Re: Cruise Material

Rosalie, I'd give some serious thought to taking all the things to a large mini storage facility initially. Then, if it was me, I would contact a temporary Manpower-type service and hire a secretary type or researcher type to work for you over a couple months to catalog the items. Then working from the accessible things in the mini storage facility, you could begin to sell on eBay, donate to libraries etc. without disrupting you household.

Nonny

Rosalie B. wrote:
LeeNY <leeschw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 10, 9:26 pm, Rosalie B. <gmbeas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
LeeNY <lees...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 10, 3:11 pm, Rosalie B. <gmbeas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have found additional boxes with information about cruises my mom
went on in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Sometimes she saved everything -
menus and all other paperwork given by the ship. Sometimes not. What
would be a good thing to do with this material.
If you're not interested in saving it, maybe sell it on eBay? Check
over there and see if there are similar items available, just to get
an idea of whether or not there's even a market for it. There's a
collector for everything - I wouldn't be surprised if someone was very
interested in some of the stuff, especially if the ship name/logo,
cruise line name/logo, etc. is included on the papers.
Let us know what you decide to do.
I don't have time to sell it on ebay.

I guess what I'd really like is for someone to ask for it and I send
it to them, and they pay for the postage and then if they sell it to
give me 5 or 10% of their net.
There are a lot of places around that do all the ebay selling/shipping/
money collecting for you. I think it's a great business, and is ideal
for folks like you who seem to want to profit from the stuff without
making much effort. Not sure what their cut would be, but I suspect
they'll probably be on the 5-10% end, and you'd get the bigger chunk
of the profits.

I have done selling on ebay so that's how I know how much work it is,
which is why I'd be happy with 5-10%.

What you may not understand is that it has taken my sister and my four
children and my two nieces and one nephew and their spouses and many
auction house personnel of four auction houses 15 months to clear out
my mom's house, and we still have about three truckloads of stuff to
clear out before we go to closing at the end of the month.

I'm mostly interested in seeing that family heirlooms, pictures and
correspondence don't get sent to auction by mistake so everything has
to be individually examined. Just this week, one of the auction
people found a painting by my grandmother in the cellar that we had no
idea was there.

Getting the stuff packaged up to mail or ship to people is an
operation that takes time. I've probably more than 50 packages of
books and pictures and artifacts to non-family people that I knew my
mom wanted to have them and my sister has done similar.

She and dad were also photographers, and I have boxes and boxes of
slides and pictures that they took.

I tried three different ebay sell-for-you people. Only one of them
would come to the house, and he took one look and was so overwhelmed
that I never heard from him again.

My mom saved everything. She often said that everything she had was
collected by someone and that's the truth.

She also had almost every piece of correspondence - not only from her
children and grandchildren and my dad, but from her parents and
grandparents. She had letters from my grandfather's mother to my
grandfather and his mother died when he was 14 (before 1900). She had
letters from her mother to her and from her to her mother when she was
in college (1928 to 1931). She had letters from her grandfather to
her mother. She had the estate settlement letters from two of her
aunts and one uncle in addition to her parents and my dad. She had
several copies of all of the papers that my dad published (he did
cancer research) in addition to the one volume of his research papers
that she had already had bound.



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