What do you do w/ everything?

[mile-ender]

O.k. I've been detecting for almost two years now and have amassed sooooo many things, I'm starting to wonder what the hey! I'm going to do with it. So, do you keep it? Sell it? Give it away to friends and museums? Make crafts from it? Any thoughts?
Some items off my the top of my head - keys, horseshoes, cartridges, tools, buttons, musket balls, knobs, nails, hardware, buckles, clasps, latches, pieces of everything, ect. ect. ect.
I mean, let's be realistic, you can't collect EVERYTHING

 

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[Cappy Z.]

This is an excellent question. I would also like to encourage people to show pictures of the piles.

Maybe we could make it a contest?

I think we could 'exchange' goodies....one man's treasure is another's junk visa verse.

I could clean out my mother in laws jewelry box...hehehe

 

[shaun7]

This is an excellent question. I would also like to encourage people to show pictures of the piles.

Maybe we could make it a contest?

you first, i'm a bit shy!

 

[NGE]

I am approaching 200 rolls of wheats. The silver gets sold for paying bills, as well as the gold. I have over 2,000 keys ( I guess I can scrap the brass ) I have many fascinating odds and ends, play money, bullets, cars and trucks, cap pistols, displays for shows, The clad gets used in everyday commerce, batteries, gas, tobbaco, etc, etc. I have been married for 31 years and have no kids or G'kids to hand this stuff down to, so I guess what I don't spend or sell, will end up in a garage or yard sale really cheap ......NGE BTW, I have been hunting since the early 60's

 

[AU24K]

I think that there should be a "Finds For Trade" forum. I collect things others would scrap(NGE and his keys) and some things I've found, I'd trade.
How 'bout it Marc?
Scott

 

[gmanlight]

This is a good question . There is a trade forum already so how about a
swap forum under 20 dollars or some thing

 

[UncleVinnys]

The coins go in separate containers by date and denomination.
The clad goes to the coin-star machine and gets recycled to buy more coils and equipment.
The toys, buttons, artifacts, and relics have their own drawer out in the garage.

 

[NGE]

That's the same way I store all the buttons and trinkets ........NGE

 

[BuckleBoy]

Recycling is a Beautiful thing. And 100 lbs of brass is quite a nice payday.

I keep the toe taps, suspender clips, harmonica reed plates (for now), plus the interesting items--as well as anything that needs to be ID'ed still.


-Buckles

 

[Montana Jim]

Display the best stuf in relic cases and get rid of the rest of it...

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

It all depends on what you like. Old coins and modern jewelry bore me so I sell them. All the coin holders and plastic sheets I now store buttons in. One binder has all of my flat buttons that have different back marks arranged in alphabetical order. Just like coins have varieties, so do my buttons. Treble Gilt with 3 stars. Treble Gilt with wreaths, etc. I have another binder with 4-holed buttons in the same manner. I have a binder filled with different rosettes. One filled with different suspender clips. Anything that fits in the cardboard coin holders can be nicely displayed this way and it kind of gives pleasure to go out and find an example that is not in the binder. With my relics it is nice to buy a bunch of small Tupperware containers and sort them into proper piles. Sleigh bells in one, buckles in another. Lead bale seals in one, musket balls in another. Each category can contain many little containers. Like harness buckles in one, fancy belt buckles in another. Large caliber musket balls in one, 3-ringed bullets in another. You get the picture. It looks like a pile of junk if it is all lumped into a big box and it becomes a rat's nest when you try and look for something.
Organizing your stuff makes a world of difference and brings a new zest for collecting the stuff that is found detecting.
I am after all, the number one collector of the stuff I find!
Dave.