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My grandfather recently died and left behind collections that we sold off. When you spend your life collecting things you really do build yourself around it. I

My grandfather recently died and left behind collections that we sold off. When you spend your life collecting things you really do build yourself around it. I was very excited and volunteered to take his national geographic collection until I realized that it would essentially take two entire rooms full of boxes with no walking space. His coin and stamp collections were also massive, heavy filing cabinets. Even selling them off is a massive chore, much less going through them to try and see where to continue it.

chrisseaton 5y ago
> Even selling them off is a massive chore There are people who will give you a price to buy collections that you don't want to take the time to carefully catalogue for appraisal. Both you and them take a risk on the price being right, but then you save a lot of time.
notyourday 5y ago
> Even selling them off is a massive chore, much less going through them to try and see where to continue it. Contrary to what people want to believe 99.99999% of all those collections are priced per lb or kilo.
sumtechguy 5y ago
My dad has one of those big coin collections. There are maybe a dozen or so coins in the whole thing that are really worth anything. The rest is several physical tons of 'that is going to take awhile to go through' and 'hey dad your retired why dont you sort your coins, oh I am leaving that to you'. I personally try to keep my physical collections small. Only a few items that I consider interesting I keep. Except my DVD collection, video games, and my wifes CD collection. I like them so I keep those. But if I stopped caring about it I would take an active interesting in getting rid of it. I do not want to burden someone else with my collection of junk. My personal coin collection if you went and spent it as cash I would be a bit upset but no real value would have been lost. The 50 or so coins I have are merely novelty not valuable and fit in a plastic cup.

chrisseaton 5y ago

> Even selling them off is a massive chore There are people who will give you a price to buy collections that you don't want to take the time to carefully catalogue for appraisal. Both you and them take a risk on the price being right, but then you save a lot of time.

notyourday 5y ago

> Even selling them off is a massive chore, much less going through them to try and see where to continue it. Contrary to what people want to believe 99.99999% of all those collections are priced per lb or kilo.

sumtechguy 5y ago

My dad has one of those big coin collections. There are maybe a dozen or so coins in the whole thing that are really worth anything. The rest is several physical tons of 'that is going to take awhile to go through' and 'hey dad your retired why dont you sort your coins, oh I am leaving that to you'. I personally try to keep my physical collections small. Only a few items that I consider interesting I keep. Except my DVD collection, video games, and my wifes CD collection. I like them so I keep those. But if I stopped caring about it I would take an active interesting in getting rid of it. I do not want to burden someone else with my collection of junk. My personal coin collection if you went and spent it as cash I would be a bit upset but no real value would have been lost. The 50 or so coins I have are merely novelty not valuable and fit in a plastic cup.