It's 2066 and a grieving 54 yr old has to figure out how to throw away boxes and boxes of their dead parent's funko pops.

All unopened in box.

Just stick them with the Beanie Babies.

The difference here is that until recently things used to be well made and built to last. It's easy to buy a bunch of junky tools etc that might last a few years but it sometimes amazes me how people don't understand that owning a few good quality tools that will last forever is vastly preferable to giving them away.

Same is true with a lot of other things, but of course this is only relevant if you're going to use them.

Don't overlook survivorship bias. There was plenty of cheap junk being sold 50 years ago.

Also, good things still exist, they are just marketed as commercial/industrial and carry the corresponding price tag.

But they will easily last 20-30+ years with good maintenance.

Mom still uses grandpa's can opener. I still haven't managed to buy one that would work that well too.

Yes.

Alao furnitures. Though they are out of style I would totally accept the well made furniture my parents own than the shit we tend to buy nowadays at ikea and similar that don't last 2 moves. Problem is partner would probably not accept it.

I live out of a carry on bag mostly. My stuff is pretty minimal but the heaviest things I own are the books. I have some really weird old ones too, like one for learning german from 1939 and another on how to survive an atomic bomb from 1946. Just weird shit that's hard to find and hard to let go of.

I tend to like doing book trades though so it pays off on my travels.

Oh, I hate moving my books. And they'd fit on a 8 meter shelf.

at one point I was moving a stack of books and realized I'm essentially moving thinly sheared off logs around. It was quite a visual to imagine me moving stumps of logs around the size of small UHaul boxes. That's essentially what that quantity of books felt like when divvied out into small cardboard boxes to push the load into bite sized chunks.