime, rather than leave their loved ones to deal with them.
I speak as one who has had to clear her parents’ home of masses of stuff, kept “in case it comes in handy”, and a husband who had several collections.
Do you collect anything? Does your husband/ partner?

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M0nica Fri 30-Aug-24 16:52:32

Elless

I appreciate that some people have a lot of items and also they may be unable to move it themselves but I would take the things I wanted to sell rather than have them come and collect it. No need to have a go - I just think the charges are to much (my opinion again, which I am entitled to).

Elless No one is having a go at you, just explaining why auction houses charge the rates they do.

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but you also have you also have to accept that othe people will challenge your opinions if they think differently. That is what discussion is all about.

Each person stating their view and no one responding, just stating their view would make exceedingly dull reading and would probably kill GN in a month.

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