Anyone ever get this feeling?

Dick2

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Has anyone ever gotten the feeling when you looked at your "collection", that you should dispose of everything and start over knowing what you know now?

What would you do differently? What would you collect? What would you avoid collecting?
 
I think that sometimes and think I should have just collected dollar bills...
But where would the fun in that be?
 
sold a few hand guns about 12 years ago; bad mistake. restored pedal cars and tractors in the 90's when demand was high, sold them when demand was low; bad mistake.
 
Yep all the time!
Sometimes I feel like getting rid of everything.
Sometimes I feel like going to look at something else to add to the fleet/collection.
Sometimes I don't know what to think.
Nothing but a darn sickness/disease....LOL...
 
I never wanted to dispose of "everything" and start over. I have collected tractors and implements that I decide I didn't like, need, or didn't work all that well. Those I sold and go on to the next thing that looks interesting.

I started collecting mounted implements for my Super C to use for my gardening. I decided that changing implements was too much work. SO I bought another Super C thinking I would configure it for a specific task and not have to change anything. This Super C happened to have a fast hitch on it. That started me on a completely different direction and I now have multiple fast hitch implements.

For me starting with the old Farmalls was about cost. It was far too expensive for me to go and buy all new. I pd $500 for my 1st SC and new was about $15,000. I justify my hobby by the fact that I still have far less than $15K in 5 old Farmalls and about 15 implements.
 

I always like the "thrill of the chase " when it comes to tractors. The only problem is , it's easy to purchase and always hard to sell at a profit, around this neck of the woods . A man has to have his toys L.O.L.
 
I walk through and wonder how they will ever take care of this in an estate sale. One of by buddies is a younger auctioneer, I am trying to enlighten him on what is there.
 
I had almost that exact conversation with a fella as I was leaving a military base tonight. I did four and then out. Looking back, twenty could have been done easily enough. Thirty now as easy, but easy enough. Was it a mistake not to do either? I don't know. But as we discussed, knowing them what one knows now, could have made some differences. And then again, knowing now what didn't know then aint gonna change nothing, so may as well not overthink it unless it involved you giving some stranger the winning $100 million lottery ticket or the best girlfriend that you ever had and you know that you did. Then, just kick yourself.

Mark
 
The first tractor I ever owned I never thought I would quite using it. Been setting in the machine shed all winter with four brand new tires on it.
 
Dispose of?? Never. I was telling my wife just this evening ,I have enough tractors.Just as I fininshed my shpeal, there was this Cub on Craigslist begging me ,,,,,,,,,
 
no, i buy something because i want it. i never buy to sell. i have owned a few vehicles that i bought, sold, traded because i needed something to get me from point A to point B and i didn't want to drive my nice car or pickup on the salty streets. i still have the 78 trans am that i bought brand new for my 18th birthday. im gonna restore it some day when i can turn my outside shop into an indoor shop.
 
Thinking of moving across country, will have to sell all the big iron. I"m okay with most of it, tough to let some old friends go, but the worst thought is leaving the shop-all the tools it took so long to collect and a place to work on stuff. That is big problem, wife wants low maintenance place no shop! I think I need a shop to escape.
The thought is if I get rid of all the stuff and large place more time to do fun things like hike, bike, ski, travel, ect. We almost have to leave here as taxes are so high and area is developing in a way not suited to us. I like the idea of time for fun stuff but hate to sell all the toys!!!!!
 
(quoted from post at 05:42:10 04/18/14) Thinking of moving across country, will have to sell all the big iron. I"m okay with most of it, tough to let some old friends go, but the worst thought is leaving the shop-all the tools it took so long to collect and a place to work on stuff. That is big problem, wife wants low maintenance place no shop! I think I need a shop to escape.
The thought is if I get rid of all the stuff and large place more time to do fun things like hike, bike, ski, travel, ect. We almost have to leave here as taxes are so high and area is developing in a way not suited to us. I like the idea of time for fun stuff but hate to sell all the toys!!!!!
on't get rid of your lifetime collection of tools. It will be like cutting of an arm. Have a shop/escape, even if smaller. My kids will have to get rid of mine after I'm gone, because I won't as long as I am on the green side of the turff!
 
(quoted from post at 02:42:10 04/18/14) Thinking of moving across country, will have to sell all the big iron. I"m okay with most of it, tough to let some old friends go, but the worst thought is leaving the shop-all the tools it took so long to collect and a place to work on stuff. That is big problem, wife wants low maintenance place no shop! I think I need a shop to escape.
The thought is if I get rid of all the stuff and large place more time to do fun things like hike, bike, ski, travel, ect. We almost have to leave here as taxes are so high and area is developing in a way not suited to us. I like the idea of time for fun stuff but hate to sell all the toys!!!!!




i agree with jmor,
if you sell all your stuff that makes you part of who you are, you will find yourself always regretting it and spending a fortune to replace it. which you will.
 
(quoted from post at 02:42:10 04/18/14) Thinking of moving across country, will have to sell all the big iron. I"m okay with most of it, tough to let some old friends go, but the worst thought is leaving the shop-all the tools it took so long to collect and a place to work on stuff. That is big problem, wife wants low maintenance place no shop! I think I need a shop to escape.
The thought is if I get rid of all the stuff and large place more time to do fun things like hike, bike, ski, travel, ect. We almost have to leave here as taxes are so high and area is developing in a way not suited to us. I like the idea of time for fun stuff but hate to sell all the toys!!!!!

SMS, I understand about being forced out by taxes. Here in southern NH, many people come from Taxachusetts to live in the country, then vote in all the expensive services, driving taxes way up. I can understand the need to move but just make it part of the deal that you get to have your shop, even if it is just an addition to the garage.
 
(quoted from post at 00:28:54 04/18/14) Has anyone ever gotten the feeling when you looked at your "collection", that you should dispose of everything and start over knowing what you know now?

What would you do differently? What would you collect? What would you avoid collecting?

When I started collecting petroliana I wasn't focused on any certain aspect of the hobby. I collected oil can banks, handy oilers, oil bottles, 1 pound grease cans, quart cans, anti-freeze cans, gas pumps, signs, gas pump globes....pretty much anything gas station related. I had friends in the hobby that collected a little bit of everything, but most of them also specialized in collecting certain things, and dabbled in the other stuff. After returning home from the Iowa Gas collectors convention one year I looked at all the stuff I bought. I had bought a lot of very average stuff. That's when some advice a veteran collector friend finally sunk in. He had told me several times to always buy the best item I could afford. He said if you have $50 to spend, spend it on the best $50 item you could find. If you have $300 to spend, buy the best $300 item you can find. That was very good advice. That's the day I became a gas pump globe collector rather than a petroliana collector. I sold off most of my collection and got serious about building my globe collection. I still dabble in some of the other stuff, but globes are my focus. I also collect most anything related to Sinclair service stations to add to my late son's Sinclair collection.
Most collectors I know buy some stuff to resell to help fund their collecting habit. That's fine, but it's a mistake to view a collection as an investment. I've seen several collectors change from collecting because they enjoyed it to collecting as an investment. In every instance when that happened they got less enjoyment out of the hobby.
I have thought about selling a major portion of my collection. I'm glad I didn't.
 
(quoted from post at 09:42:10 04/18/14) Thinking of moving across country, will have to sell all the big iron. I"m okay with most of it, tough to let some old friends go, but the worst thought is leaving the shop-all the tools it took so long to collect and a place to work on stuff. That is big problem, wife wants low maintenance place no shop! I think I need a shop to escape.
The thought is if I get rid of all the stuff and large place more time to do fun things like hike, bike, ski, travel, ect. We almost have to leave here as taxes are so high and area is developing in a way not suited to us. I like the idea of time for fun stuff but hate to sell all the toys!!!!!
SMS,
Why not get a low maintenance place with a shop? Or I guess you could ask your wife if she'd rather have you set up shop in the living and dining rooms. :lol:
Don't get rid of your tools.
 
YEP...Daily.. I'm going to Williamsfield show in July to get rid of stuff I'll never ever again use..Mag drill , genny, misc parts , in general , just stuff....A trailer load....
 
sms,

I think you need at least a small shop and your tools... but just make the effort to go out sometimes and do fun stuff with your wife.

Just can't imagine a fella without a shop to hangout in! Seems like it could be detrimental to matrimony. :)
 
The "fun stuff" won't be much fun if you're resenting her making you get rid of your shop and tools. I would never think of getting a place without a shop, just like Mrs. (WA) would never get a place without a horse stall. Until we're both too feeble to do anything, of course- then its probably the Shady Glen Nursing Home.
 

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