Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 22, 2018

Today is an organizing day where I hope to uncover some lost gems. I took a chance on a Facebook marketplace ad and this morning purchased 45 vegetable crates that are 12"x12"x20" plastic. These will fit nicely on my shelves which right now are an unholy mix of cardboard boxes and every other container I've ever known.   I have...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 20, 2018

Yesterday we got the staff together for the first time for a training and work weekend. It turned out the rain stayed away and we had beautiful weather. I got to work side-by-side with this bunch and I feel really good about the staff we have hired and our prospects for a great summer at Barstow.   Not every Scout...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 18, 2018

If you thought Boy Scouts had an opinion just wait! I posted a comment/question in a Girl Scout leader thread and so far it has 100+ responses! This will come no surprise to those of us who are married.   The basic premise of the thread was the predicament that my daughter will be in. Her Girl Scout troop is...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 15, 2018

I have been writing the Hot Finds for almost ten years now and today might be a first. I'm publishing this issue from the courthouse. Sounds like a good Johnny Cash song.   In 18 years of living in a small North Carolina town I was never called to serve on a jury. Now in my 2nd year of living...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 13, 2018

Yesterday was a smashing success. We nearly filled up a 24' truck with old electronics. I just don't know where all the people were coming from. Our get out the word campaign was pretty successful. In six hours of work we recycled countless tvs, computers, monitors, laptops, cords and even a couple of record players.   One of the neat...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 11, 2018

Tomorrow is the big day. My daughter will be running her ewaste drive tomorrow. I met the truck driver today and everything is in place. We even had someone from the church drop off a bunch of stuff at our house this morning. It's going to be nice and warm for our 6 hour shift collecting broken electronics to be...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 8, 2018

This weekend my daughter is rounding home when it comes to being a Cadette Girl Scout. For her Silver Award project she is hosting an electronic waste recycling drive at our church. She has been working on this for a couple months and we are looking forward to knocking it out Saturday.   The biggest issue now is just publicity....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 6, 2018

The weather was beautiful for our camping trip. It was overcast with the temps getting up close to 80. The threat of rain never materialized until about 3 AM this morning and even then it was just enough to knock the dust off everything. Our den played kickball, went on a hike, shot slingshots and caught some fish. We also...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 4, 2018

The danger I am falling into a little bit is trying to make sure everything is 100% the way I want it in the new space. I still have a few more days of work to get the shelving just right. The goal right now is to get the mounds of stuff off the floor and then over time I...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 1, 2018

I think they have taken an interesting approach to the logjam of cataloging the last 10 years of OA issues since the Blue Book effort wrapped up. It sounds like they have the architecture to grow the catalog out and add functions that would be very helpful to collectors including print on demand PDFs and potentially a needs list generator....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 29, 2018

I gambled this time and did not order all of the preorder items but instead figured I could trade for them. But with my early exit Saturday I didn't pick up any of that stuff. Looks like I need to put together a needs list and hunt a few things down. I took a panoramic picture Friday night of the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 27, 2018

Yesterday I got 1700+ mostly OA flaps listed for sale on my ScoutPatchHQ.com website. These are ones that a lister I hired has been working on for a few months and it's great for me as a seller to be able to push the button and put them up for sale. One of the things I love to do at...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 24, 2018

I got a small box of patches in the mail yesterday from Lancaster, PA. Most of these were late 1950s - early 1960s. I quickly posted them for sale on my store at fixed price with free shipping. The collection has some OA, camp patches and council patches. This is what I'm up against today. I'm going to the new...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 22, 2018

I would say my favorite thing about the museum was that there was a lot of text on the walls to tell the story. So you didn't have to flip through a book or go hunting for the key dates and events in the history of the councils and camps. It was typed up in letter size frames hanging on...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 20, 2018

Already the move has paid dividends. I found a patch that someone offered me $650 for (was MIA) and I've been able to put my hands on some things to take for patch trading this weekend at Camp Cherokee for the SR7B Conclave. I still have some shelving to build next week and a whole lot of sorting to do....Read More

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