My MIL has tons of 'collectible' dolls, not sure what she thinks they are worth, but thank goodness she isn't in debt for them. I know after minimal research my vote would be to donate them to girls who need some fun.
Yes. These items are worth far, far more to a child than they are to an adult.
I of course tried to recoup the money spent on the items, but selling them and recieving $5 for a $100 item was my way of;
1)justifying to myself that my internal radar telling me these items are worthless was right
2)having valid proof to 'show' my mom that all those years of me telling her to quit buying stuff only to have her tell me I dont know anything was actually me being right and her being wrong.
and 3) My whole life I have had a fantasy of throwing away all the broken items she planned to fix, throwing away all the old deteriorating and badly maintained things she insisted were still worth something because she paid alot of money for the item, and to sell of each of those ridiculous dolls off one by one. The house looked like a bag ladies house when I got started, but man was it liberating to go through it!
I filled up 3 extra large driveway dumpsters, had a garage sale and made 4 grand in one day, and still had to pay a moving company 6 grand to haul 2800sft of furniture, dolls and collectible items to FL so I could go through it piece by piece and try to see if these items were 'investments' or junk.
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