What to do near a garage full of Sears woodworking tools? A friend of mine who lost her husband recently finds herself dealing...
A friend of mine who lost her husband recently finds herself dealing with a garage full of woodworking tools adjectives purchased from Sears over the course of many years. It would be great if she could get some money for them but but for, would like to donate but does not know who would want such items. SHe is not interested in have a garage sale with folks coming to her home. Any suggestions?
Find a vocational school or High School within the poorest section of town that offer's woodworking in its curriculum and donate the tools. Maybe your friend's husbands spirit and love of woodworking will find embodiement surrounded by one of the youngsters and her husband's passions will live on. She should do some research about the prices of what tools she have, then figure used price (usually going on for 1/2 depending on condition) Run an ad in her local word paper. I have some Craftsman table saw that have been used almost on a daily basis for 40 years. Some of the older ones are worth more than the newer ones. She could e-mail fireman492000(a)yahoo.com if I could be of assistance.
Perhaps you, your friend, or other inhabitants you may know would be willing to help out. If you could find someone who would be inclined to have the tools at their house or place of business, then exposure the tools would be great. Check local newspapers, eBay, on-line used tools for sale sites, etc. for pricing and contribute the tools as a "lot" - selling them all together - or individually. If she doesn't really need the money, she could donate the tools to a reputable charity or a trade arts school and be sure to get a receipt for the re-sale expediency of the tools and take the deduction of her taxes. Another theory might be to check your local yellow pages for a woodworking shop contained by your area and see if they might be interested in purchasing them. Do check out prices previously offering them to a wood working business to help in making the traffic fair to your friend. In my area we own a great on-line advertising site that people can index items of almost all types. Depending upon the amount you are asking most of the listings are free - but do offer upgrades to the ad for small fees to add photos and other things. Our local site is called:
Gainesville4sale.com.
I own no idea what other cities are available, but it probably wouldn't be difficult to find out.
How in the order of Habitat for Humanity! I second - ebay
I am going to guess that she knows more or less a local senior center. Go there and ask some of the gentlemen if they know someone who is interested. A lot of senior men do woodwork and would welcome the indiscriminate to get some tools. I got my father when he died and started doing woodwork for the first time. I have had seriously of enjoyment over the years with those tools. put on the market it on ebay but if she doesent want to deal with the hassle depending on where on earth she lives I'd be willing to take em rotten her hands. i cant pay no where on earth near they are worth but thought id tender i love woodworking i spend more time in my shop than i do my house lol email me if intrested walmart3p(a)yahoo.com
auction them off... return with what there worth
any good club , close to the scouts would really love them e-bay baby!
ps. my sympathy to your friend
Sears craftsman tools run for really good prices, almost new, at local auctions. They will market very well if advertise, because they are lifetime warranty, and are the same as new. Woodworker.com cause a complete list of what is there and where on earth she is and a way to contact her. As a last resort, craigs enumerate but that is like a garage Dutch auction.
Make Contact with your local Woodworkers Guild. Here is a
set market for woodworking equipment. If you have difficulty locating them, check beside local woodworker machine suppliers. Some of the guilds build and donate thousands of toys for kids. i would buy them i love doing that kind of stuff when i draw from time. it all would depend on where you live and if other associates to but if they are in good shape the want be unyielding to sell. just run surrounded by news paper.
She could sell the items (together or separately) on Craig's list and the buyer would come and pick up purchased items. She should master the art of woodworking.
Put them on ebay for money, as for donating, a church, boy scouts or any youth club in your area. Or run an announcement in the paper...someone would love a donation of this type. Check beside a local auction house. They can get the highest prices for her tools. Garage sale are for bargain hunters...and usually not for the seller making any worthy money.
sell it or use it Give them to me, I sure could use em!
Answers: Best choices... Donate them to a senior center that would hold a place to use them,or donate them to a local 4-H club, where the kids in the group would be capable of use them, and learn on them, and gain the skills from using such tools. If planning to sell them, do research on respectively individual tool, and set fair prices.Although most of the older equipment be built heavy and solid, modern safety features and engineering bring in some of the older tools undesirable and unsafe for use, but they may still hold value as parts machines or collector pieces.I be also going to suggest craigslist, but its not a good choice for an elderly lady living alone, newly to many wierdos out there presently.Ebay would be a good choice for the smaller, shippable items if you have the time to comfort her out, and, some of the old books and jigs and fixtures can bring decent money.