Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 03, 2020

This weekend all kind of news broke very quickly on the summer plans. Of course many of you know that NOAC was canceled. But the silver lining could be that the BSA gets to test out the idea of holding a NOAC like event at the Summit. They are proposing to host an event called Momentum over the same dates...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 01, 2020

It's a bit ironic that this summer is being disputed as it's a big anniversary for our camp. We are celebrating 90 years this summer and even have a huge staff reunion planned. But there have been challenges over the history of the camp including moving when the army expanded Fort Jackson in preparations for WWII. So are motto will...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 28, 2020

I called another Camp Director in my area that is an old friend last night. We both have the same mindset struggling with being the cheerleader to open camp and also trying to figure out how you can bend to make things safer without spoiling the experience. Late last night I heard of another camp in the Carolinas that has...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 26, 2020

I am kind of a list person and so these unsorted/organized projects are everywhere in my warehouse. To tackle that I mounted a large white board with magnets and color coded index cards this week. But I'm in a little bit of a dilemma about how to organize the project board. If any of you have suggestions email them over!...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 24, 2020

I guess I am going to jump on eBays carrot. They have extended their offer of 50k free listings to store sellers through July. This gives me the perfect window to follow the strategy I described Tuesday. That means growing my smaller stores to move them towards 5k items which would then make sense to upgrade them to anchor stores....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 21, 2020

Some of you might find this interesting. Yesterday I did some eBay algebra. They opened the gates this month and gave store sellers 50k free listings. So the nice thing for me is I consistently run over the "free" listings my store subscriptions provide. So the math puzzle is what is the optimal number of listings compared to the hit...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 19, 2020

One long overdue patch project I've started is cleaning up my stores. Because of the way I list patches I don't start off with items having assigned categories in the store. Yesterday when I looked at OApatch I saw that about 25% of the items were listed in the "other" category. So after some house cleaning I've cut that in...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 17, 2020

The call regarding summer camps was very helpful and supportive. I got some great ideas about how to engage my summer camp staff online and even begin doing some required training. The outlook for National Camp School is more challenging but they are offering some courses and also being rigidly flexible regarding waivers. As for the million dollar question, "will...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 12, 2020

I really wish I had taken some pictures of the sorting job that my son and I tackled Friday. It was a sight with 30+ plastic containers labeled with every letter in the alphabet (you gotta do 2 for some letters like C, G, M, and S). We sorted 9 boxes of SAPs into these in total probably 1500-1800 patches....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 14, 2020

Yesterday my son finished a two day project to sort JSPs by year. This is only a small portion of the overall project but you can see the progress. The next step is to take each box and organize by council name and combine dupes. This is a merger of all the loose JSPs I've had from trading over the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 10, 2020

This will be live on Facebook on my page and in the Scout Patch Collectors. Make sure you are registered (1 time only required) on my website and enable the system to send you messages so you can comment sold. As a refresher during the sale I will present items from a big OA collection one at a time and...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 07, 2020

Yesterday while sorting three boxes that were labeled "collection" I came across these two. Now for 99.9% of you this is not cause for excitement. But for my fellow lodge brother Nathan Kohler these two obscure event patches were 2/3 of his final lodge needs. I mailed both patches to him after working out a quick deal. He has agreed...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 29, 2020

Back in 2013 I interviewed Deryl for my podcast Scouting Hot Finds Radio. That became a 2-part series that told the history of his Scouting Collectors Society and the Y2K TOR. This morning I built a post on my website that has both of those episodes served up and ready for you to listen to. How strange that we are...Read More

Remembering The Original Online TOR

With all the Corona crap affecting the country I recently saw on Facebook where John Pleasants was proposing to host an online video zoom to facilitate some virtual trades and a sense of connection. It's a great idea and I may even try and take part if my family schedule allows.   But it also got me thinking about my...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 03, 2020

I have not been able to really display my collection since 2014. That was the year that while hosting the Dixie Fellowship I worked with Darrin Thomas (with help from Russell Smart) to put together a really impressive weekend museum at camp for the conclave. I spent $1k on frames and untold hours. My video on this project is probably...Read More

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