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Scott Tracy and Jennifer Spencer moved their estate sales business from Texas earlier this year and opened their consignment store, shown here, in Bluffton in July.
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“People just don’t know what to do,” Spencer said. “They aring for others, especially seniors, has always been a big part of Jennifer Spencer’s life. In fact, caring for others don’t even begin to know how to organize things. How would is her way of life. Her new business helps deal with the you even go about that? Because it’s a lifetime of things that details when someone downsizes, moves to a senior facility are there.” To Spencer and Tracy, this is more than a or passes away. business. It’s a service to their new community. The new Lowcountry resident recently “It’s a huge relief when we come in and say, opened the doors to Relics Estate Sales and ‘OK, you don’t have to do anything else. We’re Consignments on Persimmon Street in Bluffton, a going to take care of everything for you. You can business she started with her fiancé and business WE REALIZED worry about all the other things, we’ll take care of partner, Scott Tracy. The couple had several successful years IMMEDIATELY THERE all of this,’ ” Spencer said. There can be a lot to take care of, especially performing estate liquidations back in Dallas, WERE NOT ANY when you’re grieving. Texas, but a desire to move closer to family drew “We deal with a lot of family conflict,” them to the Lowcountry. SERVICES HERE WE Spencer said. “I was a home hospice nurse, “We literally came to just check it out and PROVIDE. SO WE so my background was dealing with that a lot. wound up signing a lease on our condo that day,” Spencer said. “We realized immediately KNEW: LET’S JUST You’re dealing with death, and then everybody starts to fight over the little things. I have a lot of there were not any services here we provide. So DO THIS. experience in that as a case manager.” we knew: let’s just do this.” It can help to have someone else around in times like these. Plenty of folks around here will be glad they made that “We have a lot of situations,” she said, “and we can be a kind move. Culling through a lifetime of items — and the memories they’re wrapped in — is a monumental task. When combined of buffer in between whoever is the executor of the estate and with the emotions surrounding an estate sale, the chore can the other children.” Estate sales aren’t always tragic situations, but they are seem impossible. That’s where Spencer and Tracy step in. 42 hiltonheadmonthly.com