Personal Museum

It is pretty interesting to last long enough to see your house and all its immediate environs turn, before your very eyes, into a veritable little museum. This is helped along if you and yours have had a variety of interests, and if you've managed to avoid the usual catastrophes of fire, flood, tornado, meltdown, war, or having found it expeditious to move too often. It's also to advantage if you've cleverly ignored the orders of neatness freaks to get rid of your many little collections once the initial frenzy is over, and if there's been no one to come in and divest you of anything. That last proviso touches on the fact that Of course the value of this museum is visible only to you, so that you can never expect to gain one red cent from it, but that's not a bad thing either.