Keep it, or sell it?

[Oldcountryboy]

Any of you have this same problem? You have equipment, tools, junk, around the place that you don't really want to get rid of, but yet you haven't used them in years and may not be for several more years if you use ever again?

I've been contemplating on loading a trailor full of stuff and take it to a auction. Stuff that I doubt that I could get very much money out of, but if you add them all up together then you might have enough to go buy you something you really need. Not to mention making my place look a little cleaner.

I just hate when a disaster hits nearby but misses and then you see the state govenor flying over looking at your property as if it was included in the disaster.

I need to get rid of some stuff, I tell you!

[whocares]

[QUOTE=Oldcountryboy;3078930]Any of you have this same problem? You have equipment, tools, junk, around the place that you don't really want to get rid of, but yet you haven't used them in years and may not be for several more years if you use ever again?

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Yes thats why I have a barn...to store that stuff!!!

[mousecat33]

If I have not touched it in one year ( not including redirecting it to another location to make room for a newer/nicer piece of stuff ) it goes to sale, charity, recycle, dump, artificial reef, etc. Have enough 'yard art' as it is.

mc and co

[TNHermit]

I was just looking at a 45 collection of construction tools. I should sell. Never gonna be young enough again to use the stuff. but then you pick something up and remember things. That makes it hard.

It won't go cheap I tell ya. Not gonna let it go cheap!!!

[Up North]

Tools, good welding iron, and good lumber you keep. Anything else, well, if I have not used it in the last 5 years, I probably won't in the next. It's gone.
Don't have to mow around it or risk having a cow hurt herself on it that way.

[clovis]

Simplify your life...sell it ASAP.

Clove

[onthespot]

If you can sell it for more than you could rent a replacement tool for the forseeable times you would need it, sell. If you will need it in a few years but could not afford to buy or rent it then, hang onto it.

[soulsurvivor]

Not certain, but you might get more for it selling as scrap metal. The high prices sure have cleaned up the countryside around here.

[stranger]

we're having tags sales this yr til all the junk we've collected over the past 40 yrs is gone, the attic is full, the barn is full, the garage is full. If the kids wanted anything, it would have been gone by now.

[CraftyDiva]

If you haven't used it in years and don't see yourself needing it in the near future sell it. Of course Fate has a way of playing games with us poor mortals. After you sell it, a situation arises where you could use the item you just sold yesterday

[THETOOLMAN]

I keep all my valuable junk.One of the most used places on a farm is the junk pile. I use stuff out of it every day. I used some parts that my granddaddy threw in there yesterday. I would go broke if I had to buy every thing.

[hunter63]

The Law Of Stuff;
If you get rid of it today, you will need it tomorrow, as in, If you have it, you won't need it.

LOL, I hear you, trying to wittle down 35 years worth of "stuff", so as to sell this place and move to the Homestead.

I guess it wasn't a good idea to build "The Place", furnish it, then wonder what to do will all the other stuff.
Maybe just keep this place to store "stuff" in?

Suggestion have been to rent a storage unit, but why then pay every month to be able to visit your "stuff", that you never use anyway?

Been at it a year, and are making some progress.

[Freeholder]

While I totally understand, and agree with, the desire to keep your place from looking like a disaster area (LOL!), I cringe when I see old horse-drawn implements sitting out in the weather, or worse, headed for the scrap-metal place. Some of that stuff is worthless, sure, but some is fixable and could be used, and I will just about guarantee you, if you get rid of it now, in a few years you are going to be wishing you hadn't done it. It will be all but impossible to replace.

Kathleen

[Oldcountryboy]

Okay you people have just about got the gee-willies scared out of me trying to sell it! What I'm afraid of is needing it as soon as I get rid of it. Some stuff I have around are equipment from business adventures that didn't pan out for some reason or other. So there I am stuck with equipment that I know I wont get the same money out of it as what I gave for it. Yet, I'm tired of looking at it and don't know if I'll ever try the same business adventures again ever. Worried I'll only get a small fraction of what I gave for it.

[jlxian]

Yes. And this is a sore point at our house. I guess both of us are guilty, but when I look out at some of high dollar stuff lurking behind our barn and know we have NEVER used it, steam comes out my ears.

[edcopp]

The problem here is the BANDITS are stealing me blind. If it can be moved by man and/or machine somebody will steal it or already has. Scrap iron is selling very high. The local theives will work hard to get a load of anything they can. The only way that I can keep anything is to have it inside a building, and that's no guatantee.

[Use Less]

Oh,yeah and also, it all depends.... But I am sorting through the basement, after stressing out awfully this AM when I simply could NOT locate a sparkplug wrench to see if I can get the darn tractor running. Nope, no temper fit or venting, just steam out my ears. We have a bunch of parts, nails, screws, some spare tools (twins if not triplets.) He's not all that handy, I don't want to be in charge of all the repairs and mechanical stuff as well as housekeeping I want/need to do, etc.,etc. But he likes to buy the stuff, and we moved boxes of it from his mother's. Then a bought some from an older neighbor. SO five hours later, have sorted about 10 square feet of floorspace, though to the ceiling, and it's leaving. Nothing we couldn't buy or borrow if we actually needed it. Sue

[Danaus29]

Some of you are making me feel guilty for telling dh he needs to declutter my yard. And the basement, and the guest house. Some of this junk he has had for 30 + years and moved 4 or 5 times. But IMO, if you haven't touched in since you set it down 10 years ago, and it's exposed to the elements, and you will never do anything with it, and you're always crabbing about MY stuff setting around (like I have that much stuff) then your junk needs to go! Especially the stuff that is getting ruined like the '79 Mustang Cobra with the 302 block and 351 heads that hasn't run for 15 years. Yep, it needs to find another home.

[airotciv]

There are reasons we all have barns/sheds, we can't part with stuff, because as soon as we get rid of it we will need it. Tools and farm equipment are the hardest, thats why we have a barn full, because it is so expensive to replace. But we have a barn full of kids stuff, old computers, tv's, sons army stuff, you name it, they don't want to get rid of it, so they will store it at mom/dads house. I use to have an arts and craft studio, until the barns overfilled and everyone took over my space. Good luck opening the door. Then there is the barn that is piled and know one has a clue whats out there, stuff never unbacked from the move 10 years ago. All I can say, if this family doesn't get rid of stuff, we are going to need to build another barn.

[MushCreek]

Originally Posted by Oldcountryboy

I just hate when a disaster hits nearby but misses and then you see the state governor flying over looking at your property as if it was included in the disaster.

Hey! I resemble that remark!
Let's put it this way- if I pour a gallon of water in my garage, it takes 10 minutes to reach the floor. I know I need to start selling some stuff- we're going to start our place in the country in a couple years, and I'm NOT dragging all this junk with me! Smaller stuff does well on ebay, and craig's list is strong in our area for selling bigger items. Someone, somewhere actually wants your stuff!