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every time i go to an estate sale i get closer to finding god.
looking through someone’s entire life and home feels wrong to some
but i think its beautiful! if people we love can’t live forever, their trinkets and memories can.
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I hope some spunky bitch with a cool haircut is rifling through my items in 2090 for a trinket to take home and cherish
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There’s something so cool about walking through someone’s former home and navigating their possessions. You get a feel for who they were and what they valued, and a sneak peek into their own personal treasure trove.
Someone’s last remaining items can have an entirely new life, and the world can have one less item in the landfill.
It’s like forming your very own chosen family of heirlooms and cherished valuables!
Jan 6, 2025
i love stuff perhaps a little too much and it’s impossible for me to pick a single trinket but in general i think the stuff that i own that’s the most important to me at this point is stuff i’ve gotten secondhand at estate sales vs just bought new. assigning a personal history to something older than myself, keeping things that meant something to someone else meaningful for a little while longer.
started going estate sale-ing summer after i finished college with a great friend i made at school, which feels like the start of becoming the me i am now and collecting stuff that i really intentionally wanna try and keep for the rest of my life. pictured below is a grail from my first ever estate sale: a yearbook from my school 100 years before my graduation.
it’s the first thing you see when you walk into my apartment, the first place i lived in alone long-term - kinda wanna keep it by every entryway as i move apartments.
Mar 26, 2024
The opposite of decluttering. I’ve gotten watercolors painted by the departed, photographs of the people they cared about and had hung above the bed, a well-used typewriter from a mom-and-pop repair shop that no longer exists, and 19 sheep—all sold together—of various materials and so many other things.
It’s like a museum of strangers and cities passed and I like to think they know I cherish their memories and hold their lived dear.
May 29, 2024
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if you ever have the opportunity to go with one of your parents to where they grew up, take it. you’ll hear things you’ve never heard before, see things they saw, bask in their nostalgia with them.
ask questions
listen to their childhood playlist
i believe we’re closer now than we were before we arrived.
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