Why is Friday the toughest day to not buy any new train items?

Why are you trying to Not spend money on trains.

 

ha! I know the feeling. You only live once so if you enjoy it then buy it. as long as your not taking out loans to buy the stuff. Just make sure you grab some flowers for the wife and you will be fine.

Friday, the toughest day not to buy trains????  Saturday through Thursday are pretty rough on me!  For me its a 24/7 proposition. 

I am with all of you. Every other Friday is payday and I hate it when my paycheck vanishes in one day with bills and food and clearing up any purchases done on line.
My issue is I am a train junkie with lots of inventory yet minimal display. I have to start showing them or purging them from my house as the inventory. Morphs into boxes of clutter

Rain days are my train days

I keep on the straight and narrow by thinking about how many engines are in my repair shop, and the fact that If I never repair them I might still have a lifetime worth of engine runtime sitting around.

Friday!?!?  For gosh sakes, a robin landed in my back yard the other day and I was compelled to buy some trains!

"Friday!?!?  For gosh sakes, a robin landed in my back yard the other day and I was compelled to buy some trains!"

 

Very funny Brian, but wait, you weren't kidding.

For me, it was weekends. I'd found early on that my wife would say, "Just go ahead and get it," even with stuff I was on the fence about, when she was with me at the hobby shop in Tacoma. But if I walked in the house after going and she didn't know ahead of time, I wouldn't get a warm welcome. As long as she knew ahead of time, I was able to get away with a lot. In fact, we were at the gift shop for the White Pass & Yukon RR last month and I'd warned her I'd probably buy a but o' swag there. When I brought stuff up to be rung up, she saw there wasn't all that much and said, "That's all you're going to get?" I bet the nice gal at the cash register didn't hear that said often. She'd expected me to buy a lot of stuff, including a DVD set I'd assumed they had for sale there (which they didn't, I bought it online a couple of weeks later though).

But discipline keeps you from going broke. I model a very specific prototype RR that never interchanged with any other and didn't have a lot of rolling stock by the timeframe I'm modeling. Anything excess really wouldn't make sense, even though I bought an extra locomotive that was off the RR a year before my layout's timeframe (it is, like most layouts, an alternate reality representation).

Having collected various non-RR-related things for my adult life, I know how to set tight goals and stick with them.

I've found through that, that it's always best to have 2 'way cool' things than 10 'so-so' things. You can get to a point where the stuff owns you, and to me, that's no fun at all.

I rarely find wisdom in song lyrics but I live by this one:

 

It's not having what you want

It's wanting what you've got

-"Soak Up The Sun" by Cheryl Crow

I'm not sure either.

 

Today was a good Friday-VL Reefers arrived, another set of different reefers, and an MTH caboose I've been waiting on for over a year.

 

Last Friday was K-Line 21" passenger cars.

 

The Friday before...you get the point.

       
       


Lol!  I'm beginning to believe I'm not alone.

For me it would be Thursdays at York.

Hmmmm.... I see a pattern. Wives go along to the hobby shop or know you're going ahead of time and all is well. Buy something without her prior knowledge and a small portion of cold shoulder is on the menu. That seems the pattern around my house too. 

 

I'm trying to get my wife to understand why I need to pre-order the new items. In the past most purchases were postwar and made at shows. 

I confess I was weak twice today, but both were great deals..........

 

Friday's aren't the problem. It's Saturdays or Sundays when there's a train show in Raleigh!

Its not the day of the week for me, my hobby has always been on a tight budget so its the "Great Deal" that  I just can't pass up!  

Have wish sandwich. A sandwich with two pieces of bread with me wishing I had meat. The meat part is the trains. In other words I dream about and wish I had it.