Think of it like this, if someone somewhere didn't sell their grandpas 1911 where would you have gotten yours? 
I watch the show as well. When people exit they usually talk about spending the money on a good dinner and then gambling since they are in Las Vegas. If selling an old item provided new money for something like preping or starting a business it is one thing for perishable items it seems sad to me as well.
I have downsized to smaller homes 5 times in the last 25 years. If you don't want to have pig trails through mountains of stuff, you have to release some of the heirlooms relatives have left you. I always figure the new owner now has a good story about how they cheated the little old lady out of her antique whatnot.
I was just thinking about if I had a daughter that might be into something like my moms old antique silver tea set. I would melt it down and sell it in a second but my kid might like to have something that belonged to their grandmother they both enjoyed and could be called a family heirloom. However the kid I would have would most likely be a raging meth head and sell it to score.
Couple of years ago my grandfather on my dad's side passed away. My grandmother decided that everything would go into the estate auction, because she couldn't take care of a 160 acre farm by herself. Her thought process was, if it has sentimental value to you, then bid on it. My grandfather had several items that different members of the family wanted, including several guns. Nothing anyone wanted left that property with someone other than a family member, and my grandmother now has a small home in town and a new car, which she has never had before, to use in her remaining years. If she hadn't done what she did, we would still be sifting through years of accumulated stuff. Most of what we accumulate in our lives is just that, stuff. I agree that there are things that we just shouldn't let go, the hunting rifle my father gave me will never leave my hands, but things that are gathering dust in a closet might be a treasure to someone else. Just my humble opinion.
Yep, some do. My buddy gambled away his 600K retirement, 200K home, all his guns, tools, furniture, and finally his wife. Bad stuff for some folks.
The most egregious example of this on Pawn Stars was a year or two back when some guy brought in a silver spoon by Paul Revere that was passed down through his family for a couple hundred years and they valued it at $30k and the dude ended up selling it for like $8k to help pay for a daughters wedding. Mental retardation to sell such a long term family heirloom that was museum worthy for pennies on the dollar to finance a stupid wedding. A lot easier to borrow $8k and pay it back than to retrieve a family heirloom of that stature.
I hope that one was fake because it about made me sick.
I hope that one was fake because it about made me sick.
Sometimes being able to eat and keep the lights on is more important than heirlooms.
WOW... That is terrible. Poor guy. (No pun intended).
This is how I see it also. GC says he's not gonna die before me now ... Afraid I'll get on the "pay it forward" thread and give away all his "stuff" ... LOL Poor guy ... I'm trying to think if I have anything with that much sentimental value and I can't come up with a single, solitary thing ... Just my kids, GC and my friends ... That's the only "stuff" I treasure ...
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