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The Folly of “It Might Be Worth Something”

The Folly of “It Might Be Worth Something”

There's a better question you should be asking yourself.

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Aug 01, 2025
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I often encounter people holding on to things that:

  1. They don’t use

  2. They have no plans to use

  3. Are taking up valuable space.

Why do we hold onto things like this with no obvious utility?

Here’s what hooks so many of us: the idea that the item could be valuable.

People will go generations passing around stuff no one uses, no one plans to use, yet no one can bear to get rid of for this reason.

I’m here today with a reframe: They are asking the wrong question.

The question isn’t: But what if it’s valuable?

The question should be: What’s the alternative, realistically?

That grandfather clock that no longer works that a long-ago ancestor brought over on a boat (you think) might be worth a lot. If you’re going to use and love it in your home, wonderful. Problem solved.

But if not, realistically here’s what needs to happen for you to capture some hypothetical value from the clock:

  1. Locate a repair shop that can fix the antique clock

  2. Figure out how to transport huge thing to said shop

  3. After it’s working …

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