You highlight a real issue - the value of all ones belongings. Fire, water damage or theft will result in an insurance claim for … who knows how much. I’m in the process of selling a second home and one potential buyer asked for a price if they were to buy all the furniture and fittings. On one hand, if each item was priced as new, it came to quite a large sum. On the other, priced as a lump sum for second hand in order to move a property sale forward, it didn’t come to that much at all. But going through each item took time and research. And that was not the little stuff that adds a lot to the total of belongings - books, pictures, jewelry, equipment in the kitchen or shed, and on and on and on.
Now you mention it, I do have books, mostly music biographies.
I’ve just realised, once I’ve read them, they just sit in a bookcase gathering dust.
I doubt anybody else would be interested, I have very specific musical tastes.
I don’t like reading Ebooks, and it would be very difficult to find the stuff I’m interested in online anyway.
That’s a tough situation, swimfeeders. It’s such a shame to lose so many good books, especially the gardening and cookery ones with beautiful photos. I agree with you, making a list and photographing everything is wise, even if it feels boring at the time. It really does help when unexpected things happen. Thanks for sharing the reminder, and I hope you’re able to get fair value for those hardbacks and technical reference books.
It’s such a shame to lose so many good books, especially the gardening and cookery ones with beautiful photos. I agree with you, making a list and photographing everything is wise, even if it feels boring at the time. It really does help when unexpected things happen. Thanks for sharing the reminder, and I hope you’re able to get fair value for those hardbacks and technical reference books.