The saddest items I’ve seen families sell as a pawnbroker including single mum who pawned family rings to pay her rent

HARD-UP households are selling off sentimental items at heavily discounted prices in a desperate bid to stave off the cost of living crisis.

Pawn broker James Constantinou, former star of TV show Posh Pawn, told The Sun he’ s seen a huge increase in the number of desperate families flogging their treasured possessions to scrape cash together.