What will happen to YOUR equipment?

[ace]

"Hey dad when you die can I have your stuff"! asked my son. "No son I said its all being buried with me so that I'll have something to do until your mum joins me". Ha Ha Ha

[havoc]

Well, you may disagree of course. But I have a good feeling of what will happen when I die. I do not have widewife and/or kids. So if I live for another 30 years there will be only nieces and nefews around. None of those has any interest in this kind of stuff. So I guess maybe a few of the trains are kept as conversational pieces.

The lathe mill and other stuff is just a big pile of metal that none has any interest in let alone use (neither can I...) or has place to put. So if it doesn't go to the club, it gets trown on the skip. Same for the antique furniture. This is actually worth more than the workshop. But not to them. It isn't any shiny black plastic and chrome. So it will go to the skip or get burned in the stove. Some of the books will get dispersed but most will be in the paper container (now who would keep a "manuel de l'ingeniuer of 1926 in 3 parts? The 2 civil engineer in the lot are not even capable of hanging/connecting a chandelier). So I prefer that the lot goes to the club and is used to help young members up to speed. And they need that because I'm about the youngest in the club and I'm almost 40. Mean age must be 65 or more, they die faster than they have new members.

Honestly, I prefer the lot to be sold for 10 euro than it ending on the skip. Same for the furniture, electronics worshop etc...

Now the house, that is something they understand. The faster it is sold, the better. So light the bonfire, order the container and haul it away. That is the way of the younger generation.

Just don't think about it, you may end up depressed.

EDIT: lots of typos...

[ron]

Personally I'm with Paul on this one, I don't really care much what happens once I've gone to the big and very hot workshop but I would like to think that my wife and offspring have enough brains between them to figure out that the stuff I've got is worth a fair bit.
I think with programmes like the Antiques Boreshow and Ebay most people now realise that one man's junk is another man's treasure and are less likely to discard stuff even if they don't know what it is.
Ron

[paul]

alanstepney said:

In this case I got the police involved, the engines were recovered and returned to her, and the "dealer" was charged, possibly over this transaction.

It must have been over other items in his possession - there's nothing illegal about a transaction between a willing seller and willing buyer even if the agreed price *is* ridiculous. 'Caveat vendor' ?

Lurkio: You can make an offer and my family will decide - if they don't look into it and you rip them off then so be it. (Offer 'em a pound to take the rubbish away, I would!).

[Lurkio]

Looks like we're split up into two groups folks....those who don't give a monkey's, and those who do.
Havoc has made an interesting point - maybe age has an influence. Also of course if we have immediate family we may think differently.
Opinions do change as we get older, so perhaps some will have a change of mind in the future.
For now, it looks like we'll have to agree to disagree.

Paul,
I hope you're here for a long while yet.....you'll likely see me out anyway!

Lurkio.

[havoc]

Looks like we're split up into two groups folks....those who don't give a monkey's, and those who do.

Now it would be worth looking into that split. Are these the folks that do/do not take out a life insurance? Is it the same split between rivet couters and those that don't care about detail?

Someone wants to write a dissertation on it?

[andrewtoplis]

paul said:

It must have been over other items in his possession - there's nothing illegal about a transaction between a willing seller and willing buyer even if the agreed price *is* ridiculous. 'Caveat vendor' ?

There is the offence of Obtaining Goods by Deception, if the sale is intentionally misleading it may apply.

[paul]

andrewtoplis said:

There is the offence of Obtaining Goods by Deception, if the sale is intentionally misleading it may apply.

Yeah but it's the potential for the buyer to deceive not the seller that we're talking about!

[alanstepney]

By persuading the seller that he was an expert and that the models and equipment were worthless, I suspect he could be charged with obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

Irrespective of the exact charge, I am sure that the police could find something to charge the guy with if there was a good reason. It is surprisng how many laws we have that can be bought into play when required.

[dickdastardly40]

Further to my last post which while slightly tongue in cheek, I would like to re-iterate the sentiment:

Let your loved ones know the potential value of the stuff and then let them decide if they can be *sred to sell it on fleabay or to the rag n bone man. Also if you will an item to someone your spouse will know it had some value and that you weren't being cheap. Another thought might be to tell her to contact so and so (whom you trust) when the time comes to dispose of the workshop.

[houstonceng]

dickdastardly40 said:

SNIP

Another thought might be to tell her to contact so and so (whom you trust) when the time comes to dispose of the workshop.

Trouble is that "so-n-so" whom I trust will, in all probability - knowing my luck - shuffle off to "the great workshop in the sky" afore me.