What do you do with your mountain of old paintings?

Do I know that problem...our house is on the market and even though a move is not imminent I thought I had better start clearing " stuff" I put together about 10 paintings dug out from cupboards and from under beds. I took these to an animal welfare charity. I must admit I didn't hang around to see if they sold ( though I have been told since they have ) . I have given a couple as raffle prizes , a couple as presents , some ancient water colours I have taken out of frames and cut up into greeting cards , painted over canvases . The mounds of A1 life drawings I photographed the best and bonfired the rest. We have a local church hall who exhibit short and sweet in November and take up to ten at just a couple of quid hanging fee, I shall take ten and hopefully sell at silly money, .i have thought of having a garage sale and including some though how mortifying if no one wants them. The charity shop might get more ... I still have quite a few that are ( I think) worth hanging onto to exhibit. I have concluded that I had fun painting them so if I photograph special ones . Just let them go. As we are down sizing our home I really do need to have a cull. Anyone else any ideas. But silly me I am still painting even more. I even have a collection of paintings done by other artists . Maybe the answer would be to have one canvas and paint a pic then paint over it adinfinitum . Now I am begining to see why people do digital paintings..... Oh I have just remembered the dozens of sketch books I have .

Well - some get sold (not enough!); some get given away as gifts - usually to family members; some go up on the wall - though I'm running out of wall - and some get painted over. It's the rest that's the trouble - tucked under the bed; stacked against bookcases; crammed behind a filing cabinet. I do throw those that really didn't work, but that leaves me with a selection - or stock, as I should prefer to think of it - which have yet to find homes; and it grows, of course.... Lots of bargains to be had, then, and if I were you I should hesitate no longer - they won't be here forever you know! I hope.

As a temporary measure - I should make it clear I live in a very old house - I put an old painting on hardboard over a crack in the wall where a rat had got through. Slightly foolishly, I put the painted side against the hole - nibble, nibble, scrabble...... The critter just loved scraping the paint off and cleaning the board off for me: they're so thoughtful like that.... But an old painting on board can really come into its own now and then: I have things standing on them, and if I should break a window I'd have a ready-made wind-break.... Even so, I'm liking Erebus's November 5th idea .... they should burn well, especially the oils: if I could just get a couple of kids to wheel me through the village, we could make a small fortune: especially if we upped the denomination a bit: penny for the guy is so old fashioned, don't you think? Let's make it a pound.

I am rooting through all old stuff and painting over them, BOGOFs galore and good value. This applies to watercolours or other stuff although haven't got round to canvas yet, not many around luckily. Never put them for sale these days, not good enough but smashing for trying my new technique out