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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t uncommon among the very wealthy. [/quote]

My sister has an inlaw like this.  My sister, her husbands and daughter are the only family the relative has left.

The woman and her husband were Dinks and very career focused.  He was in corporate something; she worked in entertainment.  Her handbags were her children, literally.  Their entire mansion is packed with designer clothing, expensive handbags and top level shoes, many vintage and mostly barely worn in mint condition.  A lot of stuff was,never worn with tags still attached.  The wardrobe went back decades, longer than I have been alive.

My sister and her kids will have to move her into an adult facility soon.  They are dreading helping her go through the stuff.  There are rooms of it.  The older relative said that my two nieces, who are young adults not into that kind of stuff, will get everything.

Maybe I will show them this thread to cheer them up so they can work up the energy and motivation to store and catalog the stuff, until the time comes for them to inherit it all.  Right now they just keep wondering why one person needs so many expensive handbags, shoes and clothing.[/quote]

There are estate sale businesses that will help them do this when the relative passes. [/quote]

I have heard of estate sale auctioneers, I think the main attraction is the ease of handing the process over to someone else who has no emotional attachment to anything and avoiding family squabbles. Everyone thinks their stuff is worth far more than it is these days. The reality is that we’ve been in a glut of consumerism (and product consumption) for a while.

One of the early warning signs I remember was when it started to be more expensive to repair something than to just buy a new one. Repairs to appliances and electronics (aka TV repairman) went out the window.

Even at goodwill there have been posts from people who work there who say that they have to sell a minimum dollar amt of merchandise every day, which results in those weird price increases that make up fodder for those message boards or subs. When new items of the same kind can absolutely, frequently, demonstrably be had for less.

Jeans seem to be at the top of the fashion list. $100 for a pair of vintage Levi’s, stuff like that. That wasn’t the thrift atmosphere when I was younger. One of my absolute favorite coats through HS was probably $20, it was a giant gray tweed Peter Pan collar swing coat that no one else had. I loved that coat. You probably couldn’t find that today. [/quote]

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