lots of tools

I have so many handtools,like shovels ,picks, shale bars,sledgehammers,,etc etc plus handtools such as chisels ,edgers for concrete,Pins for concrete forms,mason tubs and stands...all kinds of stuff,,its obvious now Ill never use them all if any.Im sitting here at 1,30 am,cant sleep again. I was thinking garage sale,,but for the few bucks that I would get,,I think I would like to pass them around,,I still have friends in the business and since everything is painted blue and white,it would be something of mine for them to remember me.I have stuff here in nj in the shed,and stuff in PA Too.Way too much stuff.I want to start real soon giving some to my friends.

Considering the same thing; have been giving older stuff to a museum. The use of hand tools is a lost art. A couple years ago a CARPENTER found two high quality bit braces in an attic and gave them to me because he did not know what they were, Both better than the one I have always used but I do not have the heart to discard the old faithful one that I seldom use. Tools I have used are like a part of me, of course I am an eccentric!

I guess I'm at the same point as you are, but most of my friends are my age and older. I've donated some of my tools and a lot of good, usable materials to Habitat for Humanity.
Butch

Larry, I don't know you other than reading and enjoying your post. Of course they are your tools and you can do what you want with them. But I know you are going thru a tough time right now. Hang in there. I have a sister who has fought hard for over 4 years and her last scans she was cancer free. Miracles do happen. Not being able to do what you want when you want to can be disheartening, but hang in there. The 5 months will go by quickly, I know it doesn't seem like it when you are in the middle of a chemo round and feeling lousy but hang in there. Don't forget you have a lot of people pulling for you.

Larry,
One summer it was too hot to do anything, so I decided to have a craigslist yard sale. I posted pics of things I decided must go. Sold $1500 worth of junk. Many times I would take my items to a parking lot in town to make the final sale.

Two times a year church has a yard sale. I donate things to them. A family moved into assistant living. They donated all their house items to church yard sale, $1600 sales.

We have a church based goodwill style store, mostly clothes and house items. When a tenant leaves me dirty clothes, pots and pans, they are happy to get them. Wash the items and sell them at a fraction what goodwill sells them for. Guess you could say it's a goodwill store for very poor people.

I've been giving my two kids some of my old tools, but I hear "we don't have the space for them"

Last time my boy wanted me bring him my 13 hp pressure washer to clean his driveway. I told him "Now it yours, I'm not hauling it home". I can't use it without my arms hurting all night. I can use 6.5 hp pressure washer.

So I would give things to family first, friends, craigslist for items church doesn't want. We even have Habitat for humanity store you can give things too. Profits go to building homes. Also have a thrift store like goodwill that feeds and shelters the homeless.
If you have many objects, goodwill will send a truck to pick them up.

You have many options. Hope you already took care of estate items, property, who gets car, trucks, tractors.
geo.

Hi Larry,
I am looking for a pto post hole digger. I am in NE PA and grew up in NJ. I also share what I don't need.
I would be happy to buy from you.
Thanks
Steve

Larry you need to quit making major decisions while your going through CEMO!!! Your feeling terrible and are stressed to the max right now. You are feeling like your life, as you knew it is over. Well I have seen the majority pull through and get back to just about what their normal life was. The treatments for your form of cancer have great survival rates.

My first wife was given two months to live when they found her cancer the first time. She took treatments that made her feel like she was already dead. She recovered after about a year. She lived ten more year without any cancer issues.

So I will advise you like I would some one that just had their wife die or got divorced, some major life changing event. Here goes. Do not make any major life changes for at least six months a year is even better.

So you need to keep a positive attitude and plan for lots of more tomorrows. The fight your in is as much mental as it is physical. I think you have never had any major health issue in your life so this is hitting you doubly hard.

So plan that fall garden or order the spring seeds for next year's garden. That will help more than worrying about thinning the hoard out now.

My first wife made it her goal to go and see Europe after her cancer came back. She did that the first year. Then the next year she wanted to hike the Grand Canyon. She did that but with a lot of help. She walked on the Canyon floor in July. She passed on Sept.28,1995. Fourteen years after her first sign of cancer.

What's obvious and what's the hurry? I was thinking about selling my 36 foot aluminum heavy sob of a ladder a couple years ago when my knee locked up trying to come down. At 68 I'm not likely to go up there again but selling it seems like giving up, might stumble upon the fountain of youth. And you're neighbor over the hill, Adirondack Case dude, doubt if he's sold any tools and sure don't look like he's slowed down any. Settle down a little and get that blue handle stick back on the ice.

I second that, about not making major decisions right now. Just put things on hold for now.

I work with two ladies who are both cancer survivors, one a fellow County Commissioner and the other our County Assessor. A year ago, "tomorrow" would have been a long term goal for either one. Now they're both back on the job, for all purposes as fit as ever.

Also, my father had cancer of the throat, probably from life-long pipe smoking. He underwent surgery, radiation treatments, etc. Fourteen years later, he died of a stroke with no sign of cancer in his body.

I third that notion of putting a big ol "Whoa" on any major decisions, Larry.

One should not make important decisions while under major stress/life changes.

My uncle died from a massive heart attack... and my aunt sold the dairy farm within weeks and moved to town. She later regretted it and very much wished she had not done it so hastily.

When I go to my son's house and pass through his garage it looks like I have donated tools already and explains why I was not having any luck looking for some tools. Pretty good load in the pickup on trip back home. He is my youngest and has youngest grandchild so they will probably go back and forth a lot.

Ditto, as I said SWMBO had rare aggressive breast cancer with very low survival rate and is still here 17 years later.

Don't get in too big a rush. At sixty two I was feeling pretty bad with cancer and a bad leg. In the back of my mind I was thinking maybe I was done doing the things I've always done. I tried to remain positive and kept looking forward though. Now, four years later, I'm feeling good again and doing more than I did before I got sick. I brought a few pieces of new equipment and moving forward again. I'm sure your feeling pretty bad right now but keep the faith, not to mention you got allot of people praying and pulling for you.

larry,
Lots of good advice.Any type of severe health problems and meds make one bad judgement after another for the afflicted individual.
The only one who knows when our time to leave this old world is the supreme maker,so please don't make
a RUSH to judgement!!!!!.
I lost both my wife,and daughter, cancer took my daughter 8 years ago,the wife last August.The dear wife with congestive heart failure,so my advice is "just stay the course'' and say thanks for each and every day God has let you see another day.
Later on,you will realize what ever will be will be.
Just keep the faith and look forward to tomorrow.
BET OF EVERYTHING.
Warmest regards to you and your family.
LOU.

Thank you Lou,,thank you very much,,so sorry to hear of your wifes passing,,Its great your son keeps your projects going,,its a really good thing for both of you,,,best of luck to all///Larry