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Nah, let them see it. Should be good for a laugh.
I try to label everything as I put it on the shelf so the eventual poor sap from the auction company will know what it is. I assume I'll go first, which means my wife will let an auctioneer handle it all. They are pretty good about marketing tools and car stuff at auctions around here. If I go last, well...I guess some humane society will get a windfall. No kids. No close friends who would be interested in any of it. I won't care; I'll be dead!
I worry about my father in law. He's got a shop big enough for four tractors/trailers. IT IS FULL. And the 3 acres it sits on is pretty well full. And he just built another shop because the first one is full. My wife and I have talked about what it's going to take to clean it when he passes and we don't look forward to it.
I have 4 cars (at the moment), only one still has a payment on it. Plus a garage with a decent amount of parts and assorted tools. But I also have accumulated a sizeable Star Wars collection that covers two full rooms and parts of other rooms, not to mention 8 screen accurate costumes (so far) that probably average $800-1000 of the 8. Some are cheaper, but some are more $$.
I went with my mom a few years ago when she updated her will, and did my own. Single guy, no kids, dropped life insurance for same reason. Have to double check but I think current GF gets everything if mom is already gone (and she just turned 78).
I also donated my body to science at Wright State University, so no funeral expenses to deal with.
In reply to buzzboy :
Dealing with someone who is a hoarder is very stressful; it's one of the least treatable conditions mental health professionals deal with.
All you can do is see if there are any companies in your area that will do a clean out when the time comes.
In reply to Tom1200 :
Sometimes I buy tools for no good reason (shocker, I know). However, I've had some instances where I've bought a tool without a definite purpose just to realize its purpose years later. For example, a bunch of years I bought a small dental kiln from a guy whose father had passed; it was more or less a way of giving the guy some money. I had no idea what I would ever do with it, if anything. It sat in a corner for years -- until last year when my mother was getting remarried and I offered to make their wedding rings. I used the dental kiln to help shrink-fit a copper sleeve to a stainless-steel barrel and thus join two dissimilar metals that I could finish on the lathe. That kiln had been sitting for easily five years just waiting for that one moment!
In reply to brandonsmash :
Oh I get it. These things do come in handy from time to time but we all have a lot of stuff that we are clinging to.
Trust me cleaning out the clutter from my three car garage was tough.
It's a fine line from being prudent about keeping occasional use stuff and being a hoarder.
I want to be buried in my Mustang. I going to put my wife's Hoover in her casket.
We have burial plots. The cemetery contacted us recently to 'review our paperwork', which was code for trying to get more money out of us. We had a talk and decided that since she's going to scientific research, I'm going to either do the same or get cremated and sprinkled on the club track, we'll just sell them. I'm sure they're going to try and extort some money for the process. Berkeleying pieces of E36 M3.
My youngest son tells me all the time he wants my Cougar when I'm dead.
My parents don't have a ton of cars or tools, but still have a house full of stuff that neither I, nor my sister want. I'll take my grandmas piano, and there are a few pieces of furniture we'll take (like 3), but everything else will get donated or thrown away.
How about an extended Viking funeral. Stick my corpse in one of the cars and light up the garage.
brandonsmash said:This is something I've thought about. I have a lot of E36 M3 -- I mean a lot, by most normal-people standards. Guns? Two safes full. Vehicles and trailers? Several. Tools? Oh god. I have a warehouse for work that houses a lot, and that warehouse is pretty full and I'd like to move into something with more than double the square footage. And a vehicle yard. At home? Well, I have a garage full of tools and reloading stuff. I also have a workshop out back that's absolutely packed with tools.
How packed?
Well, the workshop in the back yard has a 4' x 8' CNC plasma table, a Bridgeport mill, a large lathe, a small CNC mill, a 4' x 8' welding table (and a whole bunch of welders), several layout and cutting tables, mechanic's tools, metalworking/woodworking tools, etc. It's getting obscene.
My wife and I do not have children. What's going to happen with all this STUFF when I'm gone? I don't believe my wife would want or make use of most of it, and I don't have anyone else to whom to will it. Between the garage, the workshop, and the warehouse I have hundreds of thousands of dollars of tools.
I read your post to my wife. Her reply, "Local community college that has a tech program."
In reply to Peabody :
Over a 30 year period people donated cemetery plots to our church that's located in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago.
Probably got 20 spread over 4 different locations. On paper pushing $75,000 but it's a challenge to sell them.
Once I called all of them asking to buy them back - laughter....Even donating to a family in need is a challenge cause there's extra fees involved.
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