Estate Sales, You Views

Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 9:24pm (EST-2) [email protected] (WD) says:
<snip> It is a crime to dispose them so cheaply what you have collected
during your lifetime.
What do you think?

I think if you want any tool(s), or anything else, to go to someone
specific, put in your will.

On the other hand, if your relative(s) dispose of expensive tools
for low prices, they deserve to get less than they could.

I still remember a tool chest I was promised many times. But,
either it didn't get in the will, or they disregarded the will, because
I was out of the country, and never read the will. About 4'X3'X2.5',
and full of wooden planes, saws, etc. As an example, the dozen or more
planes went for $1 each. At least the relatives got shafted on the
prices. I don't think they got $50 for the whole lot, including the
chest.

Once my kids get my stuff, they're free to do whatever they want
with it. Keep it, sell it, dump it in the trash. I'm gonna have other
things on my mind, so I'm not worrying about it.

JOAT
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WD wrote:
> I do not go to many estate sales, but this one make me thinks. Once
> you are gone, it is only a matter of days, the living will dispose
> everything you really love while you are still alive. I love good
>
> What do you think?

easy come...easy go.


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On 3-Nov-2003, Bannerstone <[email protected]> wrote:

> Basically I just hope that I don't own anything anyone will fight over when I'm
> gone.

Leave the tools and stuff to a youth club, school, inner city training
centre, charitable group... that will ensure that they are put to good use.
Let the relatives squabble over the stuff you don't care about.

Mike

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 21:24:14 -0700, WD <[email protected]> wrote:


>What do you think?


It's _STUFF_.

When I leave this life, I have a feeling that I won't care about
"stuff" anymore. <G>

As far as in this life, stuff is still stuff. Nice to have and nice
to use, but if I had to give it all up, it's still only stuff. I
would survive.

Who you really are, especially when no one is looking, is more
important than what you have.

Barry

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:16:08 +0000, Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

>
> If I could no longer use my tools, I'd not sell them cheaply. I'd give them
> away. (I may change my mind if I was eating cat food to survive, or course)

In moving and downsizing, I no longer had room for the vacuum tube ham
gear I had built/bought in the early sixties. A fellow from halfway
across the country wanted to put together a "vintage" station and took the
stuff off my hands for the shipping costs. Sure made me feel better than
putting the stuff in the dumpster.

-Doug

Wife and I do allot of auctioning. It can be a cost effective form of
entertainment. She buys to resale and i buy to use.


And where else could I get a #7 Stanley for $20?



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suspense. (Gaz, r.moto)

"WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message >
>
> It is a crime to
> dispose them so cheaply what you have collected during your lifetime.
>
> What do you think?
>

If I could no longer use my tools, I'd not sell them cheaply. I'd give them
away. (I may change my mind if I was eating cat food to survive, or course)

I've had tools that I no longer used. I've had the opportunity to sell
them, but I found a person that needed the tools more than me so I gave them
away. Yard sales? Nah, put the stuff at the end of the driveway with a
sign that says "free" and let others have them. Desk, TV, sofa, -- all
gone. If a stranger is better off for it, good for them.

There is some sentimental value in my tools. Does that add to the cash
value? No, but it adds to the satisfaction of letting someone else get use
from them whether to earn an income or as a hobby. I guess it depends on
what gives you more satisfaction; a twenty dollar bill in your pocket or an
acquaintance saying "look what I made with the router you gave me!"
Ed

WD
I'm 63, retired and have a model shop, my wife has joked about the great
vacation she'll have from the sell of my tools after I'm gone. My shop has
given me a great deal of pleasure and while I'm still able I'll continue to
enjoy my hobby and share the fruites of my labors with family, friends, and
charities. I'm certainly not in any rush to die, but die I will. I would
hope that some of my shop treasures will be passed down to family, beyond
that I could care less. It really isn't about what happens to my stuff when
I'm gone it's about what I'm doing with it while I still live. I know the
gifts from my shop are appreciated, the tools and what skills I've gained
are
important to me but have little value to most people unless I use them.
Naturally I take good care of my tools and have enjoyed restoring a number
of old deralict tools to display and use, and I've even made replicas of old
hand tools just for the pleasure of having something I couldn't otherwise
afford. The tools are for my enjoyment and the sense of accomplishment
gained from using them to the best of my ability to make something that
sombody else can take pleasure in. So if you want some of my tools when I
die more power to you, I will already gotten everything I could hope to get
from them.
Gary

"WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I do not go to many estate sales, but this one make me thinks. Once
> you are gone, it is only a matter of days, the living will dispose
> everything you really love while you are still alive. I love good
> tools, especially if you are once an A&P mechanic. It is a crime to
> dispose them so cheaply what you have collected during your lifetime.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
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My dad was an A&P too and just about anything else he wanted to try his hand at,
masonry, cabinet work, etc. He passed when I was 20 and my sibs and I scrapped
over his tools, it really sucked. Now that I've established a solid collection
of tools and my woodworking has surpassed the sorts of thing my dad ever
attempted, my sibs want me to have his things again and make use of them again.
Oddly enough my Dad's tools don't mean as much to me now, my own tools mean more
and many of them were bought at estate sales. What's sad is that I can't share
with my younger sibs the memories of using those great old tools with my Dad
while working on people's homes in our community.

Basically I just hope that I don't own anything anyone will fight over when I'm
gone.

David








In article <[email protected]>, WD says...
>
>
>I bought a almost new Crapsman's Dado, a try square, 5 lbs. of
>stainless steel safety wire and other woodworking items. I did not buy
>the Sears radial saw as I do not need them. In the garage there is a
>Troy Bilt tiller, a motor cycle, a new stroll saw and many well-cared
>machines and tools in excellent conditions. My wife bought a Singer
>sawing machine a few kitchen items.
>
>As we walked away from the house, I feel very sad. We might have been
>great-friend. We have many things in common. I too was an A&P
>mechanic (and a degree ) from Northrop in LA. He was also an A&P
>mechanic with TWA in Denver Colorado. Everything he owned is well
>kept. In the bookshelves beside the fireplace were old training
>manuals; B707, DC9, Convair 880, L1011 and the P&W pocket handbook
>(1961). I have also worked on many of these aircrafts including
>Convair 990.
>
>I do not go to many estate sales, but this one make me thinks. Once
>you are gone, it is only a matter of days, the living will dispose
>everything you really love while you are still alive. I love good
>tools, especially if you are once an A&P mechanic. It is a crime to
>dispose them so cheaply what you have collected during your lifetime.
>
>What do you think?
>
>
>
>
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Well said. You been taking lessons from Tom Watson <g>?

-Phil Crow

"Sweet Sawdust" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Not far from where I set is a shed/shop full of wood working tools, once
> owned by a man who spent many hours working with them. They have set there
> idle for 10+ years a monument to him. Dirt and rust now cover the once
> polished cast iron, dark cold silence broods where once was light, warmth
> and the sound of creation. My tools have become my friends and companions
> even though they are cold hard metal, every ding, worn spot, stain are known
> to me and tell stories. When I no longer need them or can use them I would
> prefer they go to someone who will use and treasure them as I have, not set
> cold and idle as a useless monument to my memory. I have old used tools
> from people I don't even know and every I use them the unknown person who
> cared for them before me is remembered and Lives for a few more seconds
> through his/her shared use of a tool.
> "WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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"WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> As we walked away from the house, I feel very sad. We might have been

I don't go to Estate sales or Auctions - they depress the hell out'a me.
Auctions especially - grew up in Farm Country and saw too many family farms
sold off one bolt at a time.

I think the original owner would be pleased that some one like you received
them. Treat them with the same care that he did. Think about him from time
to time when you pick one up.

Who could ask for more than that?

"WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I bought a almost new Crapsman's Dado, a try square, 5 lbs. of
> stainless steel safety wire and other woodworking items. I did not buy
> the Sears radial saw as I do not need them. In the garage there is a
> Troy Bilt tiller, a motor cycle, a new stroll saw and many well-cared
> machines and tools in excellent conditions. My wife bought a Singer
> sawing machine a few kitchen items.
>
> As we walked away from the house, I feel very sad. We might have been
> great-friend. We have many things in common. I too was an A&P
> mechanic (and a degree ) from Northrop in LA. He was also an A&P
> mechanic with TWA in Denver Colorado. Everything he owned is well
> kept. In the bookshelves beside the fireplace were old training
> manuals; B707, DC9, Convair 880, L1011 and the P&W pocket handbook
> (1961). I have also worked on many of these aircrafts including
> Convair 990.
>
> I do not go to many estate sales, but this one make me thinks. Once
> you are gone, it is only a matter of days, the living will dispose
> everything you really love while you are still alive. I love good
> tools, especially if you are once an A&P mechanic. It is a crime to
> dispose them so cheaply what you have collected during your lifetime.
>
> What do you think?
>

Agreed. We don't get to choose when we go, but if we do see the end
coming, to give your stuff to some one(s) that will really appreciate it,
could be one of the most meaningful things you can do in your life.

At the very least, think about who has envied your xyz tool, and take the
time to set it all down in a will.
--
Jim in NC

Not far from where I set is a shed/shop full of wood working tools, once
owned by a man who spent many hours working with them. They have set there
idle for 10+ years a monument to him. Dirt and rust now cover the once
polished cast iron, dark cold silence broods where once was light, warmth
and the sound of creation. My tools have become my friends and companions
even though they are cold hard metal, every ding, worn spot, stain are known
to me and tell stories. When I no longer need them or can use them I would
prefer they go to someone who will use and treasure them as I have, not set
cold and idle as a useless monument to my memory. I have old used tools
from people I don't even know and every I use them the unknown person who
cared for them before me is remembered and Lives for a few more seconds
through his/her shared use of a tool.
"WD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> I bought a almost new Crapsman's Dado, a try square, 5 lbs. of
> stainless steel safety wire and other woodworking items. I did not buy
> the Sears radial saw as I do not need them. In the garage there is a
> Troy Bilt tiller, a motor cycle, a new stroll saw and many well-cared
> machines and tools in excellent conditions. My wife bought a Singer
> sawing machine a few kitchen items.
>
> As we walked away from the house, I feel very sad. We might have been
> great-friend. We have many things in common. I too was an A&P
> mechanic (and a degree ) from Northrop in LA. He was also an A&P
> mechanic with TWA in Denver Colorado. Everything he owned is well
> kept. In the bookshelves beside the fireplace were old training
> manuals; B707, DC9, Convair 880, L1011 and the P&W pocket handbook
> (1961). I have also worked on many of these aircrafts including
> Convair 990.
>
> I do not go to many estate sales, but this one make me thinks. Once
> you are gone, it is only a matter of days, the living will dispose
> everything you really love while you are still alive. I love good
> tools, especially if you are once an A&P mechanic. It is a crime to
> dispose them so cheaply what you have collected during your lifetime.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
>
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