have any of you guys planned what you will do with your collections if your no longer living??

[markanthony5]

I love these three items really do,these are my baby's and i aint ever parting with them and when i do die i want a fellow collector to have them for free cause i want them to be loved and not end up in a junky store some place.

We never really own anything i think were just simply the custodians of these machines and to be honest will out last most of us even if your only 20 something lol

So for me i have to make sure they go to a go home when im done, ive been wondering about this for a little while now cause i cant stand the idea of them getting abused if im not around and i dont want them split up after all their sister uprights and baby 100 lol

Oh and my electrolux z65 will need a to go to a nice home too i want a z25 and a hoover 725 next but that has to be it for my collection cause i aint got the room

Do any of you guys and girls wonder what you will do with your collections if something happened to you? I thinks its something we should all think of to ensure the futures of our collections

I guess theirs always the options of leaving to a museum but then often spend a lot of time not on display and in a basement never ever getting used at all.

HMMM a dilemma

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNwWGNS6o8

 

[marks_here]

I donated half my collection

When my partner suddenly passed away in Jan. I had no time to do anything really, I had to get out of the house. I took what I could & put into storage, but I think about that a lot & have come up with nothing. So most likely when I pass whatever is here will be auctioned off.

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I hope VacuumLand is still around after my passing so VL members or other vacuum collectors can have any or all of my vacuums</span>

 

[suckolux]

This topic is not new here

 

[cb123]

I do plan to have all mine pickled with me in Russian vodka...not the cheap kind, but the gooooood kind!

 

[compactc9guy]

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I have thought about that a few times and i want my famaly to have my vacuum and use them and also keep them in good condition my legacy to them if you will .I also collect die cast cars same for that keep it in the family so they can say to my kids ur dad had this one ect . Thats just my tougth

 

[suckolux]

Both of my parents were the youngest and I am their youngest, single and leaning on 60 pretty close, so....

 

[cb123]

....are you can always become famous and they will turn your house with all your worldly belongings into a shrine....Now that would be a memorial, a tabernacle to THE KIRBY! 


 


Just a thought.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

I've left instructions that they should be offered to the then current members of this site or it's successor unless one of my nieces has developed an interest - or their future spouses/partners.

 

[turbo500]

I have a lot of friends who also collectors that I've known for years now, mostly through meeting on here or other related sites.

I have a designated friend who will distribute the collection out to other collector friends, based on what we know our era's of interest are.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I have a few promised to people.

I have VERY specific instructions for my nephew of how to liquidate them, as he will have NO CLUE what they are, and how important/valuable they are. there are instructions to call my close friend, Tom Anderson. If I go before he does, he gets first choice. the rest, I'm not so sure, yet. I had to change that will last year.
I actually have a friend who was asking about other items in the house.
I informed him that I was in very good health and didn't plan on dying anytime soon. Somewhere in there was a compliment that he likes my stuff. Others, however, would only want things to turn right around and give to people whom I wouldn't want things to end up with.
Dare I ask. lol anyone want anything? I asked that, as a joke. Some friends thought that was an invitation to "go shopping through my house"!

 

[paul]

Another idea would be to donate them to the Vacuum Museum in Missouri and/or for a collection of another possible Vacuum Cleaner Museum.

Actually, it would be nice to have several branches of the Vacuum Cleaner Museum some day to make its collection more easily accessible. They could be adjacent to vacuum cleaner stores similar to how the Vacuum Museum is adjacent to Tacony Corp.

 

[dysonman1]

If Tacony Corporation is still here, and the Museum is still in existence, I plan on having my collection sold to the Company so they can maintain the Museum the way it is: a celebration of ALL brands of vacuum cleaners. The only problem for the company would be in finding a knowledgeable Curator. I know it's a Dream Job for many of my vachead friends.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Curators come and go, this is true.

I dated one. I worked for another. I know 2. I've discovered, and most of us have, that we ALL are replaceable. Not always by someone better OR even as good, but, when we leave, someone will always be available to take over our spot. So, that would never be a problem.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Then, there is what is called an

'Operations Coordinator". The reason being: to be a true CURATOR, you must hold a college degree in museum studies. To truly be called a CURATOR, one MUST have a degree. It's a simple fact. I knew someone from The Garden State who considered himself a curator, along w/ his friend 'Judith". Well, she found later, that she didn't have a leg to stand on. Of course, Judith was an absolute car crash.