Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 18, 2016

I don't usually lead off the newsletter mentioning a sale in my eBay store but this one is pretty unique. I'm a bit stingy on my OA and so they rarely go on sale. I've looked back and I don't think I've ever gone this deep. For the rest of the weekend you can get 30% off on over 2,000...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 15, 2016

Further down in today's newsletter you will find my latest unboxing video. This one is a whopper featuring me spilling open 28 pounds of cloth that was all stuffed into one very large priority mail box. There are about 2,000 patches in that box including OA, shoulder patches and Jamboree. I'm going to help a Troop market the sale of...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 13, 2016

The CFCHA benefited greatly from having steady leadership and good relationships that allowed the association to have a formal partnership with the Council Executive Board. When a new training center was being constructed at camp a few years back they secured some terrific display areas and office space to run the show. This weekend they hosted a lodge chief reunion...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 11, 2016

This weekend I'm taking the Girl Scouts on a day trip to Camp Graham near Henderson, NC. We are doing an activity focused around teaching them an outdoor skill. This one just happens to be cooking! Our council has an emphasis this year on trying to teach girls more of the important camping skills and we are ready to go....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 8, 2016

It might end before some of you can click on it but I just love the Kit Karson Kit below in the box. I have one in my collection but not with the box. This one has been used and the box is not in the greatest of shape but it is still over $200 and going. The OA Activity...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 6, 2016

There are some golden oldies in this box. Any time this block features multiple items from that are preWWII that is always a good sign. So far 2016 is a quiet year for issuing new OA patches. I have heard rumor that some lodges are going to put out patches for the programs being offered this summer at the Summit....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 4, 2016

Thursday I'm putting up a display at my district banquet with Scouting memorabilia to help promote the Charlotte TOR. The question now is what to put up? I've got a pretty good local lodge collection but outside of OA what appeals to your typical Scouter? Would this be a good year to mount a Jamboree display with paper and patches...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 4, 2016

I think blind trades are helpful because many of us are geographically in a bubble when it comes to trading. In a typical year for example I'm only going to go to a few Scouting events and or TORs in maybe a 2-3 state region. So if I have duplicate patches from my OA lodge chances are people in my...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 1, 2016

Recently I asked for advice on how to make displays useful when showing Scouts. Tracy Mesler responded back with sage advice. "Take a lead from the NOAC museums the last two times. Hold text down to short-speak. Headlines and brief captions. To expedite the lines at NOAC, Bill rewrote every text block holding virtually everything to under 140 words. Many...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 28, 2016

For a long time now I've known this day was coming and I was not as prepared as I should have been. I have been putting together my classic Boy Scout stuff in a portfolio specifically so I could display it on a table top and show it to a Scout at an event (or in this case an interview)....Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 26, 2016

The discussion was about Patch-L and the SPC Facebook Group. For those that don't know Patch-L is what you might call a list serve (it's now a Google product) whereby you can send an email that goes to everyone that is subscribed to receive messages. The Facebook Group was set up in 2012 as a place for online patch collectors...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 23, 2016

My friend Brad England just wrapped up a blind trade with SAPs. I think in the end he is ending up with about 1,000 issues that he is going to shuffle around and make sure everybody gets a different piece in return. I can't imagine that on this go around I'll get that many patches but the math works so...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 21, 2016

My home camp has been bootstrapping it the last few years with an all volunteer camp staff to keep down costs. This model has actually worked well considering we run just three weeks of camp. One of our volunteers started a GoFundMe campain yesterday to raise $26k in order to purchase new tents, flies and platforms for the camp. In...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 19, 2016

The funny thing about middle school kids is that they are very social media savvy. Several have subscribed to my YouTube channel and yesterday some of my 7th graders tried to convince me to show them a Santeeswapper video. I declined of course but they did say the videos were pretty good. I don't think that Threadheads fits into our...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 16, 2016

I heard from a reader that he is going to be teaching a Scouting memorabilia class at an upcoming council event. I really think that with Scouts starting to sign up for the 2017 Jamboree this is the right time to be reaching out to the next generation of collectors. Yes they might only be interested in patches that have...Read More

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