[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

[Edward Swynar]

Hi Wayne,

Well, that story is certainly the EXCEPTION---by a HUGE margin---versus the
rule...

Case in point: we're only just now coming to the end of bringing closure in
the matter of my deceased bachelor 78 year old brother-in-law's estate---and
he died on 3rd April!

He was a classic hoarder who surely would have earned himself a TWO week
appearance on the TV show "HOARDERS: BURIED ALIVE". Entering the place was
reminded us all of the biblical story when the Red Sea was parted---there
was JUST ENOUGH ROOM (literally!) to navigate through the place...barely.

We filled SEVENTEEN dumpsters with his accumulated "...treasures". No P-38
airplanes, unfortunately, but we did find a 1964 Pontiac & a nearly new 1981
Chev Malibu...that and about 70 bicycles, 20 chainsaws, 15 hammers, a dozen
ratchet sets, 25 unopened jumbo size jars of peanut butter, 30 unopened jars
of instant coffee, and on and on and on and on and on...

Believe me folks, you aren't doing ANYBODY any favours by leaving an unkempt
legacy behind like this, for them to clean-up after you---always
buy/accumulate things with an eye to "...JUST IN TIME," and NOT "...JUST IN
CASE".

Otherwise you'll end-up like my unfortunate brother-in-law who sat on a
small fortune with all his accumulated stuff, yet lived hand to mouth with
his credit cards, seemingly always broke...it ain't no way to live, not by a
long shot.

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 1:57 PM
Subject: [ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives


> I heard of a case of a man who started an oil drilling supply company
after WWII.  Over the years he acquired equipment as required and storage
buildings to put it in.  He sold the company before he passed away; his son
ended up being one of the vice presidents, and was given the job of looking
at all of the equipment in storage in various locations and getting rid of
it.
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> One piece of property was an airplane hangar at an airfield in Arizona.
He and one of the other employees, his cousin, went there to survey the
contents, figuring it would be full of pipes and worn out equipment.  When
they walked in the cousin looked at the contents in dismay and said "Oh no!
How are we ever going to get this thing out of here?  It's huge!  What is it
going to cost us to have it hauled off?"
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> The son of man who built the company said "Oh, I don't think we will have
any trouble getting rid of this piece of equipment."
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> He was right.  The hangar held a perfectly preserved Lockheed P-38
Lightning.
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> His dad had always wanted one, bought it in 1954, parked it and left it in
the hangar.  How could his dad inflict that item on him, indeed..
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> Wayne
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> WB5WSV
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