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Wayne, I can certainly sympathize. I suspect my accumulations would make you look like a minimalist amateur however. But, as my wife says, it's self inflicted.
I make a somewhat interesting business out of buying estates, closeouts, bankruptcies, etc.
I get some astoundingly big estates. I'm working on one now that increased the rifles in my safe by 140+. There are 4 storage units (10x30 ft) full, much of it guns, ammo and knives. I have a max payload full size Ford pickup. I filled it to the sagging/running uphill weight limit with ammo, and barely touched the pile. The estate executor says there's several times that many guns in one of the other storage units.
The one thing I do well is get rid of lower end stuff first. I sell the odd lots, the incomplete bullet boxes, the low end guns that I don't want off first. My objective is if I die unexpectedly, the remaining stuff will be easier to auction off by my wife/kids. A lot of the things I have on ebay continuously is stuff like in the auction you referenced.
Sometimes I look at the entire mess and think "I wish I could just make this disappear, all at once, immediately, and have the money instead". Keep about 10 rifles, 6 handguns, and molds and reloading stuff for them, along with minimal shooting equipment.
But, I then immediately realize that is exactly how I got in this situation. I'm the magic wand, that makes all of it disappear, all at once, and get replaced by money. It's an incredible relief to many of the executors of the estates. But, transfers that burden to my shoulders. As my wife says, self inflicted.
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