OMG, I am SO the grandfather clock person! I would have kept it in storage when I moved, or asked my sister to keep it in her basement until she quietly threw it away. I'm so glad you found someone who would love it too.
The first time I moved to Italy, I did keep the clock in storage. Along with a bunch of other things I thought I was going to move across the ocean.
I did not move anything to Italy.
And when I returned to NY, I moved the clock right back into a tiny apartment until I moved to SE Asia and I decided to keep nothing but some Christmas decorations, a porcelain cat, and my nice, white linen bedding.
I sold or gave away everything else. But nobody wanted the clock. And this is going to stress you out, but I was emotionally preparing myself to have to put the clock out on the curb, if you can believe that.
I don't know if I would've actually done it. But I don't know what I would've done if moving day came and it was still in my apartment. I'm not gonna lie, those last couple of days when I thought the clock was going on the curb were not even a little bit fun.
I did that with my sci fi collection - luckily my friend who stored it gave it to a library a couple of years later when I was emotionally able to cut ties... I am married to someone who collects - hoards? - as much as I do and we are attempting to downsize. We have a few months still, but it's hard!
OMG, I am SO the grandfather clock person! I would have kept it in storage when I moved, or asked my sister to keep it in her basement until she quietly threw it away. I'm so glad you found someone who would love it too.
The first time I moved to Italy, I did keep the clock in storage. Along with a bunch of other things I thought I was going to move across the ocean.
I did not move anything to Italy.
And when I returned to NY, I moved the clock right back into a tiny apartment until I moved to SE Asia and I decided to keep nothing but some Christmas decorations, a porcelain cat, and my nice, white linen bedding.
I sold or gave away everything else. But nobody wanted the clock. And this is going to stress you out, but I was emotionally preparing myself to have to put the clock out on the curb, if you can believe that.
I don't know if I would've actually done it. But I don't know what I would've done if moving day came and it was still in my apartment. I'm not gonna lie, those last couple of days when I thought the clock was going on the curb were not even a little bit fun.
I did that with my sci fi collection - luckily my friend who stored it gave it to a library a couple of years later when I was emotionally able to cut ties... I am married to someone who collects - hoards? - as much as I do and we are attempting to downsize. We have a few months still, but it's hard!
I'm not much of a "collector" of things, but the things I hold on to, I tend to really hold on to.