What are you going to do with your stuff when you die?

I think the other militaria will go to sales at one point, but the Finnish voluntary items from the German army 1941-43 I´ll put to the museum that will be there within 10 years. I heard one collector has some 20+ caps from the Finnish waffen-SS volunteers so wonder if he can give them away as today the youth is not very much into history here unfortunately. I hope to be able to make some kinda computer based 3D-program of the Finnish cities and what they looked like in the 1920´s with the photo albums and post cards I have.

 

Most of my stuff concerns the home front, a particular interest of mine. It tends to be rarer than the military relics, which as someone else pointed out are still available in reasonable quantities.

 

I have a lot of books in my personal library. I plan on donating a third of them to my school, and the two thirds will go to used book stores or libraries so that other people can enjoy what I enjoyed. I do have a few WWII relics, and I am not sure what I will do with that quite yet :unsure:

 

Maybe the big museums won't be interested in your "emotional" value ww2 things (or accept them, but locks it up in the cellar , and/or sells it lateron), but I find there are a lot of private museums started over the last 10 years of people who started it in their own garage. For sure they are happy to accept any "junk".

 

It all really depends on the rarity of the items along with the topic. For example, there is a museum up here in New Hampshire that focuses primarily on the US home front during the war. Great stuff and comprehensive. It's just a question of finding the right collection. If my son or daughter would like them, which is my hope, I won't have to go through the process. Just takes due diligence.

 

What stuff.
Kid will probably end up with a bill.

 

I think that I will seal what little I have up in a time capsule and bury it in the back yard.