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Member buddies and end of life planning....

TorontoBuilder

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So, due to the potential of getting locked out of the forum @Susquatch has wisely suggested that people have a member buddy they can contact via methods other than the forum so that they can assist you by contacting a moderator for you....

I'm happy to facilitate such an action on anyone's behalf.

Also, @Susquatch also mentioned his end of life planning list last week and it reminds me that I should update the end of life lists for both my brother and I, so our spouses can know who to contact in the event that they need to dispose of our equipment to those who will get the best use from it.

So if anyone wishes to be a potential resource to help dispose of equipment, or to have a chance to acquire equipment prior to the stuff going on the open market feel free to DM me some personal contact information. I promise to keep the information confidential and secure.

All our major equipment will be on a list with the market value, and proposed sale values to the general public, and friends and family pricing for forum members.
 
So, due to the potential of getting locked out of the forum @Susquatch has wisely suggested that people have a member buddy they can contact for you....

Am I missing something? Is the forum in peril?

I got DavidR8, slow-poke, Justin (DB I think) and Dabbler I can contact, but that might be it. Do we need to start DM’ing each other contact info?
 
Am I missing something? Is the forum in peril?

I got DavidR8, slow-poke, Justin (DB I think) and Dabbler I can contact, but that might be it. Do we need to start DM’ing each other contact info?
No nothing like that. We're having issues with outbound email so if you rely on that for logging in it could be problematic. One of the admins (aka me or Susquatch) can go in behind the scenes and reset things.
 
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I gotta say, the best "end of life planning" I ever saw, was a Watchmaker (stone deaf) in Regina that I met. 'He' was pretty keen on maximizing his potential values, but 'She', stated that the first guy to the front door with a truck and a $20 Bill, was gonna get the whole lot!

Don't diss on other people's interests, but don't depend on them appreciating yours either.
 
'He' was pretty keen on maximizing his potential values, but 'She', stated that the first guy to the front door with a truck and a $20 Bill, was gonna get the whole lot!

My brides version would be first guy here gets a wad of ten $100 dollar bills to take the whole lot away. But it's all or nothing.

I can already see @JustaDB's member spotted deals post!
 
Hopefully if life pans out the way I want it to, the kids will be off doing their own thing and be self sufficient. They will get first dibs on whatever tools and equipment they want, and the Wife can just call the auctioneer for the rest, and it'll be the best auction that I won't be able to make it to. She knows to post about it on "my forums" so that it hopefully goes to people that might use the stuff instead of flip it. Whatever money she gets, she gets. I don't foresee a situation where she has to sit on it and squeeze every last penny out of it all, so it'll hopefully buy a nice trip south and sunny someday. Nothing here is of any real value. I don't have any rare high quality tools, just "working" machines, that were bought at pretty much already fully depreciated prices. Nothing out there owes me/us anything, so it sells for what it sells for.

If she goes first, same deal. Kids split it up and take what they want when I croak, then call the auctioneer, then scrap yard to take the rest. In a worst case scenario, there should still be enough from the sale of the tools/equipment to pay for a salvage company to clean up the rest of the property for sale.

I'm not really all that emotionally attached to any of it, and I don't expect the kids or any yet to be born grand kids to be either. If they do, great, take what you want. If not, turn it into cash, and blow it however you want. I guess the only emotional hang up I have about any of it, is that I'd rather see it get into the hand of people that will use it, than simply go to the scrap yard. If that is the case, I'd rather give it all away to some young person starting out, that wants to use it all.
 
I'm not really all that emotionally attached to any of it,
:oops:

I'm the opposite.. at least for some of my special machines. I see them all as little versions of wall-E

My wife is part Scottish and both her parents were kids during ww2, when it comes to minimalism they put me to shame.

@JustaDB wont be posting a copy of her ad in member spotted deals and I pity any lowballers who try to put one over on her.
 
Meh, the machines are just tools to me. Made to be used and modified into whatever I need them to do for me. If anything, I'm more emotionally attached to the things that I build with them, but even then, it's really just "stuff". Only important to ME, while I'm still an electrically charged meatsack made of stardust. Once that light goes out, that's it. If someone else finds value in them, great. If my kids do, all the better. If not, Oh well.....
 
Honestly, I figure that the stuff that pleases me when I am alive, I can worry about, after I an no longer alive, it's all not my problem anymore!
Whether you want to leave that on whoever loads the dumpster, when you are gone, or not, you have to decide!
 
Honestly, I figure that the stuff that pleases me when I am alive, I can worry about, after I an no longer alive, it's all not my problem anymore!
Whether you want to leave that on whoever loads the dumpster, when you are gone, or not, you have to decide!
The problem can be that a wife is clueless about how to get rid of 1 ton machines, and unscrupulous stains often attempt to take advantage and charge them for the removal.. which I have seen more than a handful of times.
 
We have 3 generations of tools my son is the 4th 3 lathes 3 drill presses, shaper, 2 mills (one Cnc ) and my son’s sheet metal stuff between the garage and basement.
I’ve always told him that when I kick it all this is yours, just dig a hole and kick me in.
 
The problem can be that a wife is clueless about how to get rid of 1 ton machines, and unscrupulous stains often attempt to take advantage and charge them for the removal.. which I have seen more than a handful of times.
Sorta like the Redneck's death-bed plea, eh?

"Please don't let my wife sell my guns for what I told her I paid!" LOL!

Have met spouses of several different minds, some were well aware of values, others that spent the day after the funeral, feeding her Husband's toys into the burn barrel, to be rid of the stuff by the fastest means possible.

I was wheeling a deal with one old fella on some watch repair stuff, and his wife casually mentioned that he might as well make the deals now, as the day he died, the first guy to the front door with a truck and a $20 bill, was getting it all!

Kinda like to think I won't be leaving a burden for someone else to deal with. But views on how to properly deal with the stuff after the fact, do vary a lot!
 
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