How do you keep family interested in heirlooms?
Nowadays with the fast-paced lifestyle, no matter what we want, say, or do is at our fingertips. We are considered the throwaway society due to products being made cheaper. Not to mention it is cheaper to buy new than to repair products as we did in the “good old” days.
Children are equally wrapped up in this modern way of life and family history and heirlooms can easily be lost.
How do we keep the antique value alive?
In previous generations, when there was absolutely no technology time was passed by telling stories. The stories would have been about family history or about how the parents and older generations lived and what happened during those times. Stories were an intriguing way of keeping history alive. The children grew up, repeating stories and passing them down to the next generation. This is how a lot of our history continued through the generations. History was also learned through letter writing or journals.
Today we can keep history alive with conversations as to how antique items were acquired and who it came from is one of the ways to keep families connected.
Young children love stories and they will be the ones to remember the times you shared with them not to mention all the fascinating stories of the antique items. This also creates sentimentality of the items where children are more inclined to value antiques and pass them down through their family.
Dinner conversations about who the antique belonged to and the history of where the item originated. This can be elaborated by doing research on the internet of the era in which the item in question was sourced.
Even if the antiques are not a family heirloom, children can be taught history around the piece through general research. It helps to see how products evolved from the past and through the decades.
Antiques in your home are a great source of conversation for visitors and guests, a time to learn about history and reminisce about the past.
Antiques can be integrated into modern homes today giving your house a unique style. Knowing how and what to select I will leave that for another conversation.
Joceline Ellis
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