What is a yoyo?
This isn't like my marble collection - I bet you have yoyos in your house too.
Something catches my eye. I pick it up, turn it over in my hands, think "should I keep this?" can't really decide either way or a good way to get rid of it, and then whoops! Down it goes. Again. Bingo, a yoyo!
I need your help!
Each week, on Yoyo Day, I will post a photo and history of a classic yoyo. And you get to vote on what I should do with it.
Today's Yoyo
This is a really tough one for me. This china was my grandmother's - it is vintage Royal Albert circa 1930 in OK condition and is probably worth something but I don't know what. My mother shed it from her cupboards into mine and I have no china collection. I have struggled with the choices:
- Post pic and sell on Trademe
- Donate and let worthy charity pick up whatever bonanza is in store
- Keep because it is pretty and does have sentimental value
If it does have sentimental value for you, how about a compromise between 2 and 3? Donate the solo saucer, keep the cup and saucer. It IS pretty!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the yo-yo concept - I know exactly what you mean!
Well, that would be a pretty easy solution to my first yo-yo, even though it doesn't clear the whole space away... thanks!
ReplyDeleteI like the donate-keep option too. But perhaps you could figure out a way to use and display the cup - I have three mismatched vintage cups in the bathroom cabinet, holding my few pieces of make-up (the large one) and bobby pins (smallest one) and nail scissors, tweezers and some such in the medium size one :) Having a real use for them justifies keeping them. Now, the china my grandma painted with her own little hands, a whole set, is a completely different ball game.. (Keep for my daughter, ask my siblings if they want it...)
ReplyDeleteI like that, but I will have to think of a way in our house that it can be used with being in immediate danger of breakage by interested children.....
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