Topic: News
Who's Going to Want
Grandma's Gnomes?
By JEFFREY ZASLOW
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal Online
In Graytown, Ohio, 51-year-old Doug Martin has amassed a collection of 5,000 pencils, most of them never used. Some date back to the 1800s.
He sometimes wonders what will become of his prized collection when he dies. Will his children stick them in a sharpener and write with them? "It hurts to think about it," he says.
Young people today have little interest in the stamp, coin or knickknack collections of their elders, so an aging America can't help but wonder: What's going to happen to all those boxes in the basement?
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