A Poll Regarding Bad JuJu

[el unit]

Tons of life left in that Coleman cooler- use it!

 

[----]

Your buddies are trying to reverse engineer their way into an awesome cooler.

 

[Southern Elk]

Keep it. Fill it with those Coors that you like.

 

[Oak]

Keep it if you’ll use it. My garage is half full of crap I “might use someday” or that someone gave me. Major purge coming soon.

 

[JoltnJoe]

Keep her, she’s a beaut Clark!

 

[Tradewind]

keep it. You keep the memory of them alive. Wife would prob appreciate you sending her a pic of your camp or fishing trip
with said cooler in use. I have one item like that I take along and use once every hunting season, although technology has long since passed it by

 

[livingthedream]

Most definitely keep the cooler, it’s already broken in! Now tell us more about your archaeological bison skull find

 

[Werty]

So wear a life jacket.

 

[ShadowFast1]

I had the same cooler in red when I was a kid. I wish I knew what happened to it. There's no such thing as luck or "juju". If you can use it keep it, if you don't need it bless somebody else with it.

 

[Nameless Range]

Thank you all.

Nearly unanimous advice. My buddies had me questioning myself.

I like the idea of letting the wife know that the cooler is still out there making memories.

Tonight was an annual get together with friends chasing ling and beer, and the cooler kept the Ancient Age at the proper temperature until it was nearly gone. It’s now going home with a couple burbot and another ding or two.

Nothing finer than the screams of kids reeling a ling out of the water in the light of their headlamps.


Happy New Year.

 

[hank4elk]

We had the same cooler in red. It wound up with the ex & she still uses it.
I wonder how much of my stuff will wind up in a dump?

 

[dirtclod Az.]

We had the same cooler in red. It wound up with the ex & she still uses it.
I wonder how much of my stuff will wind up in a dump?

Tell her it has "Muy bad"juju' maybe she will give it back.

 

[blueridge]

My granddad kept the shotgun my 2nd cousin (his nephew) killed himself with behind the door as his sparrow blaster. When asked how he could keep it around his response was “It’s just wood and steel.”
That’s a great old cooler.

 

[BrentD]

Of course you keep it! Absolutely.

Wouldn't you feel good knowing that your stuff that was part of your best times was going to be part of someone else's best times after you were gone - no matter how you go?

Remember and toast your friend whenever you pull out a beer. It's a no brainer.

 

[MTGomer]

Unless something crazy involving the cooler, like he tripped over the cooler and hit his head happened, I’d keep it.

 

[hank4elk]

Tell her it has "Muy bad"juju' maybe she will give it back.

It was not one of the meat coolers,so I let her have it along with the picnic basket. We used both when she came to NM this summer.
What goes around comes around. We are still friends and she brought me 2 rugs she wove for the old cabin,made from my Ranger jeans. Then she sent me the whole set of stoneware we had used this fall.
I gave her 2 of my grandpas hats & 1 from my uncles collection I have. Her daughter loves hats.
I live with good juju.....

 

[Mica Man]

Terrible I know, but wasn't that item used as a coffin for some guy named Gary?

 

[NR_Hunter]

In a similar situation, David Ball bought a corvette that used to belong Private Andrew Malone, a soldier that died in Vietnam. One night it ended up saving his life when the ghost of Private Malone pulled him from the burning wreckage of a crash, so I would say there is potential for good mojo just as well.

 

[Nameless Range]

Maclean wrote that the first and last question of life was, "How did it happen". I don't feel comfortable saying because it could make the deceased identifiable, but the cooler was not involved.

@Ben Long I bought the Red Ryder for my son but I have been having way more fun with it than him.
@livingthedream I pulled that skull out of the banks of the Blackfoot west of Lincoln. It started to fall apart immediately so I coated the whole thing in polyurethane and that saved it.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

My dad had the same exact one when I was kid growing up in Alaska late 70’s early 80’s if my memory is accurate, I’d use that in a second