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    Selling Dead People’s Things is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners—while still alive and after their passing. 20+ life illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays.
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Posted onMarch 14, 2022September 2, 2022
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Introduction to “Selling Dead People’s Thing: Inexplicably True Tales, A Vintage Memoir”

Posted onApril 21, 2019

Now, I know you want to get going. You've been in my van for only a minute or two and you're already whining "Drive, Drive!" Okay, I get it. You want me to take you on another house call, meet the administrator of our next estate, then push me down a flight of basement...

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People, Not Objects: A Review of “Selling Dead People’s Things”… By Christina Zawadiwsky

Posted onSeptember 15, 2018September 15, 2018

'PEOPLE. NOT OBJECTS." Christina Zawadiwsky, 2018 - "Our objects define us, an old saying tells us, and as I was viewing the McQueen Movie (biopic of fashion designer Alexander McQueen), I realized that the dresses (objects) he created and the performance art myths he presented with them to the world did tell his...

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Posted onMay 22, 2018May 23, 2018

Selling Dead People’s Things is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners—while still alive and after their passing. An amusing observer of the human condition, author Duane Scott Cerny entertains in 20+ life illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays.

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Overwhelmed by the Stuff of Life, the Leftovers of Death? You Need Options, Organizing Options

Posted onMay 1, 2018April 16, 2018

An Interview with Mara Laza of Organizing Options of Illinois... Death, Divorce and Downsizing: These are the constants in our lives. Whether you’re buried in the mess of an inheritance, or perhaps one of your own making, how do you get your head above it all? You need perspective. You need help. No shame in...

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Vintage Confidential: Retro Rattled, Tales Tattled— Confessions of the World’s Third Oldest Profession

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Duane Scott CernyGraduating from Northeastern Illinois University on a poetry scholarship (crazy, right?), I stumbled from one soon-to-be-going-out-of-business employer to the next. Finally, I decided to try to fail in my own self-employment, founding a small legal word processing firm. Surprisingly, it was a success. CONTINUE

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