Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 18, 2020

    I read this week about the launch by another collector of an eBay alternative called BoyScoutAuctions.com. As perhaps the self named king of eBay alternatives over the last decade I can say good luck as I've been down that road. For those of you that remember listityourselfauctions.com to any number of other attempts I've made to go around...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 02 2020

  In our troop we use Discord at kinda a troop message board. One of the Scouts set it up and it seems to be a platform that the Scout use to just chill. But I guess I can see some of the same elements that have made the Scout Patch Collectors grow to over 17k people. Ironically I got...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 06, 2020

  Today I will be getting fresh inventory up on eBay. Over the last few weeks I've got several boxes of OA, Jamboree etc scanned and ready to go. As one person commented on Facebook today, "you have to treat it like a job" so I will be punching the clock and listing all day.   Do you have this...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 13, 2020

  Well just to fill you in it was like a miracle. With the remnants of Delta drenching the east coast on Sunday about 2 hours before our Open House started the clouds parted and we had blue skies during the entire 4-hour event. Later that night on my back to Charlotte there was a tornado watch. So literally you...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter October 04, 2020

    There is a nice community among the camp directors and professional Scouters who are in the camp game. I got to catch up with some of them this weekend. A few guys have been working at the same camps for years and years. This will be my 4th at Camp Barstow. Yes I count 2020 as one of...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 27, 2020

  I spoke with Russell Smart this week about some projects he has been working on. One of which was the successful summer that the Summit had in camping more Scouts and units than they ever had previously. They did so without any incidents of COVID which is a testament to their procedures and staff. He has been doing a...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 25, 2020

  This week I have really thrown myself back into my camp director role. We have a small team editing the leaders guide and I've been making updates to the camp website. All this is leading up to a very busy few weeks in October of recruiting troops to come to Camp Barstow in 2021.   The first weekend in...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 22, 2020

    Last night at our Webelos den meeting I was trying to show the boys what Scout Spirit looked like. So we sang the classic camp song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean". Only after each verse I asked Scouts how we could add a motion. Pretty soon on the word "ocean" we were spinning around and on the...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 20, 2020

  One way you can stay active in the hobby during COVID is logging into the Scout Patch Collectors Facebook Group. With over 16k thousand members this is the most active group on the platform. I randomly posted some things for sale as I was leaving work Friday. As of last night almost all of those items are now sold...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 13, 2020

    This morning I published an article on www.CarolinaOA.com that was written by Josh Ammons of Atta Kulla Kulla lodge. Josh sent me an email offering to help share some knowledge about the issues of his lodge for the site. He penned the article and shared it with me in a MS Word file. I want to thank Josh...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 15, 2020

    This group also included about 40 binders that were the 3" D-ring design. So what I did was post on eBay that they were for sale sy $5 each. Free pickup in CLT or a TOR that I would be attending. Otherwise, I would give a shipping quote and just charge that exact amount. This goes back to...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 11, 2020

  I heard the idea floated of a virtual TOR. This might sound a little crazy except basically it was done 20 years ago by Deryl Radder. Some of you might remember that I interviewed him before he passed on my podcast. We talked about his Y2K TOR which took place over the New Year in 2000. Certainly these days...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 8, 2020

  This weekend on Facebook there were some posts sharing images of the 2010 museum that Sam Fairchild organized at the Centennial Jamboree. The posts led to discussions about needs, tough issues and memories of the event. This reminded me that I need to do devote some time to my displays which has been a very hot and cold project....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 6, 2020

  On January 21, 2019 I published an episode of my Scouting Hot Finds Radio podcast featuring an interview for John Athayde who is the primary driver behind the project. The show notes from that episode include some of the interesting origins and details of the project. What I really like is that reminiscent of the Blue Book effort this...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter September 4, 2020

This week I leveraged Facebook to try and catch up on the last 8 years of camp patches from my home camp. It looks like I last displayed my collection at the 2012 lodge Winter Banquet. One of my struggles was just finding out what has been issued. I think with the help of some of the active Scouters and...Read More

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