Storage Lockers being forced to vacate gear

[J M Fahey]

[QUOTE=nevetslab;n1007461]

Well, I am still alive.

....The service here has been vastly superior to what I experienced at the first nursing home back in September and October. So I am now improving as far as it concerns getting on my legs and using the walker to get my left leg exercised, as my surgeon gave the ok to begin after he saw the latest X-rays taken and sent to him at midnight of Nov14
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That move cost me $4500 and eliminated the possibility of moving into another recovery home when my new insurance policy runs out. Trying to get onto Metacaid as I have no income coming in and my yearly income should qualify me. But will all that happen in time before where tossed out of here into the streets when the present funds run out. Sigh…..
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At least I got the contents moved. I could have had all that done in plenty of time to spare if I hadn’t been run down.

Dear Nevetslab:

1) HAPPY you are getting better, even if slowly.

2) Happy you are in a better place and properly being taken care of.

3) JUNK ALL YOUR JUNK
Serious.

I am in a similar situation, sold my HUGE house (19 rooms 5500 sq ft) chock full of "valuable" stuff, and have NO place to put all that in.

Thought of renting an ex-factory warehouse , not kidding, but then read a book which changed my mind forever.

Itīs called "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning"


Title sounds horrible but actually refers to an OLD (Vikings era, not kidding) costume of "cleaning house the way YOUR HEIRS would"

As in, serious: "what will your daughter do with 3 Tektronix wall AC size scopes"??? Which need carts to be moved around?
Applies to everything else.

Absolute best case, she can sell them on EBay (If so, do it yourself); if not, junk them *now* (which is what she will do anyway).
Harsh but realistic.

Could send you the full PDF if you wish, but it is written by an 80 something Swedish Lady so it deals a lot on old clothing, sentimental value, etc., BUT it has a chapter dedicated to "Man Caves", very accurate and to the point.

I am attaching just that chapter (about 5% or less of the book) so I guess it is covered by "fair use and comment" provisions.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GK5...usp=drive_link

It might help some, it certainly helped me.

At least to get rid of tons of old amps, pedals, hardware, FAX machines, computers (only kept some power supplies and of course all hard disks), monitors, tape heads, motors, *BOOKS* (nobody reads paper books any more), clothes, bicycles, a car engine, odd speakers, old project PCBs, you-name-it.

Again, hope you get well soon.
JMF

[DrGonz78]

I am currently doing a weekly cleanup for my 96 year old grandma. I have boxes full of every decades old mail, newspapers and miscellaneous items. The garage is full of everything you can think of and then some. It’s hoarding on a very organized level. She would never let anyone ever do this type of cleanup but she is letting me. Filling garbage after garbage with old junk mail is exhausting. This is why I am going into sales diy style. Don’t collect it! Sell it!! To people who can collect it. I am merely a middleman and mover of goods. I will probably end up as hoarder anyway so organize it and even put a price tag on it. Collecting is fun. But Juan is on the money! Selling is great for so many reasons.

[Chuck H]

Agree! Collecting "stuff" happens for a number of reasons. An old piece of gear YOU know to have value may not actually have any. It served you well once upon a time and maybe it even qualifies as "vintage" in the right eyes, but... Most of these sorts of things really don't have enough value to store or hoard. If YOU have not used it in ten years why would anyone else? Sure it has that old, dusty electronics smell we all know and love. Maybe it still works but it should probably have the electrolytics replaced after so many years of service and then many more of disuse. Is it really worth the time, effort and expense? We intend to test, repair or restore these things but it's so far on the back burner that if we're honest with ourselves we know we're never getting to it. Just a stream of consciousness on the matter.

The most recent things I got rid of were:

An old Pioneer RT707 reel to reel. What a great machine! Still worth a few hundred in full restoration. Mine was not. Carried it around for three moves. Just couldn't look at it anymore. The death nell was when I couldn't find anyone to take it for free. I haven't missed it.

A bunch of old cassette tapes from back when I used a Tascam unit for recordings. Probably everything I ever did with my old band was on those tapes. I knew getting rid of them meant all records that I ever played music would be gone. But I no longer have that old Tascam. Or even a casstette player of any kind. Finding either worth using or listening to without undue trouble in expense and repairs is getting to be a thing now as old as such things are. It's easy to see why I wouldn't want to get rid of those old tapes but in the end I decided that keeping them made no difference in my life as it stands because I was never going to hear them again anyway. Ouch!

An old Marshall head. The cabinet had been cut up (badly) for installing a giant fan and it had been re covered (badly) with white vinyl. The chassis had a bunch of extra holes, large and small, from modifications. The board had so many clunky trace and pad repairs that you almost couldn't work on it. I didn't do any of these things to it. It was my first Marshall amp because I could afford it as a young player on a budget. I did get it into working order and used it a bit but it wasn't reliable. Once I was able to buy a better example of the same model this amp was shelved. Never to be used again. But it WAS a "Marshall" so I was holding onto it. Since there was no real aceptible restoration possible I eventually stripped it for parts and tossed it.

Half a dozen old rack mount devices. An Alesis Quadreverb with no display and some shorting on the jacks during use. A Peavey fifteen band EQ from the late 80's that was pretty crummy to begin with. Etc. Stuff that I used once upon a time but now old, disused and in some cases slightly broken. And nothing anyone (including myself) would ever want to play through now. Junk masquerading as gear at this point. I haven't missed any of it.