Well dang! How 'bout some hunting/fishing porn?

[Thumper]

I've been busier than a two-peckered billy goat lately, but when I check in here at night to see what youse dufes are up to ... I may as well be standing in the middle of a cemetery at midnight. Sheeesh, so much for living vicariously around this joint lately! Well, since I'm by myself here anyway, I think I'll look at some outdoors porn. Here are a few teasers at an estate sale scheduled for next weekend. (Who needs that many fishing poles??)

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[quercus alba]

I counted up my rod and reels, fly rods and jig poles the other day and came up with 33 and seven tackle boxes

[Bwana]

Boy-o-boy, does that look like a fun one.

Pretty sure I could get sucked up into the estate sale-thing if'n I were to live down there!

Are the first two long guns in the safe some sort of lever action?

[BarryBobPosthole]

That just makes me sad. That’s somebody’s shit that they prolly shed blood sweat and tears to get. And now nobody in the damn family gives enough of a shit about it for a few measly bucks? Poor fucker. I’d have died too.

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

I’ll give you $75 cash or a check from my cousin the Nigerian Prince for $25k for the boat.


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[quercus alba]

Funny how people are isn't it Posty? I'm not sentimental in the least. I don't own a single thing that I couldn't get rid of tomorrow that I'd miss. Everything I have has a practical use.

[Big Skyz]

BKB, that is kind'a how I feel about it too. I've felt that way for a while and frankly I've been getting rid of some of my stuff as a result. I doubt I will ever get another big game animal mounted by a taxidermist. I realized quite a while back that the reason large taxidermy collections just disappear, or get sold off, is that those animals don't mean much to anyone other than the person that killed the animal or was along for the hunt. Meaning most of that stuff is sold off quickly after one dies. My guns on the other hand I'm pretty sure mine will go to my kids as they like them. I have a large collection of fishing gear as well and whether they want it or not, I don't know. They are welcome to it, but I will be dead when it becomes available, so I guess I won't care anyway. Just a few months ago I sold the majority of my skull collection that I had been building for 20 years or more. I got a pretty good chunk of change for it and bought a nice Canon camera. I figured I'd rather collect memories in photos than piles of skulls, antlers, and horns. Of all the things that interest me the most about my dead ancestors and friends I'd say the photographs rank right near the top. I will say on a side note that Jimmy has it figured out. He doesn't really collect other people's junk, he'd made himself a middle man. He picks it up and sells it asap. Turns it into cash. Pretty hard to collect too much cash. Well at least I've never been able to.

[Thumper]

Yeppers, I have to admit, I used to collect most anything that caught my interest. After attending these sales, I realized nobody cared for grandma's collection of souvenir spoons or miniature teacups from every state in the country. Or grandpa's collection of glass power line insulators or his barbed wire collection. I started selling off ALL of my personal collections and instead of missing the stuff, I actually had a blast selling it ... and the money can go toward our next cruise or vacation. I actually realized how silly it is to sink a ton of money into something that sits on a shelf gathering dust, or in a safe hidden from sight. What's the point? I'll USE the cash to do something enjoyable WHILE I'M STILL ALIVE, instead of waiting to croak so some lowlife (like me) can come along and buy my shit for pennies on the dollar, then sell it on eBay in order to enjoy HIS life ... at MY expense! I will admit, I loved collecting stuff and it gave me a lot of enjoyment, but it's odd how a near death experience can change your outlook on life. These days, I look at collections as "silly", unless you have plenty of excess cash to burn. I've dumped about everything I own that had any value. I have a house, some ratty furniture and plenty of food in the freezer, what more do I need? I DO have one weakness that I've pretty much had all my life ... I still enjoy driving a new(er) vehicle. Once I get around 3 years on a new car, I start getting the itch. Lynn's is a 2015, but I may slide another year on hers. Mine is a 2016 and I'm already sucking the new car smell out of the cars at the dealer when I go in for service. BUT ... I have to have at least ONE weakness!

If the kids aren't clamoring for your collection of left-handed widgets ... sell 'em and use the cash to do something special and memorable. Otherwise, some moron down the line will be posting pics of your shit in some obscure chatroom on the internet, then bragging about how he picked up your $200 widget for 50-cents!

[airbud7]

I never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.....

[Thumper]

I never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.....

Nope!

[Big Skyz]

Yeppers, I have to admit, I used to collect most anything that caught my interest. After attending these sales, I realized nobody cared for grandma's collection of souvenir spoons or miniature teacups from every state in the country. Or grandpa's collection of glass power line insulators or his barbed wire collection. I started selling off ALL of my personal collections and instead of missing the stuff, I actually had a blast selling it ... and the money can go toward our next cruise or vacation. I actually realized how silly it is to sink a ton of money into something that sits on a shelf gathering dust, or in a safe hidden from sight. What's the point? I'll USE the cash to do something enjoyable WHILE I'M STILL ALIVE, instead of waiting to croak so some lowlife (like me) can come along and buy my shit for pennies on the dollar, then sell it on eBay in order to enjoy HIS life ... at MY expense! I will admit, I loved collecting stuff and it gave me a lot of enjoyment, but it's odd how a near death experience can change your outlook on life. These days, I look at collections as "silly", unless you have plenty of excess cash to burn. I've dumped about everything I own that had any value. I have a house, some ratty furniture and plenty of food in the freezer, what more do I need? I DO have one weakness that I've pretty much had all my life ... I still enjoy driving a new(er) vehicle. Once I get around 3 years on a new car, I start getting the itch. Lynn's is a 2015, but I may slide another year on hers. Mine is a 2016 and I'm already sucking the new car smell out of the cars at the dealer when I go in for service. BUT ... I have to have at least ONE weakness!

If the kids aren't clamoring for your collection of left-handed widgets ... sell 'em and use the cash to do something special and memorable. Otherwise, some moron down the line will be posting pics of your shit in some obscure chatroom on the internet, then bragging about how he picked up your $200 widget for 50-cents!

You pretty much summed up exactly how I feel and pretty much the same epiphany that I had in the last couple years. I still have some of my own stuff to sell, but that list is a lot shorter than it was two years ago. Now I just got to figure out how to turn other people's treasures into cash. Jimmy I honestly think you are on to something with what you do, and it's something I think I could really enjoy doing, but it's just not in the cards while I live in middle of nowhere Montana. Perhaps in a couple years when I move I will be closer to a larger population where estate sales and large garage sales actually exist enough to bother with them.

[Thumper]

Yeah Sky, I hear ya'. I live in a "smaller" town and the sales are comparatively limited locally. BUT, that can be a good thing depending on how you look at it. I'm right between two major population centers (Tampa & Orlando). I very seldom (as in almost never) leave my local area. I have to admit, I many times peruse the sales listed "out of town" and am tempted, but there are so many, how do you choose? It's like when I go into a restaurant that has a HUGE menu ... I have no clue what to choose as there are just too many options. That's when I throw my menu aside and just ask Lynn to order for me. So, I may not have the quality and variety of the sales available "in the city", but I have enough to keep me as busy as I want to be and don't have to worry about picking and choosing which ones to attend. If I ever decided to step up my game and get serious, I'd be willing to travel farther than the 30 or so minutes I limit myself to here.

Now, another thing to keep in mind. On one hand, this is a mecca for estate sales. Face it, disregarding the native population, this is where many older folks come to die (to put it bluntly). The result is, no shortage of estate sales. Many here have retired "up north" and moved here for the weather, etc. On the downside, some of them sell off the old homestead up north, along with all the cool old "junk" they've accumulated over the years (or sometimes, generations). They come down here, buy a small 1400 sq. ft. house and hit 'Rooms-To-Go' to furnish the new digs. The antiques and cool stuff is left, sold off or given away to friends/family up north because they know all that stuff will not fit into their new home or lifestyle. The old man is finally retired and now has time to pursue his interests, so he goes crazy buying new hunting or fishing gear and that fancy bass boat he's always wanted. I get bored and many times don't even attend sales that look like nothing is over 10 years old. I like the place that is knee deep in "junk" ... covered with dust and dirt. The hunt and the dig is where the excitement is for me. Now, on the other hand, most who collect certain items, will usually bring their collections with them. It's like one-stop shopping once it becomes part of an estate sale.

Another reason for so many sales here is the fact mom and dad retired and moved from Seattle to Miami. The "family" is all still in Seattle and working for a living, plus trying to maintain their own households and childcare issues. Most can't just call a halt to everyday life and hop on a flight to Florida to spend a month handling the affairs, so they call an estate sale company and ask them to empty the house for them. They then call a realtor and have the house sold. All the family has to do is continue with their lives and wait for a check to arrive in the mail.

[Arty]

Another reason for so many sales here is the fact mom and dad retired and moved from Seattle to Miami. The "family" is all still in Seattle and working for a living, plus trying to maintain their own households and childcare issues. Most can't just call a halt to everyday life and hop on a flight to Florida to spend a month handling the affairs, so they call an estate sale company and ask them to empty the house for them. They then call a realtor and have the house sold. All the family has to do is continue with their lives and wait for a check to arrive in the mail.

Funny you say this. Talked to a woman last week at work. He mother in Phoenix has passed away. I asked how everything was going. She said, and I state, “after the funeral, me and my brother went to her house, found the hidden cash box, counted and divided it out on the kitchen table. Then we made sure everything was locked up, and flew home later that day. We called a realtor the next day and he’s handling the estate sale and selling the house.” They literally went in for the cash, walked away from everything else.

[BarryBobPosthole]

There’s not much more proof than that to prove that what you acculumate in ‘things’ don’t mean shit when you’re gone.

Of course, I speak as one with more fishing shit than any three normal humans.

BKB

[Thumper]

I'll have to admit, when I first started attending these things, it felt a bit morbid to me. I'd kind of walk through, afraid to touch or "disturb" anything. I felt like I was invading someone's privacy. I soon got over it and now I'll go digging through dresser drawers, kitchen cabinets, bathroom medicine cabinets, hit the garage to dig through grandpa's old toolbox, dig through the shed ... everything is fair game. (I've also been known to lift a mattress or two checking for hidden goodies between the mattress and box spring. I also find things that had been "stored" under beds ... usually something like the extra leaf for the dining room table, card tables, that sort of thing.

I know one woman who heads straight for the bedrooms and starts digging through every coat pocket in the closets looking for that hidden cash or jewelry ... like a treasure hunt.

[HideHunter]

I live in jon boat country.. Every time I'm down there - I fall more deeply in lust with those "southern" boats.. and of course, there's thousands for sale down there. Never see anything with a center console up here. If it wasn't so freaking far - I'd buy one and trailer it home.

[johnboy]

Watch out for 'hurricane' boats if you're buying from the southern coast unless you're prepared to rewire. Once salt water gets to the internals you got lotsa problems.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I live in jon boat country.. Every time I'm down there - I fall more deeply in lust with those "southern" boats.. and of course, there's thousands for sale down there. Never see anything with a center console up here. If it wasn't so freaking far - I'd buy one and trailer it home.

I’ve been looking at Blue Wave center consoles for years but just can’t pull the trigger. Plus I hate boat payments.

Well that and I still have lots of hours left on my old 2000 Champion.

BKB

[Arty]

I’ve got one other thing to add to this thump!
This gal said they spent an hour looking for the cash box. Apparently they knew there was one. How many old folks have one that their family don’t know about.
Short story- be on the lookout !!!

This particular box had 120k.... CASH MONEY.