Bill, your on the right track regarding planning for the enviable. One
of our members has been alone for as long as I've known him, so I'm
supposed to dispose of his model assets and turn the proceeds over to a
charity of his choice. I don't relish the thought or the work, but it
will be done unless I go first.
As president of the largest all scale mmr club in Houston, we have guys
who have helped the widows arrange for the disposal of their items.
Besides that I get an average of 2 emails per month of people who are
still alive trying to get rid of layouts and stuff they've been
storing. I have a box of H0 'stuff' right now--anybody remember Cox?
All this stuff will be put on a bargain table at a show in February.
Bob Werre
> Hi Bill and all --
>
> For the last many years I have kept a log of my trains (both acquisitions
> and losses) that is part of our trust. I believe I used the forms that
> the
> NASG provided, though it could have been the NMRA. Every year we review
> the contents of the trust (assets) to make sure that our heirs know
> what is
> where and what to do with it, including who to contact for help. I build
> my layouts with screws – no glue or nails in the benchwork – so it can be
> taken down with relatively little fuss. Still, getting everything I have
> in the trainroom taken care of will be a monumental task, and I am
> sure the
> local landfill will get some of it! In any case, when you start going
> through your inventory, it will be astonishing (at least it was to me)
> how
> much “stuff” you have, and possibly by how much you have spent or what it
> might be worth, but the survivors need to know a ballpark answer.
>
> Let’s hope for many more years before all this comes into actual play,
> Bill Winans
> Prescott Valley, AZ
>
> .
>
>
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