Finally had a chance to finish cleaning out my garage this weekend. What’s the point of finding and collecting all this neat stuff if I can’t display it? I collected allot of items over the winter and I was running out of space. I ended up donating allot of items, selling some and relocating others to the attic.
I got a call from Joe in Rockford IL who was looking to clean out his basement. He is moving in the next year and has been in the same house since the mid sixties. It was the house he grew up in, his dad was quite the collector/hoarder and did not throw away anything over the years. There was allot of junk that should basically be scrapped but there were also numerous hidden treasurers throughout the basement. So many that he actually called me to come back a second time a month after the first time I visited. The nice thing about many of the items I uncovered was that they were extremely well taken care of. They were wrapped it in paper bags, old socks and canvas bags and tied with twine. So it was kind of like opening a Christmas present each time I found something. I ended up buying a good deal of items from him and also pointing out some items that others may be interested in. I came across this awesome chart of hand tools that I will probably end up ordering for myself. The chart is made and sold by a company called Pop Chart Lab and they offer similar wall charts for everything from Beer to Video Games.
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