give it to me - am I selfish to sell my grandmothers prized collection to raise money for a deposit

[notsureifimselfish]

Nc. I inherited my grandmothers priced collection of plates. She loved them but since I have them they have just sat INA box and got in the way. Can't display any of them even if I wanted to as live in a cramped flat. I know she wanted me to look after them but they are fragile and could easily break as I've had to move regularly with dodgy landlords. Some of them are quite valuable.

Aibu to sell most of them to raise money for a deposit? I've fallen in love with a house that I might be able to afford if I sell them. I know it would of broken her heart but it just seems silly to have them sat in the airing cupboard doing nothing for me. I don't particularly like most of them, but would like too keep two of them ,(collection is 59,).

Give it to me honestly

Thank you

Sell them! You can't live in a box of plates but you can live in the nice house they will help you afford.
I have my grandfathers war medals and I wouldn't sell them, but plates, hell yeah!

sell, keep one or two though or you might regret that, when you have a lovely house to display them in.

I assume you have inherited these? If you have been given them and your granny is still alive (maybe gone into a nursing home/house sold), then I'd say you can still sell them, but she must never ever know about it.

What kind of plates are they
If it were my grandchild, I wouldn't mind at all, as long as some single item was kept in memory.
I have a Japanese tea set left to me by my granny. I loved it as a child. Never use it. Never will. But wouldn't part with it. Your case is different OP, and I would sell.

Would your grandmother really have wanted you to keep the plates and have no home?

I think it's nice to have stuff, but you don't need stuff and someone who loves you would surely rather you have a secure roof over your head than a load of stuff in a box. If it came down to one or the other.

Keep and display the ones you like and remember your grandma as the woman who through her generosity enabled you to have a home of your own to raise your family in.