I guess I have several observations: first, obviously, an emotional aspect to the woman losing her husband and having to deal with the artifacts of his passion, which clearly took a prominent place in their home. Not sure there's much one can do about loss of a person and some people are reluctant to let go of the things of a deceased spouse.
To the extent of collecting generally, I look at it a being a caretaker and if possible making it better, to pass on. I assembled a pretty major antiquarian style audio system over the course of years and have a considerable collection of LPs, some of extremely high value (on paper). Realistically, none of this stuff fetches what the "blue book" expects.
With cars, I always did ok, but it was a boom-boom market through the '90s into the aughts. Bikes- yeah, in the toilet, I think. The market is saturated, our generation (I'm 71) has done it already and from what I've seen a lot of the kids where I am, they ride small bikes, survivors Honda 250s or scooters, as opposed to liter bikes. (Sadly I knew a few youngsters who lost their lives on those things- too much bike, not enough skill).
I've set up a trust with my wife to dispose of my "stuff" and I'm being fairly dispassionate about it--when I'm gone it won't matter and I want to make it easy on her. At the same time, I have to say these things that I've plunged into with both feet have brought me great joy, and in that respect, you cannot measure it by money/value/market.
PS: To me, that Norton was the bomb, but I'm a sucker for vintage stuff.
Thanks for the post- I rarely watch long videos but did watch that one.
Last edited by BillHart; 04/06/25 08:55 PM.
