Cherished Teddies denouement

[wiliqueen]

After much investigating of options by Mom, my uncle's honorary son made a deal with the buyers of the house (which he also arranged) to throw in a few grand extra and keep (most of) the Cherished Teddies right where they are, presumably to sell off at market rates at their leisure

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[chelseagirl]

I think a lot about possessions these days

[wiliqueen]

I'm so sorry about your friend. It's so hard in fandom, when family has no interest in the parts of someone's life that we know so well and understand how they value.

It's good to think about, and to plan. My uncle is 73, and I think the serious inventorying he was doing of the Teddies (of which there are actually 2800 -- 900 was what my two girl cousins and I would have been dealing with each!) was the beginning of making a plan. It didn't happen until then because, even though he's been "retired" in the sense of no longer running a parish for several years, he was still teaching several university classes and volunteering as an airport chaplain right up until health issues forced him to stop.

So what I'm taking away from this is the importance of having a plan in place that we'll be able to easily set into motion to take care of everything with minimal effort, whether on my part or that of whoever gets stuck with the job. It's definitely percolating in my head.

[chelseagirl]

They wished she'd been someone less geeky. They came to the giveaway party, and were quite touched by her friends' reaction. (The burial had been private so none of us were there.) But they definitely didn't get her interests, at all. I feel lucky -- my dad and I used to watch Star Trek together, when I was growing up, so he got it, and my mum-in-law was in Babylon 5 fandom with my husband, though she didn't go to the cons.

2800! I cannot imagine owning that much of anything . . . except books, where I do have about 1500, but definitely want to decrease that by a bit . . . and I do NOT want them lying out on the curb two weeks after I die. Everything signed, unless I can't bear to part with it, goes on eBay the week I turn 70 . . .

[maiac]

Including the collection in the sale of the house sounds like a win for everybody: your family doesn't have to deal with Doing Something with the collection, and the buyers will, I hope, recoup their investment. There are many places in the Detroit area to sell vintage/antique/collectible stuff, and of course there's always eBay.

[wiliqueen]

Exactly! It was a stroke of genius on Honorary Son's part.

[maiac]

It also sounds like the house has just the right buyers. If they're willing to take the Collection, they're the kind of people who will take good care of the house, eh?

[wiliqueen]

Indeed! :-) I've forgotten the details of the explanation Mom gave, but evidently the mayor of River Rouge (or possibly Ecorse? He was running parishes in both concurrently at one point, and I'm blanking on which one she said) is involved somehow. I think she said he's buying it for a family member with kids who's been out of work, or something along those lines.