How many can relate to this situation? Be honest, if you have one part you have two or three. Just never know when you'll need it.

 

Oh I can certainly relate. It took me nearly twenty years to weed through what my parents left to me. I'm now in the process of going through all my stash so I don't burden my wife and daughters with it. I'm fairly organized and don't have a lot of worthless junk....but I do have a good stash....maybe too good.

 

I thought the rule was He who dies with the most stuff wins!

I can only get one vehicle (Fred) in a two car garage. All good stuff though!

 

I have a 2200 sqft storage barn outside of town that I rent to keep all my stash in. The wife has asked me, "what am I going to do with all this if you should die before me?". I told her that she could do whatever she wanted with it...I'd have no further need for any of it. I guess the irony of my story is that now she has as much "treasure" stored out there as do I! I do find that as I get older I realize that there is no chance at all that I will ever get to all the projects I have in the wings, so I am paring some of it down.

 

If I croak before my wife someone is going to get one heck of a bargain. She has no value in anything I own, none of it is farm related, so when I keel over she'll sell everything to anyone that will give her scrap value or less. Good thing I'm getting buried in the F-2 or she'd put out on the front lawn with a sign "$500 OBO". Rob would finally take the F-4 for $25, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't pay more than that to have him haul it away.

 

As I'm fond of saying....


"I know my wife will never leave me, if she did, she'd have to take half of my stuff"


Bobby

 

My Dad collected antiques before collecting antiques was cool. He had good foresight as to what would be worth something later. He would be the Nickle Man at public sales. They paid a Nickle for stuff that nobody bid on. And sometimes he'd get valuable stuff. But mom and Dad had a farm and had plenty of buildings to store stuff and our house had lots of antiques in it.

Well I like Antiques. Mom and dad gave each of us kids valuable Antiques over the years. My wife likes them and is like me, she can't get rid of stuff that has sentimental value or something that might be worth some money. I have a detached garage that looks like a small barn with a hip roof. It has a huge upstairs. It is packed with stuff, my used and NOS truck parts, her stuff, my stuff. She has talked about taking stuff to the dump...

Our son, our only child, age 25, says he is a minimalist. He doesn't like antiques.... That may change, hopefully. Ive got a 200 year old tall case clock my dad bought in 1963 and a 160 year old rocker my 3 Great grandfather built. He died before the civil War.

I believe if you like fixing up and preserving old trucks then you are probably a "saver" (not necessarily a hoarder) of other things. If if I had more room I'd probably have more stuff.

 

Nobody in my family has a clue or could care less what my stuff is worth, so I'm going to bequeath it all between a few friends to keep the vultures from getting it.

 

When I buy a part, get 2 or 3. Never know when you might need it.
Gaskets, water pump, carb, etc.
I'm nuts too.

 

Do you remember George Carlin's, "A place for my stuff" monologue? Funny stuff. And how true.

 

I have had that picture in my mind for years and trying hard to not leave behind tons of stuff. I have been selling like a madman all summer, yet I still spent all day today moving stuff around just so I could get a car moved. I may have to put up another building just so I can get a little organized. That works right?

 

Go to YouTube and look for George Carlin's standup routine. He says that exact thing!

 

Keep at it, Dave! I've been doing the same, after the painful experience of going thru my mother's "stuff" last year. It takes a while but soon enough you'll start noticing how you don't have to squeeze past one thing to get to another.

 

I have written in my will what the '51 is worth and a few other key possessions. We update the will every year as needed.
The LAST thing I want is my wife selling the truck for $2,500 at a time when she is vulnerable and not able to research it's worth. Even if it goes to a family member, the relative value is understood.
As for my parts stash, beekeeping equipment, boat & fishing stuff, hunting stuff....that can be given away to anyone that have a genuine desire to use them.
But not the truck.. Nope.
That truck is red partly because of the blood I shed taking it apart and putting it together. Nobody's getting it easily.
On the next update to the will the '49 will get added since it is slowly rising from the heap of rusty parts into something that resembles a motor vehicle.

Oh, and I was just telling Josh Madsen that I have duplicates and triplicates of some parts that I didn't remember I bought. Anyone need a new clutch pilot bearing? One of my worst failing memory examples. I'll throw in a T-9 crashbox for free.

 

Tom, did you get your 49 painted yet? How far along are you with it?