Surprising Find

[jjkrkwood]

Maybe you can use those points for a nice trip somewhere !

 

I don't fly anymore...wish I did. Then I would ask @latbear4blk to introduce me to the joys of Brazil (eventhough I was there ions ago, but never experienced it like HE does)

[cany10011]

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I don't fly anymore...wish I did. Then I would ask @latbear4blk to introduce me to the joys of Brazil (eventhough I was there ions ago, but never experienced it like HE does)

 

Yeah, i‘d love to experience Brazil but am chicken to go there on own, and most friends are partnered up and their husbands will not let them go alone.....except one slutty friend who has limited vacation time.

 

There are a few gogo boys from brazil and several on rentmen... i‘m sure you can bring Brazil to you (albeit, their rates are probably 5 times more in nyc...) it’s still worth it...lol.

[cany10011]

If it’s any indication of my inclinations in that arena, my wallet uses Velcro and is waterproof...

 

I love the practicality!!

[cany10011]

NO, not a hot muscleboy escort for $100 hr......

 

One day I was looking for something I know I had, but couldn't find..... I looked all over, then checked a dresser draw I almost never look in... I didn't find what I was looking for, BUT I did find a brand new, pristine in box with dustbag Louis Vuitton mens wallet.... Someone must have given it to me YEARS ago and I put it away for safe keeping.... That's what us OLD people do, we SAVE things for that "maybe one day" moment, or those "just in case" times..... millennials aren't like us. they are "of the moment" and don't care about tomorrow.....

 

Anyway, I aint gonna use it because I already have another that I use, so I called the LV store, and after some research they told me they no longer make that model, but its value is $500.....

 

So I put it on EBAY, and accepted a best offer of $450.... Enough for a 1 hr escort with OVERTIME....

 

The point here is (since its not one of those Avalon posts) that we should hoard stuff.... I have downsized a lot over the last 2 years but only hit surface stuff.... I haven't searched every nook and cranny..... If you haven't seen it or used it in years, chances are it will survive you and someone else will DUMP it when you die.... Go thru your shit....you never know what treasures you will find ???

 

Going back to your original post you are right. we have too much. I have 4 Cartier watches and I was looking to buy another one the other day. What is going to happen to those watches? I don‘t even wear watches now (except going to the theater where phones are off), plus i pay for regular maintenance of those that I have.

[+ FrankR]

I like small nice things and recently purchased myself a monogrammed LV necktie and a Gucci card holder. Also another pair of Tom Ford sunglasses. Another salesman gossiped about me and said some really really unsavory things about me I was appalled but my salesman was great and Tom Ford is not in my home state. I plan to write a letter to corporate since it was so terrible.

You absolutely should! Corporate reads all customer complaints, even those on social media. But dont let it get to you! My grandmother used to say: Jealousy makes you nasty! He was probably jealous. ?

[jjkrkwood]

Yeah, i‘d love to experience Brazil but am chicken to go there on own, and most friends are partnered up and their husbands will not let them go alone.....except one slutty friend who has limited vacation time.

 

There are a few gogo boys from brazil and several on rentmen... i‘m sure you can bring Brazil to you (albeit, their rates are probably 5 times more in nyc...) it’s still worth it...lol.

 

 

Not sure what the rate per inch is these days ? But maybe I can find a short but THICK uncut one ? :p:p

[jjkrkwood]

If it’s any indication of my inclinations in that arena, my wallet uses Velcro and is waterproof...

 

Is it Mossimo ? cause I have one of those 2 for when I go to the bathhouse.

[jjkrkwood]

Going back to your original post you are right. we have too much. I have 4 Cartier watches and I was looking to buy another one the other day. What is going to happen to those watches? I don‘t even wear watches now (except going to the theater where phones are off), plus i pay for regular maintenance of those that I have.

 

Sell em… I find I can get rid of anything on EBAY, and if they are authentic, people are looking for that because NEW ones are unaffordable for most.

[jjkrkwood]

You absolutely should! Corporate reads all customer complaints, even those on social media. But dont let it get to you! My grandmother used to say: Jealousy makes you nasty! He was probably jealous. ?

 

YES, of Mr Powers HOTNESS !

[rvwnsd]

I just replaced my LV checkbook cover (yes I'm oldschool and still write checks)

 

@jjkrkwood I write checks for my bills and mail them! Always have

 

On behalf of the entire banking industry, thank you. Believe it or not, we actually make money processing checks for businesses.

 

I wrote a check last year...

 

Upon her death, sorting through my mother’s things was tedious. In boxes where she hoarded junk mail, I would find something like a hand written note from Claudette Colbert who was our neighbor in Barbados...or a hundred year old family photograph. I had to sort through every piece of paper. ..

 

The same father who felt knives, light bulbs, and religious icons belonged together would squirrel checks and cash away in books, boxes, you name it. The bank and tax records from 1964 were on the kitchen table. The previous-month bank statement? It was stuffed in the last book we looked through.

[RM]

I wrote a check last year...

 

Upon her death, sorting through my mother’s things was tedious. In boxes where she hoarded junk mail, I would find something like a hand written note from Claudette Colbert who was our neighbor in Barbados...or a hundred year old family photograph. I had to sort through every piece of paper.

 

I resolved that I would never do anything like that to my kids. I will not be a pack rat. Of course, I hope I have multiple decades to live up to that resolution....but I did finally trash my college text books last year...and I burned my bank statements from the 90’s (shredding would have taken too long)

 

I just shredded my bank statements last week, along with checks my parents wrote (Dad passed away 22 years ago) . I haven't tossed the textbooks yet.

[+ Pensant]

I prefer Hermes wallet as it is more discreet

I prefer a simple ballistic nylon Tumi that only holds 4 credit cards and a drivers’ license in the middle. I’ve used a monogrammed silver billfold from Tiffany since I graduated.

[studchaser]

I'm tempted to do that, but no airline points, and $1 a stamp. Here, almost all bills can be taken into the post office, they scan a barcode and you can pay any number of them with one cheque. Or you can use a CC (so, points) or electronic funds transfer there. As it is, the last cheque I wrote was July last year. (If you live in a small town, almost anything you can do at the post office will help keep it open.)

 

I have never written a check!!!!!

[+ nycman]

If it’s any indication of my inclinations in that arena, my wallet uses Velcro and is waterproof...

Well, that’s one surefire way to get me to pay for dinner.

 

I’d pay anything not to have to see that wallet!

 

Grin

[samhexum]

One day I was looking for something I know I had, but couldn't find..... I didn't find what I was looking for, BUT I did find a brand new, pristine in box with dustbag Louis Vuitton mens wallet.... Go thru your shit....you never know what treasures you will find ???

When cleaning out my mother’s house, I found my Grandfather’s passport to Japan ... from 1913.

The most humorous finds when we cleaned out my dad's house was the box hidden behind the water heater that contained carving knives, light bulbs, and a picture of the Virgin Mary.

Upon her death, sorting through my mother’s things was tedious.

Old beer cans, whiskey bottles found during home renovation worth thousands

 

A family found a “treasure” worth thousands of dollars hidden inside their home during a renovation — and it was in one of the most unlikely places.

 

When the family discovered that one of the columns on their front porch was full of empty beer cans and whiskey bottles, it turned out to be great news. The items dated back to the 1940s, and being in good condition, they’re potentially worth thousands of dollars on the collector’s market.

 

The collectibles were discovered in the column of a front porch in Kansas City, Fox 4 KC reports. The house was reportedly built in the 1920s and the empty drink containers date back to the 1940s. According to one of the workers, 100 cans came out of the column when they opened it up.

 

Amazingly, a chute was discovered near the top of the column. It appears as though a previous homeowner was hiding the evidence of their drinking by dropping the empty bottles and cans through the chute.

 

Now, decades later, they’re worth a decent amount of money to the right buyer.

 

“It was a jackpot of the 1940s,” homeowner Danielle Molder told Fox 4 KC.

 

“Every variety of whiskey and bourbon you can imagine. Tons of old vintage beer cans. Many of them in amazing condition. There are collectors and now, overnight, I have an extensive collection.”

 

While it may not seem like much, collectors are reportedly willing to pay comparatively high prices for these items.

 

“A quick Google research showed some of these Falstaff cans can go for 40 to 50 dollars. I’ve got at least 20 to 30 of these guys,” claims Molder.

 

Out of all the weird items a drinker could hide in the house, this probably the best possible outcome for the Molders.

[samhexum]

One day I was looking for something I know I had, but couldn't find..... I didn't find what I was looking for, BUT I did find a brand new, pristine in box with dustbag Louis Vuitton mens wallet.... Go thru your shit....you never know what treasures you will find ???

When cleaning out my mother’s house, I found my Grandfather’s passport to Japan ... from 1913.

The most humorous finds when we cleaned out my dad's house was the box hidden behind the water heater that contained carving knives, light bulbs, and a picture of the Virgin Mary.

Upon her death, sorting through my mother’s things was tedious.

 

A man found a Egon Schiele drawing in a New York thrift store, and it could be worth a fortune

 

A previously unknown drawing by Egon Schiele turned up in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens, New York, more than 100 years after the Austrian painter's death -- and it could sell for more than $100,000.

 

Schiele made the pencil drawing of a reclining nude girl in 1918, the year he died of Spanish flu, said Jane Kallir, director of Galerie St. Etienne in New York, who published the first complete catalog of Schiele's watercolors and drawings in 1990.

 

Schiele was part of Austria's expressionist movement and was mentored by Gustav Klimt.

 

Kallir said a man contacted her last year after buying the drawing at the thrift shop, but the photos were too blurry for her to tell much about it.

 

That happens all the time, she said. "We get hundreds of photographs a year, and most of them are fakes or copies or just misidentified as Schiele's work. We asked for better photos, and he took a year to get back to us."

 

The next set of photos was better, and she asked the man to bring the drawing to the gallery.

 

She wouldn't identify the man because he wants to remain anonymous.

 

Kallir said that when she saw the piece in person, she was 99% sure that it was the real thing, but she took some time to compare it the Schiele's other work.

 

"I wanted to see how this drawing fit with the other drawings," she said. "It fit perfectly, and I could almost pinpoint the modeling session from which it came, so then my initial gut was confirmed, and I said 'yeah, this is it.' "

 

Schiele did about 20 drawings of this girl and her mother, and Kallir said two were probably made on the same day as this drawing. Those works are now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria.

 

The drawing is now for sale in her gallery and on display as part of an exhibit called "The Art Dealer as Scholar."

 

If it sells, the man who found the drawing plans to donate some of the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity New York City, Kallir said.

 

"We are ecstatic!" Karen Haycox, chief executive of Habitat for Humanity New York City, told The Art Newspaper. "And, maybe a little bit in shock but ultimately really happy for all involved.

 

"I can't help but think that were it not for the Habitat NYC ReStore, this piece of art history might have ended up in a landfill, lost forever."

 

'Like a piece of junk'

 

Kallir says that TV programs like "Antiques Roadshow" and "American Pickers" give the impression that "there are treasures in every junk shop and every attic and every basement."

 

That's not been her experience. "I've been doing this since the 1980s, and this is only the second time something like this has happened," she said.

 

She says the man who found the drawing is a part-time art handler, picker and collector who has a good eye and got really lucky.

 

Schiele's work wasn't particularly valuable until the 1970s, and Kallir said this drawing was put in a frame in the '60s. At some point, the date and his signature were cut off.

 

"You're looking at something that, at that moment, wasn't worth all that much, that was framed in a manner that made it look like a piece of junk, so somebody gave it away without knowing what they had," she said.

 

National treasure in Austria

 

Kallir said that a lot of Schiele's work was brought to America by Jews and other Europeans fleeing the Nazis in the late 1930s and '40s, and more came in after World War II.

 

But Schiele was virtually unknown in the United States, she said.

 

"In Austria, where my grandfather had his first gallery, Egon Schiele is like a national treasure," she said. "He's one of the most famous artists of the modern period in Austria."

 

Her grandfather started Galerie St. Etienne in 1939 after coming to New York as a refugee.

 

"He devoted his entire life to studying this artist and making him better known, and when he passed away in 1978, I simply continued the tradition," Kallir said.

 

Edited July 26, 2019 by samhexum

[+ Gar1eth]

That's the whole point exactly.... Make it easy for others when you go, and free yourself from all the clutter. Its hard to let go, but when you do, you don't even think about it anymore. And like in my case, you never know what turns up.... Once its all gone, there wont be anymore Surprises....

 

I don't know about feeling better. But I was forced to give up over 90% of my stuff a year and a half ago when I had to move back home due to being jobless and my Myasthenia Gravis. Yes a lot (the majority) was junk. But while junk, it was my junk. Years before I had already lost a storage unit filled with comic books and books due to not being able to pay for it. I think about them occasionally.

 

Just yesterday I was thinking about my dinette table that I had until last year. It was a cheap wooden thing with 4 chairs. I bought it with one of my first paychecks in my first post-grad job. It made it thru 29 years, 4 different states, and 2 roommates (one of whom had a German Shepherd puppy that liked to gnaw on the legs of the chairs and table) with me. I probably got my money's worth out of it. I still miss it.

 

Gman

[jjkrkwood]

I don't know about feeling better. But I was forced to give up over 90% of my stuff a year and a half ago when I had to move back home due to being jobless and my Myasthenia Gravis. Yes a lot (the majority) was junk. But while junk, it was my junk. Years before I had already lost a storage unit filled with comic books and books due to not being able to pay for it. I think about them occasionally.

 

Just yesterday I was thinking about my dinette table that I had until last year. It was a cheap wooden thing with 4 chairs. I bought it with one of my first paychecks in my first post-grad job. It made it thru 29 years, 4 different states, and 2 roommates (one of whom had a German Shepherd puppy that liked to gnaw on the legs of the chairs and table) with me. I probably got my money's worth out of it. I still miss it.

 

Gman

 

Emotional attachment to things are just that, emotional, but once they are gone, the memories should sustain you, and the "lightness of your load" maintain you ?

[+ deej]

Old beer cans, whiskey bottles found during home renovation worth thousands

During some upgrades, contractors crawling around in my attic discovered an old (empty) can of Budweiser, from the era when the cans were actually tin and had "pop tops". It never occurred to me it might be valuable. I just assumed it was a message from the universe that I'd bought the right house.

[+ Gar1eth]

That's the whole point exactly.... Make it easy for others when you go, and free yourself from all the clutter. Its hard to let go, but when you do, you don't even think about it anymore. And like in my case, you never know what turns up.... Once its all gone, there wont be anymore Surprises....

Emotional attachment to things are just that, emotional, but once they are gone, the memories should sustain you, and the "lightness of your load" maintain you ?

 

I won't deny that there was some minor relief in getting rid of some of it. But I don't have a lot going for me in my life. These objects whether crap or not were a part of me for many years. Now they are gone. It was terribly depressing watching my stuff go, knowing I'll most likely never have the wherewithal to replace it. And maybe in some cases it wasn't what the objects actually were but a life and a lifestyle that is gone forever. And I have nothing to replace them with. So now I can obsess over both losses-the loss of my previous life and the loss of my stuff.

 

Gman

[jjkrkwood]

I won't deny that there was some minor relief in getting rid of some of it. But I don't have a lot going for me in my life. These objects whether crap or not were a part of me for many years. Now they are gone. It was terribly depressing watching my stuff go, knowing I'll most likely never have the wherewithal to replace it. And maybe in some cases it wasn't what the objects actually were but a life and a lifestyle that is gone forever. And I have nothing to replace them with. So now I can obsess over both losses-the loss of my previous life and the loss of my stuff.

 

Gman

 

Don't ever obsess...it will eat you alive. Just try to accumulate a few new things that make you happy. they can be small and inexpensive, doesn't matter. Life is about constantly making NEW memories.

[+ Gar1eth]

Don't ever obsess...it will eat you alive. Just try to accumulate a few new things that make you happy. they can be small and inexpensive, doesn't matter. Life is about constantly making NEW memories.

 

My new memories aren't great. I'm glad I'm here in the same city as my Mom. But I keep wondering how long at 84 she's going to be around. Other than that, most things are cr-p.

 

Gman