Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 10, 2023

  This weekend I'll be attending the first lodge event for Muscogee 116. The two predecessor lodges had already celebrated 80th anniversaries so it will be interesting to see these two proud families come together. This first one up is an Inductions weekend with some conclave prep built into the schedule as well.   On the patch front, I did...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 7, 2023

  Yesterday I finished my agonizing sort of modern era merit badges. I now have a few thousand merit badges sorted by title, era, and condition. This week one of my helpers will photograph everything and soon thereafter I will get them up on my Shopify Store. These are the designs still used by the BSA with plastic backing so...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 5, 2023

  Last night I brought back from the dead an old eBay account that came with buying Best Hobby Pages. Joe started it back in 2009 but didn't use it too much (feedback of 138). I have had access to it for years but on a whim last night I converted everything over to my information and listed my 1st...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 3, 2023

  My project for the last two days (YouTube Video) has been very satisfying although I probably couldn't pay most of you to suffer through this sort. I am taking thousands of modern era plastic backed merit badges and getting them listed online. My main goal is to help Scout troop's be thrifty by recycling these patches. I'm confirming condition,...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter – February 17

I've missed some issues lately which is very uncharacteristic. I've been putting out the newsletter since January of 2009 (or is it 2010?) and have not missed many. This week I have been keeping my head down working diligently on a listing project. One of my goals is to get as much of my inventory listed as possible so that's...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Live #11: How To Identify and Sort Your Boy Scout Rank Patches

Have you ever looked at your Boy Scout collection and struggled to figure out what the small differences among common rank and position patches mean? In this episode of the show we go into a deep dive on how to identify and sort your BSA rank patches using the leading reference books in the hobby. It's a fun rabbit hold...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Live #10: Building A Traveling Scout Museum

This episode is packed with knowledge and an awesome unboxing. Ryan Losonsky returns for the final installment in my interview with him. This time we are talking about nuts and bolts....literally! Ryan has created a 90+ panel traveling Scout museum and in this video we are going to talk shop. The big unboxing for this week is a truly live...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Live #9: 1929 World Jamboree Collection Unboxing

While I was staffing Winter Camp I was contacted by a woman in Texas named Sallye who wanted to know if i was interested in her father's Scouting memorabilia. He was born in 1912 and attended the 1929 World Scout Jamboree in London. Of course was my answer! I just picked up her package from the box yesterday and so...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 6, 2023

  This week I got back in the rhythm of publishing a weekly episode of Scouting Hot Finds Live. This week it was an unboxing of a small collection from a Scout who attended the 1929 World Jamboree. This guy grew up in the Norwela Council of Louisiana and was one of four boys from the council to attend that...Read More

Boy Scout Collection Unboxing St. Louis Eagle Scout 1964 National Scout Jamboree

I bought this collection from a gentleman who at age 72 realized that nobody in his family was really interested in his old Scouting memorabilia.  Luckily we connected and I was able to help him get these pieces recycled back into the hands of a collector.  He got his Eagle in 1963 in a troop in University City which is...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 27, 2022

  A few months ago when we planned this trip to Naples FL we didn't know that it would allow us to escape an "arctic bomb cyclone". I have never seen it get down to 10 degrees in Charlotte so we were glad to head south. So for a few days we get to wear shorts and visit the beach....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 25, 2022

  I will have to give my wife kuddos for the holiday traditions she has spun up in our family. We really stretch out Christmas morning with stockings, eating, more presents and even fresh baked cinnamon buns delivered at the right time. In the coming hours my in-laws will depart and then it will be ready for some packing of...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 23, 2022

  One of the nice things about buying and selling on eBay is that you don't have to worry about the bomb cyclone (although I did lose power this AM) it is always open. Even with the holidays here, there are plenty of auctions to take a look at.   Like many of you we are hosting family for the...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 20, 2022

  I returned last night from three nights at Winter Camp. Many councils are running these cold weather camping merit badge colleges at camp now-a-days. I agreed to teach one of the Citizenships which means you are bound to have plenty of takers. But with the end of the year near like many of you I'm focused on getting ready...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 18, 2022

  This weekend I've been helping at our council's Winter Camp by teaching Cit in the World merit badge. The format has me doing the entire badge in 1 day from 8:30 - 5:30 which is a marathon. But yesterday was my rookie season and allowed me to work out the kinks in my lesson plan and presentation. Today I've...Read More

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