What do you want to happen to your collection when you die?

[both-teams-played-hard]

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"Pawn Stars" is a great show. Joe six-pack's "Roadshow".

Anyone wonder if those framed Dodgers flannels in the background are gamers?

I really, really like that show. Better than any of that lame-sh!t they make in Hollywood or New York.

Quote of the 2nd season: "insult to the PEZ community" (responding to a lowball offer).

[jbcindc]

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My wife and I had this discussion not long ago and agreed that my son (from my first marriage) gets the NFL memorabilia and the daughter we have together gets all my wife's jewelry. Once we agreed to this and my wife had time to think about how much stuff I have, she announced that she needed a lot more jewelry. Great.

Jason

[sox83cubs84]

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If i go first, my wife gets it all to sell and procure funds from. If we both go together, or if I am the last to go, then whatever the collection is worth gets divided between my nieces and nephew on my wife's side. My brothers on my side threw me under the bus 15 years ago after our father died, and my will specifically states that they are to not see one cent of my estate, and to be prohibited from attending my wake and funeral. My in-laws (the Johnsons) get everything, what's left for the Miedemas (other than for my wife) is nada.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[3arod13]

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My collection will be buried with me, and I'm not telling any of you what cemetary I'll be in

[bigtruck260]

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My collection will be buried with me, and I'm not telling any of you what cemetary I'll be in

Not a bad idea Tony...perhaps a game used pyre?

[karamaxjoe]

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Since my kids could give a hoot about my jerseys, I will be going with the Tony plan and will be burried wearing 30 jerseys.

On the serious side I plan to sell or donate everything before I die. If I die before then, I have created a binder with color pictures, receipts, LOA's and explicit directions on how to liquidate everything. The last thing I want to see are my heirs being ripped off because I didn't plan well. I also created the binder for insurance purposes and have stored it in my fire proof safe.

[5kRunner]

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Hopefully I live to an old enough age where I can talk about it with my son/future kids/future grandkids. Because if they don't want it, I'll probably sell it before I go.

[cugolfnut]

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gatorcollector, drop me an email .....cugolfnut@yahoo.com

[Gridiron Heroes]

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Hoping I last another 40 years being I barely survived the first 40, I'd like to give the stuff to my future kids (still working on that). If not, it all goes to the University of Minnesota for their football museum. They can do what they want with it.

[OaklandAsFan]

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This is an interesting thread. My mother just recently passed and a few days before going she told me that her collection of stuff was for me to do what I wished (almost 2 complete T206 sets along with a variety of other pre-war cards) but she recommended I wait to sell them for awhile and I laughed at her and said "do you not pay attention to your son who collects baseball just as much as you do??" No way would I sell this stuff unless I absolutely had to.

I have 4 kids and of the 4 I can really see one maybe 2 of them being interested in my stuff. My older two kids are into way different things than sports memorabilia my younger daughter really likes to do things with me so I could see her picking it up and my youngest kid my little boy just loves sports so I could definitely see him picking it up so I guess the end of the story is that I will pass continue to collect and have added my mothers collection to mine and will eventually pass it on to my kids.

[70to66]

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I've had friends,co-workers, and others ask me this question before. I tell them come by my house the day after the funeral and there will probably be a big yard sale! My Wife and daughter could care less about my stuff, it's junk to them. My brother collects and thinks he will get it all!

[jake33]

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This may sound VERY strange but collecting Game used, has really made me devalue material possessions in general. Everything game used is a 1 of a kind and people outside the hobby do not get that. Everytime I sell something, i have to assume that it is gone forever. Also at the same time, I know certain items will become available down the road. all and all, there is nothing I can live without.

I would hope my family would recognize the difference between material possession and emotion and feeling of a human being. I would hope that they would sell everything and keep the money, and if I ever knock up some lady my offspring will know this for certain.

Really, after collecting for over a decade, the game used items really represent to me the time,effort, luck and patience in running the items down.

[sammy]

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I'll probably have it all sold at a loss and be doing something else before that time comes.

[philsfan]

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I have three young daughters who will likely not be interested in my Phil's collection that goes all the way back to my days of begging players for bats and autographs when I was a kid running around Vet Stadium during the early 80s. My plan is to wait 20 - 25 years and then sell most of my game used collection at auction. Most likely I'll use Hunt Auctions if they are still around. By then, the game used stuff should be worth a pretty penny. I'll split the money equally between each of my daughters. They can use it to help with a house downpayment, put it in savings, help buy a new care, whatever they like. I'll get the enjoyment of watching it sell at auction and seeing how much it fetches and my kids will get a gift they did not expect. The really high quality stuff I don't plan on selling and will be passed down to the next generation.

[gingi79]

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My wife will keep the 3 the loves, if I have children they will pick their favs, the rest will be donated to the players that wore them with my kind regards and thanks for the joy their play brought me.