[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by DAB

Dad had a large collection of animal heads, about 30 or so.

i made about 20 calls to various places, no one was interested in them. us kids had no place for any of them at our houses. figured it would cost about $5k to pack and ship them if I had a place for them (maybe in my shop with 12' ceilings). Dad had assumed that I could sell the mess for 20-40k. wrong.

I ended up giving them to a local artist, so he could use them for life studies of animals. At least they didn't get tossed in the trash. I did keep the bear rugs, they are still packed in duffle bags, I don't have any wall space to hang them.

Just because it consumed your time and money and energy, does not mean that anyone else will value or appreciate it later on when you are gone.

Told the Inlaws nobody would want most of their stuff and told FIL to sell his hobby stuff as one we wouldn't know what it's worth and two don't want it. It'd be money lost if he didn't.. He hasn't yet and probably won't so I'll be stuck with a ton of "valuables".