Makes you ponder

[tonyc1]

I get really jumpy and reach for the Paracetamol when my wife says, "Now I've been thinking".

I also wonder when my son is in the workshop and says things like "What would that machine be worth?"

Tony.

[Blake]

This is a good topic

Several months back , I had someone drag out an old worn saddle and ask me what my thoughts were about it. I recognized it to have been made by a long deceased saddle maker . After more thoughts about the saddle the next day, I realized that I own and use the tools that were probably used to make that very saddle.

It sure makes you want to be sure that our tools are left in good hands when we depart.

Blake

[UKRay]

My take is a bit morbid, but I actually had a conversation about this only this morning... I was wondering what would happen to my tools and machines after I'm gone.

Some of my kit is incredibly old and I do feel like I hold it in trust for the next generation, but my son is a computer nerd (bless him) and I can't see him ever bothering to learn how to use them. I actually found it quite distressing to think that the collection I have built up over my lifetime could end up in a dumpster simply because nobody knows what the stuff is.

I have decided to appoint a special trustee in my will to find good homes for all my tools. Hopefully they would take on the responsibility of clearing my workshop and ease the burden for those left behind. I'd be perfectly happy to let them take their pick of the toys!

Any volunteers?

[Go2Tex]

My take is a bit morbid, but I actually had a conversation about this only this morning... I was wondering what would happen to my tools and machines after I'm gone.

Some of my kit is incredibly old and I do feel like I hold it in trust for the next generation, but my son is a computer nerd (bless him) and I can't see him ever bothering to learn how to use them. I actually found it quite distressing to think that the collection I have built up over my lifetime could end up in a dumpster simply because nobody knows what the stuff is.

I have decided to appoint a special trustee in my will to find good homes for all my tools. Hopefully they would take on the responsibility of clearing my workshop and ease the burden for those left behind. I'd be perfectly happy to let them take their pick of the toys!

Any volunteers?

Nah, don't worry. They'll have an estate sale and somebody like Bob Douglas will get hold of them and make a fortune off them selling them to guys like me.....

[StolpSaddles]

Boy did I start something. love reading all the comments. I did not even think about the tool aspect. I should be around for a while yet ( i hope as I am only 50 )

So I would be willing to put to good use of any tools you want to pass down to me.. LOL

Edited March 15, 2009 by StolpSaddles

[UKRay]

Boy did I start something. love reading all the comments. I did not even think about the tool aspect. I should be around for a while yet ( i hope as I am only 50 )

So I would be willing to put to good use of any tools you want to pass down to me java script:add_smilie(%22:lol:%22,%22smid_6%22)

I'm only four years older than you, Mr Stolp, so you might be out of luck!

(any pictures you might have seen that make me look older simply reflect my exceedingly misspent youth....) I would like to add that I have every intention of misspending my old age too!

[StolpSaddles]

The best way to stay young is to forget about getting old and rock on

Edited March 15, 2009 by StolpSaddles

[tonyc1]

Here's another good question for all of us.

I wonder what our ages average out at? I'm 65 but I'm sure there'd be a lot older than me.

Tony.

[barra]

I intend to leave mine to someone just starting out. As for age, I'm a mere pup at 45. I was born Nov 05 1963. For those with a British connection. I started life with a bang and hope to go out with a bang.

Barra

[Suze]

My nephew's boy is the one who will inherit all of my worldly goods.....

Not married and have no kids.

I hope that he will find good homes for a lot of my things.

and I am trying to get the 80 years of my parents debrie cleared out before he has to deal with it. And my only sister is not helping in the least. Everything has a "Memory" for her and must be saved HERE --- I cant't tell you how much pure JUNK she has taken home --- because it might be valuable someday you know.

like a 50 year old ice chest....or bed pans (Yes you heard me - a bedpan - what Mom saved it for I have no idea either)

sigh - it is a fight to get anything OUT of the house. Somehow she finds out when I am in a pitching mood and shows up and makes my life HELL

she took home a box of 50 year old sewing patterns that last time that were falling to dust in my hands...she doesn't sew.

the worst is when she is telling me that I can't throw out stuff **I BOUGHT** in the first place and is my property. I've just been packing it all in her car - let her husband deal with her.

sorry about that - it just slips out sometimes.