Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 18, 2017

I am still sorta surprised that I actually killed off one of my core sites ScoutingHotFinds.com in order to make this happen. But in Boy Scout terms I think we would call say that website was superceded. It was merged with another and it's name has been retired. Not the Hot Finds "brand" that I built in 2009 but the...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 16, 2017

Some days I get lucky and receive an offer to buy a small collection. Sometimes these don't pan out like the one I hit this week where after visiting the guy he said he was going to send it to his buddies auction house. But I did have a winner this week when a small package came in from Alaska....Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 14, 2017

Sitting down with the collection owner over lunch he lamented that in his area there used to be TORs all the time. In my mind it seems like there are more new shows popping up so maybe the tide is turning. I think this is because the Internet makes it so easy to send out information and more councils, lodges...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 11, 2017

My trip will definitely preclude me from getting another episode of the podcast out this week. It's possible this gentlemen will let me get some audio of his memories in the hobby and that can become a future episode. I've enjoyed using the podcast to interview guys that are true veterans in the hobby. I know it seems a bit...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 9, 2017

Another thing that will happen Tuesday is I'll be announcing in the Hot Finds the 2nd part of my website project updates. In an earlier video I explained how I reworked www.Santeeswapper.com to become my primary landing page for everything I've got going on. Phase 2 involves actually killing off one of my sites so the wake will be Tuesday...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 7, 2017

The big news in this issue is that yesterday I published Episode 80 of the podcast and this one features a Top 10 list from Nick Wolf. The Patch King has been to several Jamborees and offers his advice with a list of patch trading tips. It's mandatory listening for any first time Scout going this summer. Yesterday I had...Read More

SHF Radio #80: Patch Trading Tips For The 2017 National Jamboree with Nick Wolf

Nick Wolf, the Patch King, has a Top 10 list just for folks headed to the Jamboree. As a veteran trader of several Jambos now Nick has come up with ten important tips he shares with the listeners. I was able to sprinkle in some stories and commentary on Nick's list to give you some good examples. The bottom line...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 4, 2017

This is a pivot week for me. As I finish packing away the kitchen sink (and maybe the bathroom sink too) that I took to the Charlotte TOR I've got to turn my focus to new projects. That starts today with a major clean up effort in the patch cave and then getting some fresh auctions listed on eBay. Have...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter April 2, 2017

We tried a lot of things to get people to come out to the show. One of the things I'd like to do is get an email chain going or some other way that TOR organizers can share ideas and improve their events. I'm no expert but I have a skin in the game and I'm very sympathetic to the...Read More

SHF Radio #79: Why Collect Boy Scout Patches

In getting ready to host a Boy Scout memorabilia show (we like to call them Trade-O-Rees) I was asked by the troop committee chairman to come give a patch trading class to the Scouts of Troop 33. Episode 79 is the audio of that patch collecting talk that I gave to about two-dozen Scouts ranging from fresh Tenderfoots to high...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 31, 2017

You never quite know how tables are going to fit in a room until you actually set them up. Lucky for us instead of everything not fitting we discovered that at the corners we had a little extra space that allowed some adjustments to be made to the floor plan. Check out the video I made with time-lapse setting on...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 28, 2017

  The other activity I did with all the Cubs last night was a quick talk on the tradition of European style campfire blankets. If you want to get elementary school age kids excited about Scout patches the thought was let them put on some neat patch blankets and get their picture made. This snapshot is of one of our...Read More

Camp Book II Version 2 Published 2014 Features Every Boy Scout Camp

What is new in the 2014 edition? We have added over 2500 camp listings and added over 400 new Council names (including the second class councils that existed in the teens and 1920s. We have rewritten virtually all of the comments by including the camp locations where known and moved the comments to the camp data sections of the book...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 26, 2017

When I first got into this hobby and started online I was kinda in love with logos. That was the kid that grew up in the 1980s and went to college in the early 1990s. But today's world of social media has pushed me to come out from behind the logos. So in this new redesign of the website that...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 21, 2017

I got a very helpful PowerPoint from Tripp Clark for a class that he created with input from others. However, whereas his was a little more of the "how" to collect patches my talk leaned towards the "why". Facing an audience of Generation Z (did you you know that's what anyone born since 1996 is called) I tried to spark...Read More

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