Not sure how much folks follow what's going on with my family, but a reminder. I got VERY quiet online as I was dealing with a good number of deaths in the extended family, and we are still dealing with the estate fallout of that.
Well that has given my wife a huge case of the heebie jeebies. We are roughly the same age, and as women tend to outlive men, she has gotten concerned that she won't know what to do with the shop after I am gone, nor how to value any of it.
I had a running tally of what is in the shop, and what the actual purchase price was. And no I didn't lie on it to keep the wife from being mad, she more or less supports the shop stuff as long as I get projects out of there she wants... I.E. her clock, cutting board, and even though we are not Jewish, she likes Menorahs... a LOT... And a project that she packed away already I should have posted, A wooden Advent candle wreath. But I digress.
The problem was the document was a spreadsheet in Excel, and included photos so she knew what the things actually were. And it included a LOT of items that have since been sold, broken, replaced etc... I.E. the Shop Vac 2.5" ducting system that I sold years ago, was still on there...
And the worst part, I moved it to Google Sheets.
Only to find out after I deleted the original xlsx file that google sheets did NOT carry over the images...
So I have to ask you guys, and gals of course for some advice on this issue.
Since we don't have kids of our own, and our nieces and nephews are at the youngest now in their 30s, and if they have ANY interest in woodworking (there are 2) they already have their own shops equipped and have been recieving tools and equipment from me for years...
So that leaves the question of how can I inventory this stuff so that whomever comes after me, assuming my wife outlives me, doesn't cheat her on the value of this stuff when she goes to inevitably liquidate it, which I know she will do. It's of no use to her, and again, I have no one as an heir that would have any interest in it, I would rather see it liquidated and gone to someone or several someones that would appreciate the equipment and give my wife some liquid capital to make her time after me easier...
Mind you, God willing we have decades to go before we are in that position, but we are never guaranteed even the next moment, so I just want to at least take that bit of stress off of her...
Well that has given my wife a huge case of the heebie jeebies. We are roughly the same age, and as women tend to outlive men, she has gotten concerned that she won't know what to do with the shop after I am gone, nor how to value any of it.
I had a running tally of what is in the shop, and what the actual purchase price was. And no I didn't lie on it to keep the wife from being mad, she more or less supports the shop stuff as long as I get projects out of there she wants... I.E. her clock, cutting board, and even though we are not Jewish, she likes Menorahs... a LOT... And a project that she packed away already I should have posted, A wooden Advent candle wreath. But I digress.
The problem was the document was a spreadsheet in Excel, and included photos so she knew what the things actually were. And it included a LOT of items that have since been sold, broken, replaced etc... I.E. the Shop Vac 2.5" ducting system that I sold years ago, was still on there...
And the worst part, I moved it to Google Sheets.
Only to find out after I deleted the original xlsx file that google sheets did NOT carry over the images...
So I have to ask you guys, and gals of course for some advice on this issue.
Since we don't have kids of our own, and our nieces and nephews are at the youngest now in their 30s, and if they have ANY interest in woodworking (there are 2) they already have their own shops equipped and have been recieving tools and equipment from me for years...
So that leaves the question of how can I inventory this stuff so that whomever comes after me, assuming my wife outlives me, doesn't cheat her on the value of this stuff when she goes to inevitably liquidate it, which I know she will do. It's of no use to her, and again, I have no one as an heir that would have any interest in it, I would rather see it liquidated and gone to someone or several someones that would appreciate the equipment and give my wife some liquid capital to make her time after me easier...
Mind you, God willing we have decades to go before we are in that position, but we are never guaranteed even the next moment, so I just want to at least take that bit of stress off of her...
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