Dispensation of your collection upon your demise?

[Sir_Boomme]

ha ha... I sent that Redrum picture to the official Redrum website and they posted it in their gallery... pretty funny.

http://www.redrum.com/gallery.php

2nd row...6th picture

[Randall Flagg]

Shannon, where will your collection go?

[Shannon]

Thank you for asking.

I originally said that if I died, my girlfriend Amber would be contacting David from Betts and enlisting his help with selling my collection.

But ... when I spoke to her about it, she said she would keep it. She's a book lover, a Stephen King fan, and she has the hoarding/collecting bug as well because when she moved in, her books almost matched my own! We collectively have eight book shelves full of books, lol.

So ... I guess she's getting it. Though, if we BOTH die in a horrible, fiery crash, it'll be on sale a week later at Betts.

[Randall Flagg]

Thank you for asking.

I originally said that if I died, my girlfriend Amber would be contacting David from Betts and enlisting his help with selling my collection.

But ... when I spoke to her about it, she said she would keep it. She's a book lover, a Stephen King fan, and she has the hoarding/collecting bug as well because when she moved in, her books almost matched my own! We collectively have eight book shelves full of books, lol.

So ... I guess she's getting it. Though, if we BOTH die in a horrible, fiery crash, it'll be on sale a week later at Betts.

Do you have anyone to taste the food she makes for you?

[Brice]

[Shannon]

llloooollll. I guess that should be next on my list of things to acquire, eh? A taster. lol

[Brice]

Shannon, I volunteer to oversee the dispensation of your SK collection

Spoiler:

to me

when your gone. Admittedly it's a bit of a burden, but that's what friends are for.

[Merlin1958]

Shannon can have everything after I'm gone, except what the kids want!!!

[Brice]

Hold on, Bill! I think he's on the phone with his lawyer seeing if that constitutes a legally binding contract.

[Shannon]

Yay! I like this game! And forty years from now (when I'm the new Bob, lol), when the new collectors of Stephen King ask me "Mr. Shannon, how did you get so many rare and unique items?" I'll say ... "Well kids, it started a long time ago when Bill died ..."

[Merlin1958]

Bastard, I'm still alive!!!!

[Merlin1958]

Bastard, I'm still alive!!!!

[Shannon]

All I'm sayin' is that maybe you should hire someone to taste all your food for you. Just an idea.

[Merlin1958]

I am feeling a little "under the weather"................. Oh Shit!!!!!!!! LOL

[Cook]

But if the both of you die.... Horribly?? (dead is dead isn't it ?)
Who's going to tell David?

Thank you for asking.

I originally said that if I died, my girlfriend Amber would be contacting David from Betts and enlisting his help with selling my collection.

But ... when I spoke to her about it, she said she would keep it. She's a book lover, a Stephen King fan, and she has the hoarding/collecting bug as well because when she moved in, her books almost matched my own! We collectively have eight book shelves full of books, lol.

So ... I guess she's getting it. Though, if we BOTH die in a horrible, fiery crash, it'll be on sale a week later at Betts.

[Shannon]

lol that's a good point. But honestly, if I died, and my stuff got shipped up and sent away, you probably wouldn't want it anyway. When us military people move, there is a group of people on every base, civilians mostly, that come and pack up your shit for you. Sounds nice, right? It's not nice. Unless you're there watching them (and sometimes, even when you are), your stuff will not arrive at the new destination in the same condition it left as. I've had two TVs break, I've had two boxes of DVDs stolen ("lost" they said, lol) ...

That's a funny story. I watched them pack the DVDs, and I have my DVDs in alphabetical order. I watched what they did when they packed, they were more or less in order. They sealed them up, put protection tape on them, and sent them on their way. When the boxes got to my new place, the DVDs were all out of order and a lot of the "more expensive" DVDs/boxed sets, Blu-Rays, etc. were gone. But the remaining boxes (minus the two "missing" boxes) were still sealed with protection tape. I was pissed, but I ended up getting $17.99 per DVD reimbursement from the military anyway, which is SO much more than I paid for them, lol. It was almost worth it.

But being reimbursed for DVDs is a lot easier than being reimbursed for a piece of original artwork or a one of a kind collectible. You can't really put a price on that, you know? So, whenever I move from here on out, I'll be the one packing up my things, thank you.

[Brice]

Shannon, it's okay! You've got enough worries when it's time for you to move. We'll go pack your King stuff for you.

[Shannon]

My response to the above is HERE.

[Brice]

I saw! Fear not though there is plenty of room in my collection for yours too.

[jemaher]

I am in the process of packing my collection of books and I have already filled 150 book boxes and still have one room to go! It may take me the rest of my life to unpack

[Brice]

...and then they'll get packed again.


Wow, 150 boxes. I thought I had a lot of books.

[jemaher]

my book hoarding has gone on for several decades and i shudder to think how the next of kin are going to dispose of them....I have well over 250 signed king books over 1000 signed Franklin and Easton press and several dozen signed Hemingway Faulkner Steinbeck and McCarthy. I probably have over 100 Bradbury first editions.....ugh... any sane executor would look at that and think...best cure is lighter fluid and a match

[Brice]

I'll be executor for say ten books of my choice.

Seriously, my roommates are english teachers and ALL of our books might be a third of that...maybe.

[jemaher]

about that... Id rather my "treasures " go to someone who would appreciate them rather than someone just looking to flip it for a buck

[Brice]

I think most of us feel the same about that.


Mine will probably mostly get sold, though I'm sure my brothers would keep some for sentimental reasons. Actually my older brother might keep them all even though he rarely reads a book. He just likes how they look on the shelves.