Some of you may have seen my post yesterday about trying to sell my 12 place-setting fine china set.

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10. EBAY is why collectibles are not worth much

An auctioneer told me this. Before EBAY, any given thing was scarce in a given locality. My husband and his sister fought over a specific Dalton their mother cherished that was so rare. Now, there are about 15 listed on EBAY. Last I looked, many were listed in the $300 range, but the only on that sold, sold for about $7. After my husband died in 2016, I sold his old vinyl record collection for a pretty good price. Just a year later, record companies started producing new vinyl of old records with much better quality. I probably lucked out. Same with baseball cards after about 1970. Just know they’re worthless. So just declutter and don’t leave that burden to your kids.