RE: Old Family Heirlooms: Keep, Sell, Give Away, or Destroy Them?
Every household appliances, including toys, have their respective histories to remember. Family heirlooms have a variety of forms and represent every period. Your toys Tom @donkeypong, may be inherited by your children—but probably not because every toy has its own time. In my country, as a child, I had to make my own toys instead of buying like kids today.
I think we should have our own museum inside the house to store valuable heritage items—maybe it's a clean and well—kept warehouse. The more advanced civilizations, the greater the longing for the past. The goods that once were very valuable, then we no longer use because of the progress of the times. As the times progress, they enter the warehouse, or are destroyed by the matter of the place, the time to "take care of it," or we never think of saving it.
In many malls in Indonesia, items from the past are now resold at high prices such as bicycles, flasks, plates, spoons, typewriters, stamps, antiques, and more. If I still keep these items, of course, have benefited. I am reminded of some kind of rare wine that you keep at Tom's house (a few months ago you wrote about it).
But I think, not all the heirlooms we have to keep at home. Only a few species are valuable, unique, and have an important history in the journey of our lives. When filming the movie set in the 1960s, perhaps the heirloom is much needed.