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Dec. 8th, 2010 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzSomething about nothing - auction shows.
I was in on the trend of cable auction shows: Pawn stars, pickers, and now there is a discovery channel one about an auction house...and I can't stand them.
Over and over they show people bringing multi-generational family items and pawning them for cash because only do they not care about their family or any romantic notions about property, but at best they give lip service to "I think my grandma would be happy that I got $300 for this blunder-bus!"
I have some family objects, and while I don't think they have particular value, I'm not tight with my family and they're kind of all I have along those lines. I would leave them in a raging fire or for a bazillion dollars, but no I'm not going to sell the radio that sat in my grandma's parlor for $50-$500 on a short-term treat for me. Suppose I buy a cruise or an xbox - how does that compare to the irreplaceable thing-from-family?
Why do all those chumps not care about their family memories?
Or, if they don't care, why are they so lazy they don't research the value on their own and sell them at full value before they hand them off to someone else who will try to get the going rate?
Why I care when all I have to do is not do it and change the channel I can't answer.
I was in on the trend of cable auction shows: Pawn stars, pickers, and now there is a discovery channel one about an auction house...and I can't stand them.
Over and over they show people bringing multi-generational family items and pawning them for cash because only do they not care about their family or any romantic notions about property, but at best they give lip service to "I think my grandma would be happy that I got $300 for this blunder-bus!"
I have some family objects, and while I don't think they have particular value, I'm not tight with my family and they're kind of all I have along those lines. I would leave them in a raging fire or for a bazillion dollars, but no I'm not going to sell the radio that sat in my grandma's parlor for $50-$500 on a short-term treat for me. Suppose I buy a cruise or an xbox - how does that compare to the irreplaceable thing-from-family?
Why do all those chumps not care about their family memories?
Or, if they don't care, why are they so lazy they don't research the value on their own and sell them at full value before they hand them off to someone else who will try to get the going rate?
Why I care when all I have to do is not do it and change the channel I can't answer.
