The post down a few lines about the garbage tools at auction, has made me think about who gets my toys when I am no longer able to use them in my workshop.
I look at the problem from different points of view.I'll be dead or infirm so I won't know ,won't care.
Then I think what will my wife do? Would she manage the organization needed just to dispose of my gear for a limited return ?.
I have seen an estate sale or two where dealers turn up like vultures offering the unsuspecting widow unfair prices for good tools and equipment.Then there are others who want bargains but expecting gear to be in tip top condition.
I was only talking yesterday to an older family member who was saying his carpenter tools are virtually worth nothing as they are old hand tools and most the younger blokes would not or could not use them anyway.
Given my situation there is no one in the family I want to have my metal work gear. I would will some of it it to a mens shed and /or to some deserving young person who had the need for it and family circumstances to use it.
Perhaps now, or soon will be a good time to make an inventory at least to give someone a good start at sorting it all out.
What are your views then ? Have you thought about a home for the kit you have taken half a lifetime to acquire?
Grahame
I look at the problem from different points of view.I'll be dead or infirm so I won't know ,won't care.
Then I think what will my wife do? Would she manage the organization needed just to dispose of my gear for a limited return ?.
I have seen an estate sale or two where dealers turn up like vultures offering the unsuspecting widow unfair prices for good tools and equipment.Then there are others who want bargains but expecting gear to be in tip top condition.
I was only talking yesterday to an older family member who was saying his carpenter tools are virtually worth nothing as they are old hand tools and most the younger blokes would not or could not use them anyway.
Given my situation there is no one in the family I want to have my metal work gear. I would will some of it it to a mens shed and /or to some deserving young person who had the need for it and family circumstances to use it.
Perhaps now, or soon will be a good time to make an inventory at least to give someone a good start at sorting it all out.
What are your views then ? Have you thought about a home for the kit you have taken half a lifetime to acquire?
Grahame
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