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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