This is something I definitely don’t want to happen.
BTW, Thanks for the great post, many of your thoughts echo my own, and many more have given me inspiration moving forward.
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I’ve thought about downsizing my collection.
I know it’s hoarder level. But I love looking at my collection, playing different ones, knowing I have a ton of choices.
It will 100% be my dads weird collection that goes into a box unless I get rid of it first hahaha
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Havent really thought about it for my Yoyos. It seems my kids really know my collection.
I think I would do something like… They Flip a coin. Winner gets first pick. Loser then picks 2. Then they 1 for 1 till they get what they want. God willing their kids get them.
When it comes to my Straight Razors, this has been well thought out and planned. I have a Rite in the Rain Journal that I have hand written the history I know for each Razor and the custom Brushes; My Great Grandfather(s). Little bits about them. The 1852 Razor my fiance bought, had restored and gifted me on our wedding day (Their Mother).
At the end of this journal is a chain of custody. Whoever accepts the the collection signs when received and when handed off.
My hope is that it will be Multi-Generational.
Have fun.
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So I would rather not think about that because I have a pretty severe fear of death. But I also have anxiety so it’s something I do think about. And my thoughts said “Please give me a good 65 extra years of life” and “I’d want to entrust someone with them. Someone who can give them to players who are down on their luck, going through a hard time or just need someone to reach out. Said person can play them of course, but must send them to the folks who could use a little something at the end of the day.” Quietly of course. Kinda randomly. Just picking up on cues and using their intuition to brighten up some dark days.
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I will be gone and my wife will probably dump em in a box to goodwill once my kids snd siblings take a few they like.
Idk it’s just stuff. Can’t take it with me snd if my family has no attachment forcing it on them isn’t worth it. I hope some collector gets some really cool finds one day when I’m long gone.
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I’m gonna use my 1550+ yo-yos to build a stairway to Heaven.
I was planning a Viking funeral… but a representative for Valhalla told me I’m ineligible because I’m not in the Union of Seafaring Marauders.
I was thinking of giving them away when I die… but that plan was dashed when I realized I’d have to be alive to orchestrate that option.
I thought about selling them all in exchange for Crypto currency, but where I hope to be going, they only accept: Cloud Cash and Apple Pay.
Then… all of a sudden, I had an epiphany. It dawned on me that I may never die. And, if I ever become the King of my Village and I could award yo-yos to the Township for Deeds well Done.
Decisions, decisions….
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I want them to go to my yoyofriends. All except one for my daughter and one for my son, for a keepsake. This is assuming neither one of my kids gets back into yoyoing, if they do, then I’ll give them all my yoyos.
I only have like 8. This time last year I had 20, 16 of which were an amazing General yo collection. It’s very possible that by the time I die, all I have is a good metal responsive, unresponsive, wooden unresponsive, wooden fixed axle, plastic unresponsive, and a pair of loopers. That’s what I feel would cover any style of play I’d be into. Or I could have a yoyodoc collection by then, who knows? I don’t really get attached to material things on earth, I have everything I need within. So yeah, hand them off to friends before I die, I’d want them to be used and abused.
If I die in some horrific accident, and this post is somehow found, give a yoyo to everyone that likes my post here, assuming I have enough.
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Wait let me change my answer.
What I meant to say is I’m keeping track and it all goes to whomever I have the best market experience with.
Which of you shall we say doth love us BST?
That we our largest bounty may extend
Where nature doth with merit challenge.
-King Lear if I’m remembering right.
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my friends and family don’t yoyo so no point in leaving these to them… i’d rather they go to a museum or to people that will appreciate and play them until they become dust…
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What about smelting them back down and using them as a cremation urn
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I don’t love that idea. My remains would be fine in a bag in a cardboard box or just scattered in some garden or something. Really what to do with me is up to the folks that remain once I’m gone. I’m of the mindset my dad had when I go just dump me off in a ditch somewhere and let the earth take me back. No need for anything fancy.
Then again my dads remains sit on my mantle in a birch box I made. I more or less made a tissue box holder without the hole at the top and added a name plate but works as intended and no one’s the wiser.
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My other plan is to be turned into a blu-ray CD of Space Jam so take your pick
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What if I had them turn ME into yoyos??? 
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Currently I’m trying to sell off the lot…
I’ve given some to my grand kids but they don’t seem all that interested. So I’m guessing what’s left will go to a garage sale or the local thrift store as an oddity.
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I was actually thinking about something like this a few days ago. I think it would be cool if each one was sent out to someone as a “pay it forward” and was kept in circulation til the end of time
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Already made room in my casket.
Wasn’t so hard. Taking my weapons also. Have a nice day!
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Wait. What?
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You know, yo-yos that seem incredibly significant here, but somehow remain insignificant in the real world.
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Well, sometimes I have thought about being buried with only one yoyo: the pistolero, and in 3000 years, when some metal detectorist finds him, he will ask himself: “WTF…???, The Pistolero? SPYY??” Haha, seriously, the rest of my collection doesn’t matter to me what happens to her once she’s dead, really;)
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