What would you do?

I am still casting an eye backwards to my fab vacay at home with the folks ... and to some furniture I left behind when I moved to Toronto five years ago.

This isn't much to look at now, stored in my sis's garage and all and heaped with junk, but five years ago it sat on a snowy curb in January outside an Ottawa antique shop for $250 ... until I bought it, that is.

It's a mammoth and Art Deco? style mantle/faux fireplace that actually came with a plug-in 'fire.'

I never moved it to Toronto as it's SUPER heavy - made of plaster or some such material - and would cost me mega bucks to move it up.

But oh, I love it so.

I doubt I'd be able to sell it for much on Craigslist, even though I'm betting these type things are all that plentiful in the vintage world these days.

It may not be the most USEFUL of furniture pieces, and I bet you may be having trouble imaging it a la decorative Grunge-Queen splendor with that pylon on the top, but I know I could, if I want to lay out the cash to get it up here, make it totally work in space (even if it meant letting go of something to make it fit in here).

What would you do? Sell and make some extra cash, though not much I bet, or spend cash to get it here and keep it forever?

Right now it's making me a little weepy to think of it all alone and forgotten in that garage.