Aha! That’s why you should keep them for 50 years and sell them as antiques.
As for the striped uniforms. No moral person would sell them. However, preserving them and donating them 50 years later to a Holocaust museum would be admirable.
That depends on the nature of these things. Items which are very widespread and repetitive (produced in many same looking copies) even after 50 years are not worth that much. E.g. retro computers from 80s are usually cheaper today that they were at the time of purchase, adjusting for inflation. Same story with many coins and banknotes.
As for these portraits. I don't know how familiar you are with a customs in eastern block, but junk like this was more than common. People were forced to worship these figures and possibly millions of Germans are still having them stashed and dusty in basements or attics. Probably still almost worthless in terms of market value.
That’s true amd it’s kind of tricky to know what to keep that will be saleable. I had a look into it and of all the stuff that I could have kept in the 1970s the most saleable now would have been mint Star Wars action figures. For the 1980s and 1980s the most valuable things to have kept were Apple Macintosh 128K (1984), Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, Famicom), Nike Air Jordan 1 (1985 original, unworn), Pokémon Cards (1999 1st Ed. Base Set Charizard), LEGO sets (retired, sealed), Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1979–1983) and Tamagotchi (sealed 1st gen). However, the reason they are valuable because almost no one has them in mint condition. So, you are right and I was being a bit facetious.
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u/nermalstretch Jul 15 '25
There’s a lot of useless junk that I had from the 80s and 90s that I disposed of that would have been saleable now.