So much stuff
I'm trying to organize my craft room (yay, a craft room!) here at the new house, but it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I need to get rid of a TON of vintage clothing and fabric. It might actually be a literal ton. I haven't been very discriminating in my vintage clothing and accessories purchases, as long as they're cheap. I'm not allowing anything to go into the attic space here, but unfortunately that's where most of my less-nice clothing was stored at the old house. That means it either has to fit into my craft room or go bye-bye.
The main problem is "The Collection." You may or may not remember that I purchased 8 garbage bags full of vintage clothes in fresh-from-barn condition. I had to toss many wool pieces and a few other ruined pieces but about 7 garbage bags remained. "The Collection" consists mainly of women's clothing and several dozen bras. There are nice clothes, a bathing suit, a nurse's uniform, jodhpurs, and workaday clothes. I hate to separate them as they represent a (perhaps incomplete) slice of a 1950s wardrobe. The jeans would sell for a pretty penny and a few other pieces, too, though. That's money I could put toward reenacting and other things. If you had a collection like that, would you separate it? The alternative is I keep it forever or sell it to a museum (assuming any would be interested in slightly stained run-of-the-mill clothes).
I plan on selling some nicer pieces from the rest of my junk on Etsy, and probably some of my barkcloth and other weird vintage fabrics. I also need to re-acquire a booth at an antique mall to dispose of all of the little crap, vintage brik-a-brak, dolls, etc. that I have been hoarding and now have no place in my new house (life). I have a staggering amount of vintage Christmas stuff that needs to go, and vintage Barbies too. Unfortunately, I hate shipping stuff, so only the most valuable will end up on Ebay.
Didn't know I was such a collector, did you?
The main problem is "The Collection." You may or may not remember that I purchased 8 garbage bags full of vintage clothes in fresh-from-barn condition. I had to toss many wool pieces and a few other ruined pieces but about 7 garbage bags remained. "The Collection" consists mainly of women's clothing and several dozen bras. There are nice clothes, a bathing suit, a nurse's uniform, jodhpurs, and workaday clothes. I hate to separate them as they represent a (perhaps incomplete) slice of a 1950s wardrobe. The jeans would sell for a pretty penny and a few other pieces, too, though. That's money I could put toward reenacting and other things. If you had a collection like that, would you separate it? The alternative is I keep it forever or sell it to a museum (assuming any would be interested in slightly stained run-of-the-mill clothes).
I plan on selling some nicer pieces from the rest of my junk on Etsy, and probably some of my barkcloth and other weird vintage fabrics. I also need to re-acquire a booth at an antique mall to dispose of all of the little crap, vintage brik-a-brak, dolls, etc. that I have been hoarding and now have no place in my new house (life). I have a staggering amount of vintage Christmas stuff that needs to go, and vintage Barbies too. Unfortunately, I hate shipping stuff, so only the most valuable will end up on Ebay.
Didn't know I was such a collector, did you?