Selling my Shadow Boxes
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325720)
Rockingham, Australia
July 15, 2016 7:30am CST
We have recently had our lounge and kitchen painted. We had to take down pictures, photos, a clock , a calendar and various other odds and ends including some printers' drawers which I used as shadow boxes for my smallest ornaments and treasures.
But I don't really want to put holes in the walls to put the boxes back up and I don't have enough tiny things to fill the shelves.
So, as part of our decluttering efforts, we're selling the drawers on a local website. Someone is coming to look at them tomorrow. Do you grow out of collections from time to time? And sorry it's such an awful photo.
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
@BellaDoc Kids can be terrible hoarders. Every week or two I'd remove 5 or 6 sheets of paper from the bottom of a drawer one kept his bits and pieces in. I didn't throw out anything that looked remotely precious but I was able to keep it down a little bit this way.
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
15 Jul 16
Anne has been listing things left and right on ETSY and has sold a few too.
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
It is much easier to get rid of/sell stuff if you can find someone who really wants them.
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
15 Jul 16
We haven't got room for many extras in our current home. We've had to let a lot of things go.
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Jul 16
We have plenty of room really but I'm not very good at dusting. And when we go it will be less for the boys to dispose of. It will be nightmare for them however much we get rid of. Of course, by then we could be down to a suitcase each in a nursing home. Now I'm getting depressed! 
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
15 Jul 16
I have collected dolls .. I had more that 300 of them but I have given them away one by one ..
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
16 Jul 16
@JudyEv I also know someone who had a room full of dolls because she used to make tham and sold them .. But not many people are interested in collecting them anymore.. She lost her livelihood ..
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
@epiffanie That's a shame. These fashions and fads come and go don't they?
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
15 Jul 16
I don't collect as much as I used to, but I'm really bad at letting go of things.
I had one of those hanging on my wall for years until one night the wire snapped and the whole thing came crashing down onto a bookcase in front of it. Most of the contents survived, but they'll been sitting in a box ever since. One day I'll have to sort through them and find a new way to display my favourites.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
16 Jul 16
@JudyEv I've always been nervous about breakables, so I lot of what I collect is made of metal. I'd also stuck a lot of the stuff down, so that helped too.
I know what you mean about dust being a problem though. That's part of the reason so much of my stuff is in boxes.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Jul 16
Years ago I had a few of those - I 'outgrew' them since they don't really fit the decor of this house. I had many different collections over the years - when we had a differnt style home I was into cow and chicken decor. I kept a few cow cookie jars, but the rest went the way I got them - yard sales
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Jul 16
That's about how I feel - like I've outgrown them. Hopefully they'll find a new home with someone who will love having them.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
15 Jul 16
@JudyEv everything old is new again - in a different home!
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill This was the first new home I ever lived in and, although it is now 13 years old, painting the verandah woodwork and the two inside rooms has made it seem almost new again. With only two adults in the house, there isn't a lot of wall damage etc so it seems like brand new again - with nicer colours.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
16 Jul 16
only because of space, why I started with post cards, I can have many many more that way lol
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Jul 16
@JudyEv that's one I am going to start, I rather like the idea, and I have a couple doors that magnets stick to too
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt That's handy. We really only have the fridge. I sometimes buy magnets when I'm overseas rather than bigger mementoes that eventually get stuck away in boxes.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
15 Jul 16
aw, i'd love to have 'em! i wish the hubs'd downsize, lol. i've wee collections, gifts from folks o'er the years. the hubs's massive collections. we ne'er outgrow 'em, his jest continue to grow :)
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
16 Jul 16
@JudyEv heavens yes! he tries to sneak more into the house, but i keep'n 'xtra close eye'n such. i've more'n plenty to dust 'n chase spiders outta, lol.
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
@crazyhorseladycx I can see your husband trying to sneak things in and you fending him off! 
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@just4him (306113)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Jul 16
I don't think it's awful. I think it's a good representation of what you're selling and I hope the person coming to look at it, likes it. I do. I haven't grown out of my collections yet. Though I have stopped buying anything new. I have four boxes already of knick-knacks and I'm not done packing them, and I have 17 oil lamps. I hope I'll have enough room for all my oil lamps in the new apartment.
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@just4him (306113)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Jul 16
@JudyEv I have the majority of my knick-knacks on my window seat which I've layered by placing a coffee table on top of it, which works very well. Then I have the rest scattered here and there in the living room and bedroom dressers. I know where I'm going to put the window seat in the apartment, so all my knick-knacks will be right where they currently are. However, the lamps might pose another problem and might not. We'll see. I have some with the knick-knacks.
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@just4him (306113)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Jul 16
@JudyEv I've been placing them in my mind already, so it will be fun to see it they will actually fit in that location. I also did some shopping at Wal-Mart today and looked at some things I'll be needing when I move in. For some reason I can't find all my towels. They seem to have just vanished. So I priced bath towels today. I haven't bought towels in a long time. They're expensive.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
16 Jul 16
I have one small shadow box that housed my collection of dragons. I use the past tense because I took it down one day to clean it and left it and the dragons on the kitchen bench. Of course Banjo knocked it down and most were broken and are still waiting to be repaired. I also have a miniature book shelf that holds my collection of animals. I'm not ready to part with any of these yet but I am formulating a yard sale in my mind to off load some furniture and crockery and other things I no longer have use for..
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
I still have all my little animals but most are displayed elsewhere. A yard sale is probably a good idea if you have enough stuff for it to be worthwhile.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16533)
• China
16 Jul 16
The shadow boxes look like our antique shelf.Hope you will fetch quite a lot.
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul 16
Thanks. We just sold a backpack a while ago so that is something else out of the cupboard.
@Tampa_girl7 (48929)
• United States
17 Jul 16
I have some shadow boxes too. I love my what nots that fill them
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@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jul 16
These boxes weren't full luckily and I've been able to display the items elsewhere.
@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul 16
It was lovely that this lady was so pleased. Often they um and ah but she had the money out as she came in the door. No way was she going to even haggle. :) It made my day just to see her so pleased.
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
15 Jul 16
A few years back I pretty much sold everything I owned. I'm very minimal these days.
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@BellaDoc (762)
• San Diego, California
16 Jul 16
@teamfreak16 Great going - I am envious!
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