About 20 something years back a wildfire worked its way up my street. Back from work, I had 15 minutes to evacuate. It seemed like the fire was doors away from me. I looked around at a room full of old toys, tons of paper, screenplays I’d written, journals, you name it. I only had time to choose one thing. I picked up my silver baby rattle that I’d recently found in a box of goodies. I put it in my pocket and walked out with the first toy I ever had. Seemed fitting. After the first item you bond with, everything else is icing on the cake. Out of the canyon I waited and wondered for a couple of days if my world was still there. In some way I had said goodbye to all my stuff. And the oddest thing… when I came back and eveything was intact and safe - I found I had to re-acquire it in my mind. Take on the burden of it all once again after I’d said goodbye to it and made peace with the loss. Will never forget how odd that felt. Such is life in the world of collecting.
Alan > On Oct 16, 2019, at 7:28 PM, Ira Rubenstein <irubenst...@pbs.org> wrote: > > Well said. And I see we have a lot of similar tastes. While I enjoyed > my time in California, I would live in constant fear of wild fire and > can’t even imagine of what I would grab if I had to run in ten minutes. > > > > Sent via mobile. Please excuse typos and autocorrects. > >> On Oct 16, 2019, at 9:39 PM, David Kusumoto <davidmkusum...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> * I confess I sometimes get a little depressed realizing that a life span is >> nearing its end - vs. being in the beginning or in the middle - during heady >> days when I cared less about the time unfurling ahead of me - and more about >> trying to OWN everything. >> >> * There were "bumps" that caused me to downsize unrelated to aging - e.g., >> wildfire evacuations and the crazy exercise of toting out my fav framed >> one-sheets in less than ten minutes. >> >> * But as decades pass and I realize my nostalgia doesn't line up with the >> nostalgia of younger generations - the urge to purge - (vs. letting your >> survivors cherry-pick through your stuff after you're gone) - gets stronger. >> >> * When you've liquidated a few estates it hits some of us that we don't want >> to put our survivors through the hassle of choosing - and then dumping >> things they know little about - to Goodwill. >> >> * So I think I'm like a lot of people in that what I have left today - has >> far more sentimental value than actual $$$ value - (or almost no dollar >> value). Two things that pull me out of my funk: >> >> 1) Gifting things to younger adults who express an appreciation to own movie >> memorabilia - thus giving them a gateway into a hobby that seems forbidden >> to them now - and hoping that if it takes hold like it did for me - it will >> grab them by the lapels and not peak for them - until they reach their late >> 40s through their 50s, and... >> >> 2) ...selling things - knowing that a future buyer will give them a good >> home - and will cherish them for however long they can - until they >> themselves - like I did - decide to move on. >> >> * So while there's an element of sadness about divesting - I am in love with >> the idea of passing things down as a means of preserving them well after I'm >> gone. And to feed my nostalgia - I can always look at photos of what I used >> to own "back in the day." (See below.) >> >> * I never got a chance to own any $$$ horror paper - simply because I could >> never afford it. So I would say that my collection was likely a >> "mid-tiered" one - representing titles I really loved. >> >> * Another aspect of getting older and divesting - is I can now show "a >> little bit" of what I used to own - without worrying about security issues - >> esp. now that the "gold" is gone. My lobby card collection is also gone but >> I used to own hundreds that aren't pictured here. -d. >> >> P.S. - And almost everything I collected - with the exception of Beatles >> memorabilia and comic books - I purchased from dealers who are or were >> members of this very MOPO group! (With the probable exception of the late >> Deke Richards and that couple who ran That's Entertainment" in PA - from >> whom I scored some incredible prizes! I can't believe I've forgotten their >> names. 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