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Dec 13, 2023 13:46:12   #
BebuLamar
 
mr spock wrote:
It's really sad that each succeeding generation seems to be less and less interested in the "old" stuff their parents/grandparents cherished.


Some do but many don't and those who don't do not deserve to have the stuff.

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Dec 13, 2023 14:22:41   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
TriX wrote:
I agree - a different disposable world, where “new” is the key word and noting is repaired or cherished and maintained, just replaced with another “new” one. Not my philosophy. We cherish things from our parents and grandparents, and I think/hope we’ve passed a love of fine old things onto our children.


Things don't have to be big or valuable. On my dresser now I have several things of my Mom's: a very nice ceramic duck, a couple of small nesting birds, and a light green Chinese container. I also have her Hummels. I have several memorabilia from my Dad including the Michigan game ball given to him in 1939. He ran off the field with the ball after intercepting the last play of the game against Ohio State in 1938, but, as a junior, they wouldn't let him keep that one. I have a DeKalb pocket knife from my Mom's Dad. He sold DeKalb corn seed when he wasn't planting and harvesting it himself. I have the end of a box of Hercules dynamite, which my Dad's Dad used in the coal mines. It has Hercules stamped on it. Hercules is my Dad's name, too. A few more things: my Dad's M sweater and ring given to him by the Detroit Athletic Club. None of those things would be of great consequence monetarily, but they are very important to me. Oh yes, a few programs from 37-39, a scrapbook of clippings and team photos from 37 and 39, the latter of which included Tom Harmon, Michigan's first Heisman winner, and of course, the father of Mark Harmon.

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Dec 13, 2023 14:59:01   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
SteveR wrote:
Things don't have to be big or valuable. On my dresser now I have several things of my Mom's: a very nice ceramic duck, a couple of small nesting birds, and a light green Chinese container. I also have her Hummels. I have several memorabilia from my Dad including the Michigan game ball given to him in 1939. He ran off the field with the ball after intercepting the last play of the game against Ohio State in 1938, but, as a junior, they wouldn't let him keep that one. I have a DeKalb pocket knife from my Mom's Dad. He sold DeKalb corn seed when he wasn't planting and harvesting it himself. I have the end of a box of Hercules dynamite, which my Dad's Dad used in the coal mines. It has Hercules stamped on it. Hercules is my Dad's name, too. A few more things: my Dad's M sweater and ring given to him by the Detroit Athletic Club. None of those things would be of great consequence monetarily, but they are very important to me. Oh yes, a few programs from 37-39, a scrapbook of clippings and team photos from 37 and 39, the latter of which included Tom Harmon, Michigan's first Heisman winner, and of course, the father of Mark Harmon.
Things don't have to be big or valuable. On my dr... (show quote)


That’s very cool - sounds like your dad was a great athlete. We have my mother’s baby shoes and our children’s, some bronzed, a Christening dress used for generations and old B&W photos, many dating back 100 years to daguerreotype days of my family, friends and our town. No color allowed in this gallery. My mother never kept anything not absolutely necessary - maybe that’s why I’m different - I have every toy and school paper and athletic award my sons ever touched in my attic. They can keep or toss it when I’m gone



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Dec 13, 2023 15:07:09   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
TriX wrote:
That’s very cool - sounds like your dad was a great athlete. We have my mother’s baby shoes and our children’s, some bronzed, a Christening dress used for generations and old B&W photos, many dating back 100 years to daguerreotype days of my family, friends and our town. No color allowed in this gallery. My mother never kept anything not absolutely necessary - maybe that’s why I’m different - I have every toy and school paper and athletic award my sons ever touched in my attic. They can keep or toss it when I’m gone
That’s very cool - sounds like your dad was a grea... (show quote)


Love the picture and the hallway of photos. Two of my favorite possessions are two drawings by my oldest daughter and my son. Both were drawn when they were young children, in "young child style," shall we say. My daughter's picture has her laying asleep in bed with a balloon picture above of her dreaming of playing soccer. My son's picture is of a young boy holding a golf club, with the wording above, "I liak to play golf."

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Dec 13, 2023 16:59:05   #
Horseart Loc: Alabama
 
TriX wrote:
I can confirm that


I'll bet every one of us can...sooner or later.

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Dec 13, 2023 17:36:01   #
d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA
 
You people don't have that kind of time.... 🤣

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Dec 13, 2023 18:49:42   #
RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
 
SteveR wrote:
I worked at a library for some time and learned how librarians work. They are not interested in keeping important works. They are only interested in circulation, i.e., how much circulation is their branch getting. If they can get rid of older, significant works that aren't circulating and replace them with something new that will, they'll do it without even thinking.


If you have non library hardback editions of books and are hopeful of having them move into the future, you would be far better off donating them to a bookseller rather than to a library.

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Dec 13, 2023 19:08:33   #
RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
 
pendennis wrote:
I've used the "Dawn" solution for years, but whatever you do, don't use alcohol. I have repaired a number of pens with new bladders, as well as the Parker Vacumatic pens (a special "sac"). I also have a few spare parts to replace side-mounted lever assemblies. I have a friend who also collects, and he's been able to remove the stains from white Duofolds using ultra-violet light. I've had quite a few nibs re-tipped and I also have the necessary grit media to smooth them.

At the peak of collecting, people would pay nearly any price for certain Waterman's, and especially the rare Duofold Mandarin Yellow versions. Though prices have come down a bit, the Mandarin's have gone at auction for as much as $4K.

One of my favorites is a Parker 51 Flighter with an Italic nib.
I've used the "Dawn" solution for years,... (show quote)


Here is a recipe for pen flush:
9 parts of distilled robbery
1 part 5% ammonia
3 drops or so of Dawn soap

To use: water rinse thoroughly
Pen rinse at room temperature; do not soak
water rinse again.

Many fountain pen companies sell a fountain pen flush; Penchalet for example. I suspect you already knew that.

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Dec 13, 2023 20:59:38   #
RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
 
Horseart wrote:
Moving 3 years ago was a terrible experience for me. My granddaughter wanted to rent my house with the option to buy it. 3,000 feet packed full. I told her it would be a while because being in my 80s, it would take me forever to clean it all out. She said she would clean it out so she could move in it ASAP. She said she'd pack everything in boxes and put it in the barn so I could come and get what I wanted when I was able, so I could sell what I didn't want to keep. I told her I'd knock something off the price of the house if she would do that. Agreed, right? I took what was absolutely necessary and moved to Alabama. She cleaned out the house. Instead of me selling the contents of the house, she kept some, sold some, gave some away and trashed the rest. She trashed things that belonged to my mother, my grandmother and my great grandmother. When they do things like that, they never want to see you or speak to you again because they have to face you with what they have done. No, I am not hurt, just still a bit angry.
Moving 3 years ago was a terrible experience for m... (show quote)


Your granddaughter's loss is far greater than yours. Hindsight is always blessed with more acuity than foresight,

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Dec 14, 2023 00:50:43   #
Horseart Loc: Alabama
 
RodeoMan wrote:
Your granddaughter's loss is far greater than yours. Hindsight is always blessed with more acuity than foresight,


She has robbed herself and her children of much more that I'd have gladly done for them.
I will be long gone before she realizes the error of her ways.

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Dec 14, 2023 08:31:32   #
Canisdirus
 
SteveR wrote:
In the process of moving from one house to another, we did get rid of a lot of "stuff!!." However, I'm still going through boxes and coming across what I would call "sentimental junk" which I have to decided whether to keep or chuck. The one particular item in question is my Parker india ink pen from the fifties. I may have been ten or eleven when I received it as a gift. I remember writing letters with it to my cousin. But, it has been in a drawer for years and will never be used again. So....keep or chuck?

What similar pieces of sentimental junk do you have?
In the process of moving from one house to another... (show quote)


I still use fountain pens...have five of them...keep it.

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Dec 14, 2023 12:36:47   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
I’d just add that a small ultrasonic cleaner works wonders on clogged nibs ((or clogged printer heads for that matter). Back in the days when engineering drawings were made by hand in ink using Rapidiograph pens, an ultrasonic cleaner was a necessity. You can still buy them from K&E and others.

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Dec 14, 2023 15:10:25   #
pendennis
 
TriX wrote:
I’d just add that a small ultrasonic cleaner works wonders on clogged nibs ((or clogged printer heads for that matter). Back in the days when engineering drawings were made by hand in ink using Rapidiograph pens, an ultrasonic cleaner was a necessity. You can still buy them from K&E and others.


I still have most of my Rapidograph pens, although my supply of India ink is long gone. I never tossed my lettering templates or my rulers.

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Dec 14, 2023 15:16:43   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
pendennis wrote:
I still have most of my Rapidograph pens, although my supply of India ink is long gone. I never tossed my lettering templates or my rulers.


Me either - somewhere, there may be a Leroy lettering set in its wooden box. I did most of my drawing and designing with regular lead holders (and later various size Pentels) on regular drafting vellum, but when I did contract design for IBM, they required ink on blue linen (a PIA to make changes on) lasted forever and made beautiful blue line prints. I really enjoyed drafting and designing - worked my way through college that way (plus the GI bill).

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Dec 14, 2023 17:30:19   #
Ed Commons
 
I donated a lot of my books top the library. A tax deduction and others can have a chance to read them / or but them from the annual library book sale ( fund raiser for the library

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