I was actually looking for the waffle irons. I'm on page 22 and had to quit for a while. Shipping isn't an issue. We would drive up there & pick the item(s) up, and do some geocaching on the way home. Gets us out of the house for something other than doc appts. I have PT, xrays, and a visit to ortho today alone!If you're wanting to buy any cast iron, KC, the shipping is going to be brutal.
We've done a few auctions a little more local to us. Every now and again, one catches our eye.
There are definitely times when the theory behind "Multiplicity" seems like a good idea...especially when there are multiple teenagers in the house.
I've told my kids they might want to put my Oneida cutlery on ebay and split the profits. It's out of production. Forks are going for $35 EACH (I had to replace a couple of forks and several spoons to bring my set back to 12 settings). Yowch!
It is hard but yeah it is fairly standard that the seller values everything more than the buyer. We went through at least two large dumpsters clearing stuff out of my grandparent's house. Then we had a small UHaul full of stuff with actual value we took to an auction house.
This is going to be an issue in my mom's family. She values the tie to that land more than least one of her three siblings and has no desire to sell, ever. I would be proud to own it but not split 10 ways with my cousins. Then what we pass it on and it gets split 25 ways to the next generation? Clearly is not sustainable. Sell it to my cousin who is actually farming the land and it still stays in the family. Not to mention this is Tama county and not NW Iowa.
It's why my father and his brothers left their ranch for new lives back in the forties. Two of them would have stayed but it was 3000 acres. Too small to split and have 3 productive operations. and none of them could buy the others out. And larger ranches were edging out the little guys.
You might try ebay or facebook marketplace...
BTW - Lew wants to know where this auction is...like he NEEDS another project...
BTW - Lew wants to know where this auction is...like he NEEDS another project...
When my grandfather passed, the farmland went to my Dad and his siblings. The way the contract is written, if one of them passes, all of the farmland is then split between the next generation which is 8 of us. My Dad is the youngest of the 3 by over a decade and he's 63. It's a no brainer to sell and get out of this mess before things get incredibly too complicated.
Yeah, please. PM it if you're more comfortable. A lot depends on when the auction ends and when the pickup is required.
My inlaws might be having second thoughts about making Mrs. Velo's brother executor of their estate. He has already said that when they die he is parking a dumpster on the driveway and everything is going in it. Both Mrs. Velo and her other brother have said there might be a few things that they want. His response is, "Nope, it is all going in the dumpster." Mrs. Velo is pretty upset about this already and neither of them are in the grave.
There were 1000 acres of unused land in a separate parcel from the ranch grandpa sold that passed to the three sons. All they did was pay property taxes for years. They had the same stipulation that your grandfather did. My sister and our oldest cousin on that side teamed up and talked the three sons into selling it off while they were all still alive. What the hell were the 10 cousins going to do with 100 acres of land each, all miles from the nearest town?
We insisted that our kids tell us now if they have any particular attachments to things in our home. Some are expected, some are entirely random. Lew's youngest (the marine) will get his rifle, shotgun & pistol. My younger son wants the posable California Raisins that were moved all over our house when they were teens and older (if you saw them, you moved them to a new spot). He also wants the ridiculous piece of decorated driftwood that we call "Woody", that has hung from our rearview mirror in each of our successive main vehicles for over 20 years. Both of those would have likely ended up in the dumpster.
