Re: How do widows dispose of tractors in your Club

Posted by NC Wayne on July 17, 2006 at 21:25:11 from (152.163.100.74):

In Reply to: How do widows dispose of tractors in your Club ?? posted by Sam F. on July 17, 2006 at 20:58:39:

Not married and don't collect tractors, just work on them. That said wether the wife is a tractor "nut" like her husband or not she should still take at least enough interest in her husbands hobby to know how much the machines mean to him and at least have some idea as to a fair value of each piece. Being her husbands machines they may or may not have sentimental value to her, just depends on how interested she was in the first place I guess. Wether she sees them as a part of him and his life or simply a waste of money, either way, I still say she should have at least some idea of their monetary value. Even if he has to make a list of each machine and it's value for her, she needs to know. If it was my wife left behind, with me gone, I'd want her to know how much each piece was worth because every little bit would be more for her to use to get on with her life once I was gone. I have known several older couples over the years where the husband passed and the wife was left in a position or selling off his machines, their property, etc. The only ones that didn't wind up getting "cheated" in the end were the ones that had taken the time when he was alive to go over their possessions to where each knew what was what, or at some point one of the children stepped in and took charge of doing things to make sure their Mom didn't get cheated.
In the end though no item is worth more than a person is asking for it or than someone else will offer for it. If your buying and the person your buying from has no clue, then it's up to you to be honest and tell them. If they know and don't care then you were honest and did your part. If after all that both parties are happy with the sell then nobody was cheated......In the grand scheme of things it's only money and as much as we all want it we can't take it with us.........Just my .02

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