Selling your family history

[peasea]

Yeah, have a look on trademe, theres alot on there.
The one I have got, my father picked it up in about 1960-61.
He worked a second job at a Servo in Palmerston North at nights.

TradeMe; now there's a dangerous place. I have enough shite lying around as it is.
Cheers.

[Skyryder]

History?!? There's members of my family I would sell.

Now that would be interesting. Post up a pic on TradeMe and go halves with them.


Skyryder

[firefighter]

Medals mean nothing.

Talk to any soldier - they will tell you the same.

The only family history that matters in the long run are the positive actions that family members do for each other. Everything else is just a meaningless trinket.

Really?! They mean nothing at all? I'd be seriously pissed at my grandchildren selling off MY medals, and yes they are worn on my left side on ANZAC Day. I did'nt do diddly to get them in comparison to the ones really earnt by the vets before, but i'd be truely let down if my family thought so little of me and what i've done as to just sell them off.

[SPman]

It has only been in the last ten years or so, that the wearing of medals of family members, has been P.C.

My great Aunts used to religiously wear the medals of their brothers who were killed in WW1, from the first Anzac day parades in Auckland in 1918 or '19 (I have the program somewhere)- but then, they needed something, having lost 75% of their fiances, friends and brothers.....I've still got them, including MM's, DCM's and one of the sister's MBE, notebooks and diaries (those that aren't in the Alexander Turnbull Library) - I also have german shell fragments.....chunks, with attached uniform threads, they removed from my grandfathers leg after he was blown up by a shell and wounded - and his service medals - I have family paraphenalia, letters and photos, going back to the 1830's - they go on down the line to my sons, but from there....??? Well, I'll cease to worry - I won't be around!

Dad refused to apply for his medals after WW2 - reckoned if they couldn't be bothered sending them to him as earned - he wasn't going to apply for the f**king things! A lot of his mates felt the same way..........

I'd need to be desperate to sell any, though!

[Big Dave]

All good being sanctimonious if you are travelling well. What If you need the money to put food on the table?

[Big Dave]

Now that would be interesting. Post up a pic on TradeMe and go halves with them.
Skyryder

I was thinking more Blues Bros scenario, 'Sell me your Cheeeldren'.

[pete376403]

As a non smoker, I still could not sell this ashtray.

Getting right off topic, sorry, but - I saw an absolutely neat model landrover, complete with 4 cylinder petrol engine, that was built using ashtray tyres. The size of the tyres dictated the scale of the model.
As you were.