What is treasure and what is just junk?
Who defines the value of an object?

Recently I’ve been hunting through the boxes in my grandpa’s basement , and he just doesn’t know what to do with all the "junk" (as he says) that my grandma had been keeping down there.

He said take what I want, and the rest he’ll get rid of.  He’s a stronger person than me, because I don’t know how I could get rid of all those collections of my grandma’s! She was an avon lady, and has just boxes upon boxes of vintage 50s avon soaps, perfume, and collectable perfume dolls.

Well, I don’t know how much they’re worth, but I just don’t know if I should get rid of all of them, but if I don’t, then what?  I took pictures because I’m pretty sure I want to scrap about them, but just like all of my grandma’s old photos from the 40’s, I’m at a loss as to how to use them. I think I’m going to just think about it for a while and do a lot of sketches. I just really want to do her treasures justice.

I also found my grandma’s braid that she kept from her teenage tomboy years- she finally decided to get her hair bobbed and had kept the braid ever since. I found letters that my grandpa had sent her when he was away in the army. But my favorite find of all was the scrapbook that my grandma made when she was in highschool.

I know I found a lot of treasures…. but now- what to do with them?
hmmmm…..