This question came up on another board so I thought I'd see what you all say. Someday when you die, what will happen to your collection? :'(
My answer is:
So far I've told my family to keep whatever things they want. If they don't want all of them there's one thing I have that I'd like to go to a special person. Then after that, they should sell them at a good price. That is, don't put them in a garage sale with $5 on the tag. They don't even have to sell them as far as I'm concerned. As long as they go to somebody that would really like them and would take care of them, that would be OK with me.
My family will have no clue what to do with my possessions. You can pretty much write off the entire collection. If I knew I was dying and had time to make arrangements, I would sell it/give it away myself or put it in the hands of people who would carry out my wishes. But if I just kick the bucket unexpectedly, the collection is toast.
Quote from: raycastile on March 28, 2009, 02:36:15 PM
My family will have no clue what to do with my possessions. You can pretty much write off the entire collection. If I knew I was dying and had time to make arrangements, I would sell it/give it away myself or put it in the hands of people who would carry out my wishes. But if I just kick the bucket unexpectedly, the collection is toast.
Or if you have kids, maybe they will inherit your love for monsters and you can leave it to them. Hey, you never know!
My mom's fiance says he wants to be buried with his
entire toy collection, when he dies.
If I still have my collection when I die, unless my brother turns out to be a geek like me and wants to take it, it will probably end up getting donated to charity. (starts whistling "Dust in the Wind")
Some of the stuff aside from monster memoribillia has managed to survive my childhood..from comic books, to action figures and of course monsters. I'd like to hope that one day I'll eventually find a woman who isnt possessed by Satan and these things will give maybe a son or daughter the joy that they gave me for many many years. Until then who knows...Im pretty happy to be among the living enjoying my stuff right now. To quote Motorhead "The only time I'm gonna be easy is when I'm killed by death!"...in other words, I will fight with every last ounce of energy to stay here and play with my stuff! :)
If neither of my kids want any of it, between our Disney and my monster collection, they should be able to fund a decent trip for themselves. That would be my wish.
Quote from: BlackLagoon on March 28, 2009, 03:30:09 PM
I'd like to hope that one day I'll eventually find a woman who isnt possessed by Satan .....
Good Luck with that one! ;D
BK
My daughter gets it all. I have told her to only keep the stuff that means something to her.
As for the rest of you, feel free to leave me in your wills! :D
BK
Quote from: BlackLagoon on March 28, 2009, 03:30:09 PM
I'd like to hope that one day I'll eventually find a woman who isnt possessed by Satan...
I've already found her, sorry.
She has a sister though!
Mike C.
Would her maiden name be gulch by any chance?
My collection is going to my nephew and a few close friends, the only condition I've placed on it is that if he has to sell it just keep the magazines I wrote for during my lifetime.
I won't give a hoot. I'll be dead.
It'll be my wife's problem, unless she goes first, then my 2 daughters inherit it all. They can do with it what they want, keep what they wish, sell the rest, give it to the UMA Home for Unloved Monster Society or whatever.........
If my current financial situation doesn't improve pretty darn quick, I won't have time to make it to the tomb before my collection is broken up amongst various eBay bidders! At bargain basement prices too, no doubt!
If I can't take the CREEPY's with me, I'm not going!
Seriously, the DVD's will go to Karen, and the magazines, masks, books, and everything else will go to my siblings. I already know my stuff will still be loved when I'm gone. If it's a slow enough death, some of my UMA brothers and sisters may recieve a few items too (the LIVING DEAD ZOMBIE DOLLS are yours then Laura).
Unfortunately for my wife, if there isn't some sort of collection deaccession, she'll be shoveling this crap into a dumpster. :D
Quotethe LIVING DEAD ZOMBIE DOLLS are yours then Laura
Thank you Uncle Creepy! You're the best. Just don't die just for me!
I have three friends who are all very savvy on comics, original art, collectibles, etc, as well as eBay and comic show selling experience. The agreement is that when one of us goes, the others can pick something out for ourselves (if we want), then help the family get the best value for anything they don't want to keep.
Who says I'm going? ;)
George
My girlfriend will get the DVDs, to divvy out as she deems fit; I know she won't want all of it. My son gets the rest of the collectibles, which he will be free to sell if he decides they're no longer his thing.
I would kind of like to be buried with my silver-wolfs-head cane, but I won't be upset if someone wants it. In fact, I won't be upset if they opt to cremate me. Heck, maybe I'll include a proviso in my will that anyone who gets anything from my estate has to carry a portion of my ashes with them for a year, so I get the opportunity to haunt them at my leisure.
Even if I dropped this very minute, my things will be divided between four of my youngest family members. They are all monster fans due in very large part to my direct (and diabolical) influence during their formative years, hehe!
And it's not like it's terribly valuable to anyone BUT the family of a monster freak, especially when they are also monster freaks themselves, right?
In the end it's just stuff. LOVELY, joyful, inspiring, but 'stuff' nonetheless.
Mike C.
When I go my Wife will get all my stuff to sell.If she goes before me or we go together then my Grandsons who are already in to monsters will get everything ;D
I've left mine to the Legeon Of Squirrels. (Hey, they asked first!)
Mine's going to one or both of my sons. With a stipulation that if they ever divorce it reverts to my youngest brother. The only stuff I wanna make sure they keep is the stuff I painted and built. But its best to keep it all up for them. Not that its a great legacy or anything, I've jsut spent so much time collecting it, I would hate it if it wound up in a landfill or divided and dolled out to strangers. ;D
Well, this is a very unique question. First of all, I fully intend on living another 50 years or so as I'm only 31 but so much can change in that amount of time and if I don't have that kind of time.. WHO KNOWS!!?? Ideally, I'd like to run the museum for the rest of my life and expand when funds allow. By the time I'm ready to go I hope that I have children who would want to carry on the museum and my dream. Hopefully I will have taught them for years about how to do this strange thing that I do. If I don't have children, I would want my nephews to take it over and hopefully I will have done the same with them. If none of that happens, I suppose my relations will sell the museum piece by piece or as a museum. I just hope I don't somehow fail with the museum and am forced to close as so many of these things have to do at one time or another. I myself, have some pieces from collectors who have been forced to do just that. I also hope these things actually last that long! These are mere latex, or resin or silicone after all. Sadly, I'm sure quite a bit of it won't last that long. Interesting topic! THEN I want to be in one of those HUGE victorian mausoleums. You know, the kind in the Haunted Mansion movie? Great resting place to spend eternity.
James Lurgio
Nightmare Productions
A question I have discussed many times. I asked my son to take over the empire. He has told me that he could not care for a collection that large as well as I could. My daughter has no interest what so ever. I asked my son that he keep a couple of items that he could remember me by. Probably the Sideshow Dracula bust or the Bride Premuim format figure. I was hoping he would take the whole thing but that is not going to happen. I told the rest of the family to sell it off then and hopefully to another Universal Monster collector. I want someone to have it that it will give as much pleasure to as I got from it. Since my "death" from my heart attack a lot of questions like this came up. It was a reality check for me. I survived and have no plans to go yet. I am 52 years old and I am hoping for another 52. Aw what the heck, I am going to take it with me.
My son. If he wants to, he can sell it. Whatever he sees fit. Right now he is only 4, so hopefully I have a long ways to go, but I always figured I can pass it on to him. He can do whatever he sees fit, as long as it benefits him.
Quote from: Monster Bob on March 29, 2009, 07:45:18 AMUnfortunately for my wife, if there isn't some sort of collection deaccession, she'll be shoveling this crap into a dumpster. :D
That's the scenario I dread when it comes to anybody's collections.
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I don't have an answer. It's a difficult question. I have my grandfather's coin collection. I have no siblings or children. I've never been married. I just don't know what will become of the things I've collected over the years.
The DVD's probably won't be playable in the upcoming decades. We don't know what the collector's market will be in the future. My grandfather's Jim beam bottle collection wasn't worth much of anything when we sold it.
It's an unknown as to what will happen this my possessions when it's my time.
I have left a few letters detailing the high dollar items but doubt that they will bother doing much research.
I collect a bunch of things and most of it is old and many would say kit has historical value of some sort. For the most part, I couldn't care less what happens when I'm gone, as long as my letters, diaries etc. are burned.
However I have a collection for a film project that is collected as an archive and that will be donated to The Library of Congress.
I would probably advice collectors who sit on something that is truly unique and of interest to many to do the research and find a good archive or museum to take that collection or piece.
They will give you credit for your donation, not that it really matters, but it's always nice with respect.
Quote from: Mrs Frankenstein on October 09, 2024, 01:35:46 AMFor the most part, I couldn't care less what happens when I'm gone
I know nobody will want to mess around with all of my stuff, so I'm going to wait till the last minute and sell it all to dealers for whatever they want to give me for it. :)
I probably won't care when I'm dead. cl:)
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I would love to see all my toys on a toy museum or something like that but i wuld be happy too if they fall into the hands of someone who really apreciate them. Doing that or even sell them needs a lot or work tough and i hope theres plenty of time for that.
I have seen a toy museum gutted and sold off after the owner died. I ended up with the AHI Frank that she had and some other odds and ends. The local toy guy came to the daughter, put his arm around her shoulder and told her he would help her out and buy everything for $2000. She was offended, to say the least. This was a wealthy woman that spends that in one night at the casino. She contacted a friend and he bought everything pop culture related and left her the porcelain dolls that she valued much higher than anything else. Everyone was happy except the guy that lowballed her.