Hoarding

Pete,

This York should then be a big change for you. I am use to seeing you zipping around the halls being a real "redneck" taking it all in very rapidly. It will be a pleasure to have a nice long slow discussion with you without you darting off for the next buy

I have purchased some things, and when trying to make room to store them, I have found that they are already there!  Seems we all buy too much, lose track of it, and end up buying it again.  Heck, it keeps the economy going.  We all contribute to those BIG DOLLARS of the national economy, the pundits and officials talk about on Sunday morning shows.  We're doing our part!   

Just think:  if there was no hoarding in this hobby, what would happen to Lionel and the other mfrs?  They would go bankrupt right away if everyone only bought just what would fit on their layout!

 

People hoarding trains is what keeps this hobby afloat!!

  I think you were on the right track until the last sentence.  My take on "hoarding" as you define it is the following:  Unbuilt kits will get me through times of no money better than money will get me through times of no unbuilt kits!  

My mother told me  "why do you need more than 1 engine"  I had 3 at that time  " you only run 1 at a tIme, now I have many more and am still buying engines.

 

How many is enough?????????  You can never have too much power

 

Rod

I purchased a note book from walgreenes called a fat book divided it up into sections for future expansion and started listing all the car kits ,parts , trucks ,etc., and what I paid for them plus shipping, so I can buy sell or trade and keep reasonable track of how much I lost. Cause believe me I aint in it for the money. you could do it on a computer. but there to heavy to cart around, the smart phone thingy seems more of an alternate lifestyle eventual drug addiction leash if I ever saw one. AHHHH.... Remember the good old days when the hardline phone sat on top of the phone book at home where it belonged, and if it rang someone would answer it for their convenience!!!

When I had an operating layout, my father looked around the room, and said, "Save your money. We have enough trains. If times get tough, you can't eat trains." 

I pressed the whistle button, and responded with, "But you can't play with your food."

Can't say that this has been a problem for me. I tend to buy just what I need for a project, so excess inventory is not present.

This is all about wants, not needs!  Cruising York for any and all stuff is really fun!  Do not feel guilty.

 

 

I haven't done it yet.  I guess I'm too careful with my train allowance for it to happen, but who knows?

I have more duplicates than I wish to remember.

"Hoarding" is such a negative word...

How about-

"accumulating future trading stock"?

"Oh Randy don't play with your food...eat it!"

 

-from a Christmas Story.

 

I try not to do the hoarding thing as I really don't have the room or excess funds. It seems that I find I don't even find the time to work on planned projects.

I'll give you a copy of my list. You can help me spend some of my money! 

Don't count on it Al.  Pete will still be flying around the halls! I think his bow spins to give him extra "thrust"!!

Gilly, if you actually need help spending your money, you will not be short of volunteers,

Yes, I do the same thing, and more frequently with age. Just last week, I took back a Legacy cable that I ended up with 2 of during the year I was waiting on my 990 system. Moving last fall hasn't helped as there is still a lot of stuff in plastic containers. Needless to say I already had that same cable in one of those containers.

 

It also works the other way, I have a very nice, almost new engine cradle that I had just gotten shortly before we moved. I am still looking for that one and haven't a clue as to where it might be. Wasn't in any of the plastic containers with the rest of my train items... 

A gentleman simply does not use the "H" word in polite company, my good man.

I have seen the hoarding shows on TV. If they are to be believed , hoarding can only be accomplished by buying lots of "Precious Moment" products as well as a host of items from Wallmart. Never have I seen Lionel products , or even MTH products in the TV shows, nor at Wallmart.

What we do is collecting, but if Lionel is sold at some future date is sold at Wallmart, then we will be hoarders.

For now we are safe.

Fred

 

Nothing against Wallmart, could be Target or Crate and Barrel, or even Herrods.

This reminds me of the fellow from Trainworld at York.  He says, "The more you buy, the more you save."  My wife's rejoinder: "The less you spend, the more you save."

You might point out you wear only one dress, pair of shoes, etc at a time.

The nice thing about old trains, that once belonged to someone else, is that you "adopted" them (because they felt sad being no longer played with).
Who can find fault with THAT?

I always say "I buy high, and sell low, but I make up for it in the volume."

FYI  for what it's worth, Audi, Walmart has on a few occasions sold Lionel RTR sets in their stores during past holiday seasons.

'I make up for it in volume'
Well played.  That cracked me up.

I try to keep up with my collection on Excel spreadsheets. I still buy more than I will ever need, but having a list works to keep it under some control.

The best sound in the world is the UPS truck pulling away from your house!

I live by the notion 'if I see it at a god price....buy it!!'.....

So it does make it look like I am a hoarder.

I think it steams from the 1960's..........

When the Woolco stores would run a huge model train sale I'd buy a few things. (I was HO then)I kinda figured that $20 Rivarossi Big Boys were going to be around forever.......

But as you guessed the days of low cost locos and trains  ended.  How I wish I'd bought some of those deals back in the day.

So now if I see it and it's a good price I buy....even if for a future project.....and yes....at times I buy something I have already!

who knew?

...unscathed by my dogs.

Our dogs are bribed with Milk Bones by our UPS guy. They start making happy sounds when the big brown truck pulls up. USPS and FedEx is another matter. They really go nutz then they show up at the house.

 

Gilly

Lionel Hoard...

I call in stockpiling, not hoarding.  And yes, I do it, much like AMCDave does.

Cape Cod Al,

You just brought back my first memory of Peter. I was setting up in White Hall for my first visit to York and saw Peter running through the halls. I think he had a tape recorder with him (this was back in the 80's). This is a memory that stuck with me about how great it was to be at York. I am sorry for getting off of the topic.

 

Alan Graziano

I define hoarding as being unwilling to part with any of that which you have acquired. I occasionally "cull" my collection of trains sometimes. (not often - but I do)

 

 

started an airport on my board about 2 years ago.

got interested in the WWII war birds and have a collection

of about 10-12 unbuildt kits sitting waiting for a rainy day.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwW2VwAPsVI