[email protected] writes:
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>I'm w/ Chuck on this one...the generation which survived the Depression
>has a whole different understanding of "need" than current ones. I, for
>one, am grateful that my grandfather <did> keep so much -- now, while
>some of it is, in fact, not valuable, other things are fond
>remembrances. Plus, all the old lumber salvaged from the old chicken
>coop or other places and stored in the haymow for 60 years or more came
>in <extremely> handy in the barn restoration. Not easy to find
>full-dimension 2x stuff anymore...
You are so lucky to have things of your grandfather's. When my
grandmother moved out of their home years after my grandfather died, my
youngest half-sister sister took everything. That, in itself, wasn't so
bad, but when she divorced her first husband, he took most of it. When
her second husband divorced her, he took the rest. Now the real irony . .
. she has two daughters, I have three sons. Seems to me the
great-grandsons would have more use for his tools than
great-granddaughters (especially the ones in question). Oh, well.
My solution is to watch for estate sales and pick up what I can. My
greatest finds of this past year are an old saw with a carved handle which
appears to have the original blade ($5) and a pair of ice tongs ($16).
The ice tongs will become a towel holder on my patio. The saw has been
used but mostly admired. :-)
Sadly, since I live in town, there aren't that many good estate sales;
most don't have tools of any substance.
Glenna