California
Super Star Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,815
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
As I move into the wrong side of 80 I'm taking small steps to do my own Estate Sales, to take some of the burden off my kids so they don't have to deal with the barns full of inherited stuff here.Hang in there.
It's a fight to balance the culture of consumerism with the finality of death.
"Stuff" we all on TBN have been bragging about (our "great" buys, tractors, attachments, tools, etc.) may seem worthless to our heirs.
But I'm surprised how the consumerism you mentioned, has so rapidly devalued things that are inherently useful. A while back I bought the long-nose version of HF's first-generation Earthquake impact wrench, the red one. So recently I looked at closed sales on Ebay to set a starting bid for the short-nosed version of the same thing that I no longer need. Surprise! At $5 starting bid, one that looks new has been listed three times now, with no bids. WTH?? This is a practical, useful tool.
Consumerism tells DIY mechanics that only the latest version has value? I don't understand.