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03-22-2020, 06:57 PM | #13 | ||||||
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You can do what Garry is doing with Excel. You can link any cell to a photo or a document. There's nothing much simpler than an Excel spreadsheet and you can do an awful lot with them.
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03-22-2020, 07:36 PM | #14 | ||||||
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That's sort of what I have been doing. Created my own Excel evaluation form as I call it. I store those forms along with pics, research letters, and anything else of relevance in Dropbox.
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03-22-2020, 07:51 PM | #15 | ||||||
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The software is called Recollector. I'm pretty sure excel is just as good (at least my wife tells me so, and she has decent computer skills). I never had to make spreadsheets in my work (but had plenty shoved at me). Recollector is very easy to use. Trust me, my computer skills are pretty weak...and I use a Mac, so much of the Microsoft "stuff" is far beyond my pay grade.
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03-22-2020, 08:53 PM | #16 | ||||||
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This loose leaf binder is on my shelves; the record book was available from Mike Murphy & Sons and maybe still is; it's tucked inside. It shows who, when, where etc. the gun came from, price paid, repairs/alterations made and cost, serial numbers, and any other tidbits about each gun. At least my family will have an idea of value. I have similar records of rods & reels, musical instruments, etc. As to other things of value - books, art, pipes, misc. stuff...not so much. I guess they're on their own there . I do remember a quote I saw that I always loved: "My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it."
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03-22-2020, 09:07 PM | #17 | |||||||
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Quote:
• “My biggest fear is that when I’m dead and gone, my wife will try to sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.”
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03-22-2020, 09:35 PM | #18 | ||||||
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Thanks Rick, I've seen it lots of places, and for guns, guitars, and other things. I substituted "stuff" on account of I have lots of "stuff" myself; never knew who it was attributed to.
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03-23-2020, 08:47 AM | #19 | ||||||
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I just inventoried "The Arsenal" and found I have 77 guns. I did a spread sheet as I only had loose leaf journal of some of the guns. Because we are moving to town when the farm sells I am in the process of downsizing. I didn't protect my inheritance as well as I should, but then they were not my guns. So, I'm either going to do a dispersal or offer the grandchildren a choice or both. I'm leaning toward doing a dispersal and the guns leftover being inheritable. Right now selling guns feels like I'm about to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
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03-23-2020, 09:33 AM | #20 | ||||||
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Phil,Guns I have listed and the wife knows what I paid and every year a new what its worth now price, but you got me thinking about musical instruments, My father lived to be 95 and back in the thirties he played in a group called the " The Carolina Boys" They played on the radio twice weekly, I have his Gibson guitar, The folks in Nashville tell me it was made around 1920, He told me he bought it in a pawn shop in the early thirties, It has the greatest sound, the frets are worn down from much playing, my kids do not play, I refuse to sell it I have had numerous offers, got to decide who gets it and make sure they value it for what it is. So I need to include my guitars in the value of things had not even thought of that till your post, Thanks Gary
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