Hi, all, I am helping my 82-year-old parents clear out their house in preparation for moving to something more manageable. My mom used to sew, and I am finding boxes and boxes of patterns from the 60s and 70s -- Simplicity, Butterick, McCall's, Vogue. Likewise, there are four double closets full of, um, typical suburban clothes and shoes, mostly from the 70s. My question is whether there is a market for them, given that they have been kept for 40 years in a house with at least two and sometimes four cigarette smokers. Everything in the house has a strong cigarette smoke smell; many things are brown with what I guess is deposited tar. (Veimru: Yuck.)
So before I tell my dad it should all go in a dumpster, I just wanted to check whether there was any point in trying to find a buyer for them. Likewise, though off-topic (because they are not costume books; apparently I developed that obsession on my own) are the books in the house rendered worthless by the smoke and tar? I am also hoping for some suggestions about how to get the smell out of the clothes, patterns, or books that I might want to save. Thanks for any thoughts you might share. Lauren [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
