Worry not. I went Nuts with this hobby years ago. Enjoy
it, this hobby is about fun. Have to go I have a call from
Jack out in Hollywood, something about hearing voices.
Many Thanks,
Billy C
Originally Posted by GG-1fan:
In the final analysis, we are only the caretakers of our personal possessions. When we go, they go; and we have no control on their ultimate disposition.
That sure is true. Just ask (if we could) the Pharaoh Tutankamon, and he took his stuff with him! Where is it all now? It sure isn't still gathered around him safe-n-sound, is it.
And from the looks of it all, he simply had it and enjoyed it all, while he had the chance, which was its true value after all, huh.
Guys,
It seems to me that WE worry about what we have way too much! Take stock in now for yourself,enjoy it now photograph it, photograph yourself and your friends enjoying it.....for tomorrow it will be gone....we can reminisce all we want, lament it all, all we want.....what the key is to store it in the archives somewhere...for someone to remember...
Whether it be our children, or our children's sweet children or our local Boyscout Troop... If it matter's that your memories be preserved (then preserve them in pictures) and someone loves it enough to actually preserve it, and who knows, they may actually rebuild it!
The rest is fantasy and unless you are Disney or Snyder or Sinatra it's bound to be broken up.
Enjoy it now... Enjoy your memories, they like you, are unique!!!!
Be selfish a little, after all, you deserve it.
Mike Maurice
From Blue Thunder:
"Do you know he checks his sanity with a wrist watch?"
"What do you check yours with, a dipstick?
Enjoy now, today. It will not last forever. Guaranteed.
.
As I sit here with a freshly opened package of HO scale Plastistruct
Diamond plate ( because it is more scale) and two versions of a Wisemen cast brass tool box opening and non opening) and contemplate how to detail the All-Nation Nw2 2rail diesel switcher kit that I just spent 10 hours filing and filling seams on that I bought after I just bought not one but two versions of the General Models Corp 3 rail versions in pristine condition and felt a bit guilty about kit bashing those.
I realized that I may no be insane but just a bit crazy.
And since I can afford it, why not.
In the grand scheme, I have spent thousands of dollars more and less interesting and fun things.
I invest in my own happiness( or maybe neurosis, but it is all the same )when I buy trains.
My ROI is personal satisfaction in developing my skills and increasing my knowledge about my chosen hobby.
When it no longer does that, it really has no value, monetarily or otherwise.
Just more junk to become someone else's treasure.
Diamond plate ( because it is more scale) and two versions of a Wisemen cast brass tool box opening and non opening) and contemplate how to detail the All-Nation Nw2 2rail diesel switcher kit that I just spent 10 hours filing and filling seams on that I bought after I just bought not one but two versions of the General Models Corp 3 rail versions in pristine condition and felt a bit guilty about kit bashing those.
I realized that I may no be insane but just a bit crazy.
And since I can afford it, why not.
In the grand scheme, I have spent thousands of dollars more and less interesting and fun things.
I invest in my own happiness( or maybe neurosis, but it is all the same )when I buy trains.
My ROI is personal satisfaction in developing my skills and increasing my knowledge about my chosen hobby.
When it no longer does that, it really has no value, monetarily or otherwise.
Just more junk to become someone else's treasure.
Thank you all for making me feel better!
Is that what we were doing??? 
Better, schmetter - in 30 years almost all these 20-lb locomotives will be ships ballast
(again) or oddly-shaped doorstops.
This topic always comes up in one form or another.Its the same every time.Everyone skips over the last reply to write their 19 paragraph thesis.If you are having fun now nothing else matters anyway.
