Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 21, 2017

It's not very often that as an eBay seller you come across things that never recorded a sale all those years that John Pannell was tracking things on his OA images website. Not only did I hit upon some of that with a collection I bought this week but I also picked up a chapter activity patch that was never...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 19, 2017

What was interesting about this collection is that it was clearly picked by somebody prior to me getting a call from the family. Even some of the children were surprised at what was left. North Carolina is a small state when it comes to Boy Scout patches so I probably know the collector who got into it and cleaned out...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 16, 2017

Can you keep a secret? The collection included over 300 mugs. That's grounds for divorce so I got smart and had the guy meet me in the parking lot of my storage unit in Charlotte. After the deal was done the books, coffee mugs and Boy's Life magazines went into the storage unit (hopefully never to be seen by my...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 14, 2017

Have you ever heard the phrase will work for patches? I have a rising freshman college student that wants a bunch of cloth from me for his collection but is low on cash. We are going to talk in a couple of weeks about him helping me with eBay listing remotely to see if we can really see if it's...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 12, 2017

This week I did an epic sort of all my dupes from my home lodge in anticipation of getting our new patch guide published at the end of the month. Yesterday I got about 70 listings made for the flaps and other issues from the lodge and threw them up on eBay. I got the most interesting message from a...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 9, 2017

Have you ever had three Scouting weekends in a row and on the other side of that just peace and quiet? Being an active leader cuts into my TOR travels. I would love to hit Alabama next weekend and Chicago at the end of the month but I think my family needs some calm. Next week should be fun. I'm...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 7, 2017

This trip we had 20 Juniors and Cadettes along with a dozen adults. Saturday was the monster day with a dolphin cruise (turned out great) and the night cap was a ghost tour of Savannah that the girls ate up. Not exactly the same itinerary as perhaps the Boy Scouts would have chosen but it was fun being a tourist...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 5, 2017

Can you sell an entire collection in one swing using a Facebook album? I've been playing with different strategies this week and one I'm trying out is selling a big Kentucky Boy Scout collection as a whole piece. There are 54 pictures in the album and over 200 items in the collection. I'm taking offers so let me know if...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 2, 2017

So yesterday I dumped out a large Rubbermaid tote full of stuff that hasn't seen daylight since I moved last summer. I did a quick sort and started making scans of stuff that I could then throw up on the Facebook group. At the end of the project I had about 100 scans ready to go. Now mind you this...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 30, 2017

The good thing about Sunday morning's is that on eBay is the highlight reel. Often times the best listings in the category close on Sunday. The beautiful early jacket with merit badges on the sleeve is my favorite in this block. It's conclave season for many OA sections and that means it's all trickling onto eBay. I missed out on...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 28, 2017

All of this hopefully plants a seed that a year from now she can be making the leap to joining a Venturing Crew. We won't give up on Girl Scouts but since her troop only meets every other week already it's not all consuming. There are some crews in Charlotte and in a perfect world we could plug into an...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 25, 2017

Pack 33 has a camping trip this weekend at Camp Bud Shiele up in the piedmont of North Carolina. it's also the same weekend as the SR5 Dixie Fellowship hosted by Muscogee Lodge at Camp Barstow. For a while I was going to try and split the difference but my conscious got the better of me and on Friday I'll...Read More

Boy Scout Blind Patch Trade Explained

At first glance the idea of a blind trade sounds like an oxymoron. How can you trade patches blind? No offense to those that have problems with their vision. But yes in the Boy Scout hobby we do have blind trades and they do work. In this video I explain how these are organized and why you might consider participating....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 23, 2017

The patch trading report for the weekend reveals two universal truths that we all will do to remember. Remember to order your patches early is the first one. Nayawin Rar Lodge 296 didn't and the probably 1,000+ flaps they made for the event to trade and collect won't arrive until after everybody is home from the event. The poor guys...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 14, 2017

In your council/lodge is there a 18 year old eager beaver collector? In mine his name is Nathan Kohler and at the beginning of the week I had the good sense to recognize his talents and asked him to help me finish updating our lodge patch guide that I last did in 2010. Every day this week he has challenged...Read More

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