When you live on the coast, you have a lot of time to think about which things in your home are most important to you. At least once a year there is some sort of hurricane or major storm and, not wanting to be stuck on an island indefinitely, we evacuate. (It was the deal I made with my husband when we moved! I’m pretty sure he would never leave…) Generally, we don’t give it much thought.
Board up, pack a bag, hope for the best, come home and assess. But everyone has those things that are most important to them, those special, sentimental pieces that represent family or trips or happy times, the non-negotiables that they pack up and take when a disaster seems imminent because they would be heartbroken if they lost them.
It could be signed books, family silver, favorite, irreplaceable photos taken during a time when clouds lived in the sky, not on our cell phones and laptops. Collections, if you will, that don’t fall into the “it’s just stuff” category.
It could be a collection of treasured blue and white china, collected over generations and passed down or simply gathered through years.
Baskets adorning a wall
Or maybe even family china or linens, repurposed and much loved. For me, for years, it was nothing. But, when Hurricane Florence came, and maybe now, ever after, I took two treasures: an antique lapdesk and an early 1800s mother-of-pearl and sterling dessert set that belonged to my husband’s grandmother and was one of my favorite wedding gifts. It was far too beautiful for floodwaters.
Are you a collector–or a wannabe collector? What would you collect if you were going to start?
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Good Morning Girls,
Over the 60 years MC and I have been married, there are many items we cherish. There are things we would do our best to protect. And these fall into two categories. Items we would protect If we had time to pack them up and the objects that we would need to save in a moment !!!!
We don’t have collections, but we have family “treasures” that mean a lot to us and items we have picked up over the years.
We hope you will be moving back very, very soon.
xo
Patty