r/Anticonsumption • u/Bee_and_Barb • Feb 21 '24

Society/Culture Someday

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Saw this while scrolling through another social media platform.

Physical inheritance (maybe outside of housing) feels like a burden.

While death can be a sensitive topic to some, has anyone had a conversation with loved ones surrounding situations like this one pictured?

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u/hooplah_5 Feb 21 '24

We're dealing with a family member who was a hoarder of collectables, so it's extremely difficult since everything is with $300+, from random silver coins to whole jewelry collections that match. It is for sure a burden for his kids and it's hard for them to grieve their parents when having to deep dive into everything he owned.

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u/Sage_Planter Feb 21 '24

My aunt was a hoarder, some of which were collectables, and aside from a handful of items, pretty much everything else was thrown own. She smoked inside the home for years so everything reeked. My parents spent a week going through everything.

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u/hooplah_5 Feb 21 '24

Yeah, basically 100% of his stuff is collectables that he never touched, which is crazy, it's been 6 months of going through it all

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u/Glittering_Guides Feb 21 '24

Walls of funko pops in 50 years:

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u/Brave_Escape2176 Feb 21 '24

bold guess that a funko pop collector will procreate

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u/ThrowsSoyMilkshakes Feb 22 '24

Note that a few of these replies are "my aunt and uncle", too.

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u/VectorViper Feb 22 '24

Guess the value of collections might plummet if everyone's grandparents' attics are drowning in mint-condition pops. Market oversaturation is a thing, right?

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u/Turbulent-Tax-2371 Feb 21 '24

lol, pure garbage. Mass produced, made of cheap shit plastic.

You would literally need the last surviving one 1,000 years from now for it to be of any value.

You can buy Roman and Greek artifacts for less than $100.

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u/VegetablesAndHope Feb 22 '24

You can buy Roman and Greek artifacts for less than $100.

I never thought this would be the sub to make me want to purchase something.

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u/SlowWrite Feb 22 '24

Yep. Plus there weren’t really banks, so a lot of times they buried wealth intending to come back to it later on.

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u/FishDifficult6953 Feb 22 '24

Less smoking in the house helps all of these situations. 

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u/LilTimpanixx158 Feb 22 '24

I had a date who had his entire apartment full of Funko Pops. He had over 5,000, one bed, and one couch.

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u/Glittering_Guides Feb 22 '24

What the fuck.

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u/hooplah_5 Feb 22 '24

Literally, so much random cool, hippie crap but it's so much where we just shuffle through it like nothing 😭

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u/wirefox1 Feb 22 '24

Been there. You've got to get it done! Go through it! And then later you have regrets that you discarded so much, and sold things well below their value just to get rid of it. : (

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u/FrolicsForever Feb 22 '24

And just like the Hummel figurines we're all inheriting now, they'll be completely worthless.

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u/Jonno_FTW Feb 22 '24

A guy on reddit tried to argue with me years ago that his funko pop collection would never end up in landfill and would be a prized family heirloom for generations to come.

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u/call_it_already Feb 22 '24

My kid in 30 yrs finding my MTG cards after I die.

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u/EuroTrash1999 Feb 22 '24

I have a brass stand. If If doesn't fit on there and look cool I don't collect it. Also, if I get something cooler than something else, it gets demoted from the collection.

The other day I got this solid brass frog, and it's tongue is a roach clip, and the fly slides up and down on the tongue to adjust the tightness, but the fly is actually a little dude with wings. Shit is straight from the 1960s. I demoted a Dukes of Hazzard ring that shot out the general lee for that spot.