Have a gone too far?

[Duck on Wheels]

Well .... in the past 4 years: How many times have you used that dress? How many times have you used your bike(s)? Now imagine that in another 20-30 years' time you have a daughter thinking of getting married. Some might think "Oh, how romantic if she uses my old wedding dress." But how likely is it that the dress fits? How likely is it that she has the same tastes as you had 2-3 decades earlier? Did you enjoy picking your own dress? Would you deny her that pleasure? Of course, by selling the dress you're denying a hypothetical daughter one hypothetical option, but she could always use one of your wedding pictures and have a copy made to fit. So ... yeah, if you want to hang on to that dress another 100 years until it has unique cultural value as an antique, I'm sure the great-grandkids will thank you for the memories. Or, you can enjoy more bike stuff now and decide that the wedding pictures are enough as memories of the dress.

Of course, it's easy for me to say. I wore maternity pants and a Guatemalan embroidered blouse (lovely blouse, but later torn climbing in a window once when I'd locked myself out). So don't rely on my old-lady wisdom. Trust your own instincts; do what feels right for you.