Morning TV thought
Nov. 14th, 2005 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What gets me about the BBC TV show, Cash In The Attic:
Typical British family needs some money for some semi-vulgar purpose -- trip to a theme park, fancy night out, videogame console, etc.
So the TV show crew comes in and combs the house for anything of value to sell, to pay for that purpose.
"This diamond ring your late grandfather used his life's savings to buy, which was originally owned by the family of Winston Churchill, and which saved your grandmother's life when she was trapped in a car underwater and she used it to cut through the glass, and which was celebrated in a 1950s TV documentary, Diamond Ring of Destiny -- it'll fetch at least 40 pounds at auction! You're well on your way to that Playstation Plus!"
So many of these families get rid of unique family heirlooms for a pittance, to pay for consumer goods, or transitory things like Eurodisney trips, or spa weekends.
Wankers.
Typical British family needs some money for some semi-vulgar purpose -- trip to a theme park, fancy night out, videogame console, etc.
So the TV show crew comes in and combs the house for anything of value to sell, to pay for that purpose.
"This diamond ring your late grandfather used his life's savings to buy, which was originally owned by the family of Winston Churchill, and which saved your grandmother's life when she was trapped in a car underwater and she used it to cut through the glass, and which was celebrated in a 1950s TV documentary, Diamond Ring of Destiny -- it'll fetch at least 40 pounds at auction! You're well on your way to that Playstation Plus!"
So many of these families get rid of unique family heirlooms for a pittance, to pay for consumer goods, or transitory things like Eurodisney trips, or spa weekends.
Wankers.
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Date: 2005-11-14 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-14 05:55 pm (UTC)Pratts and twats....each and every one!
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Date: 2005-11-14 06:22 pm (UTC)Some people hold onto way too much "stuff" way too long. I like the Clean Sweep way of getting rid of stuff, where they at least discuss why some things should be let go. Now if I could just implement that around my place! ;-)
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Date: 2005-11-14 06:29 pm (UTC)When we moved out here, we had so many books we needed to get rid of ... and, for us, getting rid of books has a very high degree of difficulty. We wound up getting rid of many "popular" books that were likely to remain in print or be otherwise available. We also had to disabuse ourselves of the notion that "getting rid of a book" meant we were passing judgment on it, like we'd condemned it and would never be able to read it again.
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Date: 2005-11-14 06:28 pm (UTC)Everything Right is Wrong Again..
Date: 2005-11-14 06:37 pm (UTC)Bleargh!
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Date: 2005-11-14 06:51 pm (UTC)Re: Value
Date: 2005-11-14 07:00 pm (UTC)Re: Gershwin
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Date: 2005-11-14 09:01 pm (UTC)However, sometimes it's not the item, but the memory that is the important thing.
I had enough family heirloom furniture to furnish my 5,000 sf house back in Georgia. What it amounted to is that I was maintaining a museum for several generations of my family, at great cost.
I gave what I could to family, they didn't want much of any of it. When I moved to SF I took two plates, a small table and a clock. I sent the rest to an estate settlement company to dispose of. It wrenched my gut.
In the end I find it's the memories in my head that keep me grounded to my heritage, not the items.
For what I got for the stuff I could have taken a month off and gone to Europe. I think that my family would agree that would be more important than to hang on to a bunch of things.
Besides, isn't going to EuroDisney a trip to Europe? LOL
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Date: 2005-11-15 12:20 am (UTC)Hmmmm.
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Date: 2005-11-15 01:07 am (UTC)