I doubt whoever slept here allowed lightbulbs to be dropped just anywhere (lower-left corner) or kept their pillows on the floor next to that decent-enough mid-century chest of drawers.
You want to know what happens to the stuff that's left after an estate sale? There are a few possibilities. Sometimes the estate sale company auctions it online and takes a cut of the proceeds. That sounds like a tough way to make a living, but it beats working in a coal mine and its modern-day equivalents.
It can also revert to the people who own the house. But chances are they've already taken what they want and probably aren't thrilled to receive a bunch of beat-up suitcases, sour-smelling linens and a roomful of other random stuff. Even if some of it might be worth keeping.
Usually someone -- the owners or the company -- pays someone else a few hundred dollars to throw it all into a big truck at the end of the day and make it disappear. Don't you have room in your home -- and your heart -- for this psychedelic floral chest of drawers?
Who knows what happens to this stuff after that? It could end up in a landfill, a charity, or the storage spaces of incredibly canny collectors. After all, they're not making green ScotTissue in the 1000-sheet roll any more, and probably won't ever again.
This stuff might be worth a lot in the right market. There are probably a few places on Earth where these things might be considered riches.
And then there are things like these. Arrangements that you -- okay, I -- just want to buy up whole and donate to the Smithsonian Institution.
There's something kind of nice about this. I can imagine sitting down here and reading a book under that lamp and feeling perfectly content. At least for a little while.
The asking price was $45, and I'd bet that much it could have been purchased for $20 with no questions asked.I hope it found a good home.
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