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Ca88, I know I'll have to face this with my parents too.
I think they have already thrown away all the things i would consider valuable.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 20, 2005 at 5:30 PM
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Wow. What a job you have ahead of you. I got a taste of such when my mother recently died and I went through as much of her stuff as I could at the time. There is still plenty more for my next visit. I too will have to look at storage eventually. When my father goes there will be many things I will want to keep - family heirlooms, paintings, etc - but have no room to do so.
posted by
Ca88andra
on August 20, 2005 at 12:45 AM
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Whacky, If I were you, I'd just keep it
like Majroj said, for nos-talgia.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 19, 2005 at 8:17 AM
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Majroj, That's a great story
and I even remember Sonja Heinie, saw her ice skate on TV when I was a wee babe.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 19, 2005 at 8:16 AM
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I know my mom
has a trunk full of hand made stuff that she kept because either she made it or her mom did. But I wonder what should I do with it?
posted by
Whacky
on August 17, 2005 at 8:55 PM
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Well, looky here: the rest of the (corrected) story:
http://www.oldfields.org/highlights/sonjahenie_losthrt_highlit.html
posted by
majroj
on August 17, 2005 at 6:56 PM
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Two words: Digital Preservation.
And two more: NOS-TALGIA.
(Well, ok, cheap parallel-construction trick, but why else would someone store linens? Or OCD...).
Maybe it is there no longer, but in Omaha's Old Market district used to be a frozen storage facility, the type people used to store furs and the like in, huge old brick monster. Deep in its bowels lay the slowly sublimating, distorted remains of an emerald green, glass-clear heart made of ice, to greet Sonja Heinie when she visited there...scheduled, I believe, for somewhere around 1951 or so? The man who had swung the deal was also very smitten with her, and kept the heart in storage as late as the early Eighties, when I was there and read the account in the Omaha World Herald.
posted by
majroj
on August 17, 2005 at 6:55 PM
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