What Happens to Your Toys?

Have you made any plans for your prized possessions to go to a good home or worthy person when you finaly kick the bucket?
Is there someone who will take over your tools and equipment and keep producing after your gone.
Have you a family member or dear friend that will cherish and continue to use your equipment.
Will the recipient promise to keep them in manner in which they deserve.
Rather than have your cherished tools deteriorate, or be sold off to an uncaring person, have you considered donating them to a club, school, charity. to continue producing and helping others?
Often I see advertisements where somebody is wishing to sell gear from a deceased estate and wonder what value has been put on the items.
Have you made any plans? What are they? Maybe we all should give this some serious thought.

Nope, none of the above.

Hopefully mine will go to my boy or my grandson but not for a long time yet.:U

HH.

I intend to wear mine out before I go.

Back to work!

Ross

I will take them with me. :cool:

Back to work!

Wongo

I am teaching swmbo to use them so she will take over, on this note I must start building coffins.:oo::oo:
les

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Originally Posted by HappyHammer

Hopefully mine will go to my boy or my grandson but not for a long time yet.:U

HH.

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Same two boys LOML or grandson

I'm prepared to volunteer as a bequestee....if that's of help to anyone. :D

None of the above and I won't care because I'll be dead

I inherited my dad's tool set, and a couple of grandad's too, a very precious connection in my opinion. My young fella is too young yet, so I don't know if he'll turn out to be a shed dweller, like his forebears. Chances are he'll inherit a reasonable tool collection, as the girls haven't shown too much interest so far. No use handing it down if there is no interest or passion.
I have thought about donating my set of 50 or 60 handmade tools, which I'd like to see kept intact, to a local craft museum for their collection. They have an operational forge that is part of an educational program, and is where I learnt blacksmithing. Might be nice gesture to return the fruits, as it were.

Cheers,

PS I'm not really interested in what happens to my power tools, there doesn't seem to be the same personal connection with them...anyone else feel the same?

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Originally Posted by Andy Mac

PS I'm not really interested in what happens to my power tools, there doesn't seem to be the same personal connection with them...anyone else feel the same?

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I have my dad's B&D power drill it is special as I bought it for him many years ago in the 60's, it's steel case the sort that can be repaired bushes bearing etc been repaired once in all that time. If my other power tools last well it will be up to whom ever remains generally I used to by quaility, now days even big bucks doesn't mean it will last to next week.

Both boys and daughter like tools she sells them they use them.

1st Grandson only 7 weeks old will have to wait and see.

I will have my sons divide the tools in the shed as they see fit.

(Some might say revenge?)

RRich - If you have a pair of dividers, they can have one each!

Sorry for that - just Yanking your chain.

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Originally Posted by Linden Hardy

RRich - If you have a pair of dividers, they can have one each!

Sorry for that - just Yanking your chain.

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Are you saying they should divide them up between them?:U

Personally, I don't care. I won't know, I'll be dead.

I'd like to think that my father's and grandfather's tools would pass on to someone who'd appreciate them, but I'd only be fooling myself if I believed that. Even now, my bros nick bits'n'pieces from my shed to make a quick buck. Lost a bloody marvellous set of spokeshaves that way. :cry4: Unfortunately, I can't prove it... :~ but on the few times I've caught them at it they've come back with "it's just a bit of old tat, not worth anything." Yeah? Then are they pinching it to sell down the market, huh? Not worth anything, my asre! :boxing:

Bloody fambly. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em. :roll:

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Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Personally, I don't care. I won't know, I'll be dead.

I'd like to think that my father's and grandfather's tools would pass on to someone who'd appreciate them, but I'd only be fooling myself if I believed that. Even now, my bros nick bits'n'pieces from my shed to make a quick buck. Lost a bloody marvellous set of spokeshaves that way. :cry4: Unfortunately, I can't prove it... :~ but on the few times I've caught them at it they've come back with "it's just a bit of old tat, not worth anything." Yeah? Then are they pinching it to sell down the market, huh? Not worth anything, my asre! :boxing:

Bloody fambly. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em. :roll:

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That alright skew, anything you don't want your family to pinch, just drop off in my shed for safekeeping:D:U. I will look after it for you, honest:U

Great post, Linden. I guess we all do nothing about it because its something we don't want to think about.
When my old man passed on a neighbour was paid $50 a load to dispose of everything in the shed. That included a boat trailer and an '0 gauge' hand built train set and tracks. Was I angry? Have i ever got over it. And that could happen to any of us.
How would you feel if some joker offered $50 for that old Domino cutter in the plastic box after you were gone? (I guess you wouldn't feel anything!)

My advice do something now. List it all, put a price on it - what you paid is OK or write something very clearly as to who gets what.

Carry Pine

As Said by Carry Pine - When my old man passed on a neighbour was paid $50 a load to dispose of everything in the shed. That included a boat trailer and an '0 gauge' hand built train set and tracks. Was I angry? Have i ever got over it
I was thinking along similar lines when I started this thread. Valuable equipment sold off to the first bidder, family in shock, just want to clear out items.
If you do have precious equipment, loving handcrafted work that you spent your time making - who will receive them or will they get trashed. Having these live on - long after your gone - owned, used or displayed by people who care.
Unless you express your wishes verbally, or in a will, then your family or heirs may just dump them or sell off.

Linden, we are 'two great minds ' on this one. The associated beef I have is that Dad was a member of a semi-religious group and when he passed on the members came around to collect the uniforms and equipment.
I think it went like this:
"While we're here would you like us to get rid of ..............?
The perfect 'in' .

Another relative burnt a photo album containing a photo of my great grandfather in a Matong (some people will know where that is) AFL jumper. (before it was AFL of course).
I discovered AFL at the age of 22 and now my son (26) plays (very well). Now how valuable would that picture be to us?

List all the precious stuff and put a name next to it. Just do it.

Carry Pine