I have been collecting, buying selling and trading razors for a little while now.
Thursday evening I received a phone call from a fellow in Florida who was friends with my dad saying I needed to be on watch for a box of razors he had just mailed out. He is the grounds manager of the senior community where my folks had retired to some 20 years ago.
A few months back when my Dad passed I was there for 10 days. It was then when we, (Doug and myself) got into a conversation about my collecting of razors.
He decided to put out a box at their community recreation center and asked everyone who wished to get rid of their old Gillettes to toss then in the box and mentioned they were for Rays son, (yep I am a Jr.). My dad was so well known and liked in this community because for so many years he helped so many people unconditionally.
Longer story short, he called and said he had shipped off a box of more than 100 razors and there were a couple more already in the collection box.
I can just imagine what I will find when they arrive and I open it up.
I will be cleaning some of them up and get them ready to ship out to newbies here on the forum free thanks to a reminder from David (TacoBell). The rest will be added to the other lot I have coming in.
The second lot I have coming in is a collection Doug started at the local Knights of Columbus that my Dad belonged to for 52 years and was a PGK, (Past Grand Knight 4th degree). There are many coming in from these folks as well. What I have decided to do is clean these up with the others, sell them off and donate all the proceeds to the chosen charities in my dads name. Most of these are local food pantries and women and children shelters where my dad volunteered a great deal of his time for so many years.
Ill post more when the time comes.
As I have said so many times in the past months, Thanks again dad for all that you have done.
I can only hope that some day I can measure up to be half the man he was.
Thursday evening I received a phone call from a fellow in Florida who was friends with my dad saying I needed to be on watch for a box of razors he had just mailed out. He is the grounds manager of the senior community where my folks had retired to some 20 years ago.
A few months back when my Dad passed I was there for 10 days. It was then when we, (Doug and myself) got into a conversation about my collecting of razors.
He decided to put out a box at their community recreation center and asked everyone who wished to get rid of their old Gillettes to toss then in the box and mentioned they were for Rays son, (yep I am a Jr.). My dad was so well known and liked in this community because for so many years he helped so many people unconditionally.
Longer story short, he called and said he had shipped off a box of more than 100 razors and there were a couple more already in the collection box.
I can just imagine what I will find when they arrive and I open it up.
I will be cleaning some of them up and get them ready to ship out to newbies here on the forum free thanks to a reminder from David (TacoBell). The rest will be added to the other lot I have coming in.
The second lot I have coming in is a collection Doug started at the local Knights of Columbus that my Dad belonged to for 52 years and was a PGK, (Past Grand Knight 4th degree). There are many coming in from these folks as well. What I have decided to do is clean these up with the others, sell them off and donate all the proceeds to the chosen charities in my dads name. Most of these are local food pantries and women and children shelters where my dad volunteered a great deal of his time for so many years.
Ill post more when the time comes.
As I have said so many times in the past months, Thanks again dad for all that you have done.
I can only hope that some day I can measure up to be half the man he was.
