Some days, a realization of my mortality weighs on me.   

I just went down and looked for some unertl bases for someone.  I rarely use these bases, but I have a pretty extensive stock of them, unsorted and unknown.   

At the rate I go through these, I'm going to have to live to 500 years old to use them up.  Plus, I end up acquiring more in with other things I buy than I sell, so the supply increases, not decreases.

Although there's substantial value to these, there's no easy way to sort, characterize and sell these that I know of.  On the other hand, if you're needing some, they're hard to find.  What in the world should I do with them, other than putting them in with the scrap metal?

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I've had a propensity for buying odd lots of parts of this nature. It soothes my soul in a weird sort of way. "Why do you own so much "X" brass, you'll never use it all." "Well, er, I don't know..."

Maybe it feeds my subconscious certainty that yes, I will live long enough to use the stuff.

If bucks weren't a bit tight right now I would call you and make a deal on all the bases, just because.

Reminds me of the old Jiminy Cricket ditty, "I'm gonna live to be 103 yessiree, because I'm no fool."

And when he is done sorting them send him up here to sort through the 2 large boxes of shooting trophies I bought 7 years ago.

They don't take up much room, so they're low priority for now.  I'll probably sort and categorize them, and put them on ebay at some point.  My rifle actions, high wall parts, rolling block parts and chamber reamers are in a similar limbo at the moment.  Lot of value, not much space, so they sit.

Unfortunately, at the same time as I realize that I don't need them, I also value the time more than the money they bring, but not really wanting to pass them on to another old guy for a low price so he can hoard them like I am. With that in mind, it's easy to see how these things end up in massive estates.   

I have a lot more larger stuff that I'm working on now; I took about 120 boxes of collectible ammo to Tulsa, tried to sell it for $3000 as a lot, no takers, have been moving it out the door steadily at $70 to $125 a box for the past few days.  Probably end up close to $10K when all done. It just takes the time to sort, list and ship to get this stuff gone.   

I need to do a dozen or so rifles, to get rack space to put my user rifles in the safe.  Listed and sold the stuff that just sat at Tulsa easily online, that's at least easy to do.

And, steadily weeding down my shop equipment to what I actually use regularly.   

Owning stuff ends up owning you at some point.