Just a couple suggestions , find someone else to give them to ...sea shells ..grand kids? Maybe start their own collection?
Keep just one or two of the favorites of a collection,and display them.
Photograph some items and make an album of memory, after all it is the memory we really want to hold on to.
With drift wood and sea shells you could make a wind chime, or several as gifts? and be sure to send the story along
In the same (full to sinking) boat
Cinda
