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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 12:20:45 EDT
I have not moved house to boat, but
I've had 2 houses that had to be condensed into one house. (City
house where we worked and country house where we've lived since 1973)
I've also had to dispose of my husband's aunt's estate when she had no
children, but did have a will and some property.
- Step 1: Remove from the pile all family heirlooms and photos. If
your great grandmother had a trunk that she carried in a covered wagon
across the plains - don't dispose of that. Include jewelry, antiques
that are family antiques (I have some I purchased and they aren't
*family* antiques), letters, journals, Bibles and photographs. I've
got paintings done by my grandmother, Bob's family's Bible, an album
of photographs taken on a trip west by my mom's great uncle and things
like that.
Find out if anyone in the family is interested in having
these items. If not, find some secure storage. A safe deposit box
would be good if the items are small enough because the bank won't
just sell things off if you don't pay them like a storage unit place
will, and it isn't expensive.
- Step 2: Take to the boat all the items that will be or might be
useful to have on the boat. This includes tools, favorite cooking
pans, and your favorite cookbook etc. See if there is space for them.
If not, reorganize and/or remove other items to make space. There may
be stuff on the boat that should go back to the house.
- Step 3: Assess the remaining items. Send to auction intrinsically
valuable furniture, jewelry, silver etc. that's not heirloom quality.
This is much less trouble than a yard sale, and is faster than ebay.
Donate all non-antique usable furniture, and household items to an
abused women's center to help the women set up housekeeping on their
own.
Donate useable books to the library or the schools. (i.e. not books
that are so antique that they talk about the Belgian Congo.) Donate
children's books to the SSCA book project to get reading material to
children.
- Step 4: Take remaining items that are in reasonable shape to the
Salvation Army, Good Will or similar organization.
- Step 5: Take the rest to the dump.
grandma Rosalie
S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html
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