Wow again. How much stuff can one person have (Lots!!)

Hi, I received some pics of the vehicles at the sale. I'll try to get some of the 'good stuff'. Linda Here is a link that might be useful: Estate sale

My cousin called me one day last August to "come get whatever you want out of your mother's storage building, because the rent's up at the end of the month." My brothers, their wives, & my cousin had already been through it: My mother's sister (my cousin's mother) hadn't been up to sifting through stuff at the time: she was in her mid-seventies, she was recovering from a virus, it was August in Texas, & the storage building was a metal structure on a concrete slab. So I went down & started going through things. About an hour into my explorations, I called my cousin & asked him to get his mother to meet me at the building. The things that were left were *mostly* trash & junk, but I knew there was some reason that some of that stuff had been kept all these years. I had a box for myself, a box to take to my mother's church for their kitchen, & a box for trash. When my aunt arrived, I showed her the books I'd started tossing into the trash. She was aghast: "This is Mama's geometry book!" Her mother, my grandmother, was a pioneer: She had graduated from high school in an era when most girls dropped out in about the 8th grade & helped out at home until they married. Back then, you had to pay for your own schoolbooks. This book had her name in the front, & her pencilled notes in the margins. and there were a couple of more of her books in there, too. So those books had been passed down & passed around for about 70 years, & my brothers, my brothers' wives, & my cousin, not knowing that they were, had left them for me to probably throw in the trash. Thank goodness I called my aunt! She kept the schoolbooks. When she, as she puts it, "can no longer enjoy them", my cousin is to be sure that they go to her brother or to one of us cousins or another descendant. Since my brother now has a grandson, the books could one day belong to the original owner's great-great-grandchild.

1940s, based on the restrained modern lines ... probably walnut veneer. It looks nice. My method for old stuff is this: 1 - clean it thoroughly with mild soapy water to get any water-soluble stuff off. 2 - clean it again with mineral spirits and really fine steel wool to get hand-grime oils and the rest of the dirt. Rub GENTLY with the grain, don't scrubbity-dub in circles. 3 - Wipe it thoroughly with clean dry cloths to get all the steel wool residue and loosened dirt off. 4 - Find any good penetrating finishing oil, such as Watco's "Danish Oil", perhaps even one of the tinted ones to even out the color. Follow the directions on the can. You can go darker easily, but not lighter, so a medium brown oil would be like a color refresher for the piece. . And beware of reddish tinted stains and finishes because they can be really, really RED.