What happens when you die?

[col]

Was browsing ebay and came across this:

eBay Seller: jacki353: Electronics, Clothing, Shoes, Accessories items on eBay Australia

Seems like an avid diyer has passed RIP!

Good job he had a devoted SWMBO.

Most of the stuff looks like SiliconChip kits. Some nicely built amps (see amp kit #X ).

Wonder if he was a DIYaudio member. Anyone recognise anything?

Hope she does well with the auctions.

col.

[kevinahcc20]

Rigor mordis...necrosis....return of borrowed molecules to the planetary bank. Only your progeny (organic & inorganic) will remain to enumerate your entropic "bank account" balance!

[raypalmer]

That's sad. It's the personal things, to me mostly the hobby things that sum up a person's free time pursuits that are melancholic.

My work always brings me through people's homes and often times its shortly after someone's snuffed it. Rooms get renovated, homes get polished for sale that sort of thing.

The things that have made me sad:

-Boxes and boxes of needlepoint pictures (what are they called?)
-A workshop where a guy made lots of little doll's house furniture.
-A room full of model airplanes.

Every time someone's like "oh we've gotta through out this junk!" But that was somebodies passion, it kept their threadbare worn sanity whole. I'm going to write in my will that my stuff get's encased in concrete and buried in the desert. That way in thousands of years someone will find it and it won't matter that it's junk because it's so old they'll have to treasure it!

"Who was this ancient craftsman? What significance did this "Boz Scaggs" hold for him? All this tonight on Nova."

[jackinnj]

All of the discounts you're wife obtained while buying on sale accrue to your benefit.

[tubelab.com]

A friend from high school calls me and tells me he has two semi trailers full of old military electronics. I can have all of the tubes for free if I help him unload and sort. I put over 100,000 tubes into a rental warehouse that I already have full of "stuff".

My father passed leaving a house full of "stuff" and two Volvos. It took almost two years of weekends to clean out the house since it is 100 miles away. Some of the usable "stuff" wound up in a second rental warehouse that we are paying for. My daughter gets one Volvo and I get the other. Both have since died.

The store where my wife worked went out of business. We get a lot of free "stuff". It goes into another storage facility.

Sherri's step father passes and we start the process of cleaning up the house. Sherri's mother gets cancer and was told she had 6 months to a year. The cleanup process accelerates but that house is 1200 miles away. I inherit a pickup truck with a camper which helps move thee "stuff". The house is 90 years old and really full of "stuff". Sherris mother is now in her 4th year of terminal cancer. There are good days punctuated with hospital stays. One of us is there nearly all the time. Each trip brings back more "stuff".

THEN THE REALITY CHECK SMACKS BOTH OF US IN THE FACE!!

I am rapidly approaching 60 years of age and we have accumulated more stuff and projects than each of us can use in 5 lifetimes. The rent on the storage facilities keeps increasing. We are now paying about $2500 per year to keep the "stuff". My only offspring is a daughter who lives 3500 miles away. She doesn't know an ohm from a gigawatt, so she would likely call a liquidator to clean out the house, and the rental storage stuff would go to scrap.

We have decided to start the purge now! We need to reduce our expenses, and paying rent on "stuff" just doesn't add up. Three storage units is now two, and with luck will be one by the end of October. I believe Sherri is down to enough "stuff" to last the rest of her life, but I still have two lifetimes worth. 100,000 tubes is now 10,000. I have found projects stashed away that I built back in high school. They have been photographed and scrapped.

If you are as much of a pack rat as I have been. Think about "What happens when you die?"

[jackinnj]

I know the feeling - I found the pcb I made back in the 1960's for a ham radio receiver the other day!

[pooge]

What happens when you die?

If it's to hell, it's probably an endless objectivist vs. subjectivist debate loop!

[tubelab.com]

If it's to hell, it's probably an endless objectivist vs. subjectivist debate loop!

No it's rap music from a low bit rate MP3 player.

[SGregory]

I'll vote for rap music in any format.

[eyoung]

I'm 57 I don't Want to think about it I just want to listen to my vinyl...did I mention I have a daughter turning 15 10/10...(I did not mention my accumulated junk)God"or your favorite deity"help us all...

Regards, Elwood