Collector or Hoarder

[Gern]

Also easy to then not buy it, is my experience However, experiences may vary …

Bit like trying to give up smoking Jakko. Some folks can just say "That's it! No more cigarettes", and give up just like that. Others can struggle for years and may have to rely on substitutes or other medical solutions. I was sort of fortunate. I had a heart attack and my surgeon told me I'd have less than 5 years to live if I didn't give up. I found that quite a good incentive!

 

[SteveH]

Just keep buying and worry about it later, that's my mantra LOL

 

[Deleted member 7917]

Now, that's what I'd call a stash. Very impressive, Steve.

 

[Allen Dewire]

Damn Steve,

That sure is a lot of plastic you have there on the shelves!!! Nice!!!!!!

 

[adt70hk]

Wot! keep a secret from SWMBO? You gotta be kidding! She'll know more about your purchases than you do!

Dave

I've recently used my mother to keep my wife in the dark about some new arrivals. Not that my mother knows that.......... Although I think she might suspect.......

It's a significant birthday for me at the end of the year and even though she is a pensioner she had offered to give me me a very generous monetary gift to use as I saw fit.

There is a particular kit I really wanted that is hard to come by, at least for a reasonable price. I recently found it online again on one site, along with another kit that complements it and that I was also looking to get. Again at a VERY good price, plus a plane I have been looking for to add to my 'Hunters and Hunted' collection.

So with my mother's permission, I recently ordered the items well ahead of time and had them shipped to her, rather than here. that way she can pretend she had an inspired guess as to what I would want.........

ATB

Andrew

 

[adt70hk]

Steve. I am truly in awe.......

 

[Archetype]

I’m neither. I have a meagre pile of of around a dozen kits I fully intend to build.

Mainly they consist of aircraft on my wish list that come up at the right price or I know are hard to find.

That said, I’m not entirely sure I qualify as a ‘modeller’ by the standards here.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

Dave

I've recently used my mother to keep my wife in the dark about some new arrivals. Not that my mother knows that.......... Although I think she might suspect.......

It's a significant birthday for me at the end of the year and even though she is a pensioner she had offered to give me me a very generous monetary gift to use as I saw fit.

There is a particular kit I really wanted that is hard to come by, at least for a reasonable price. I recently found it online again on one site, along with another kit that complements it and that I was also looking to get. Again at a VERY good price, plus a plane I have been looking for to add to my 'Hunters and Hunted' collection.

So with my mother's permission, I recently ordered the items well ahead of time and had them shipped to her, rather than here. that way she can pretend she had an inspired guess as to what I would want.........

ATB

Andrew

I guess that's what they call a cunning plan or a scheme devised by a superior mind like Jeeves!

 

[Tim Marlow]

I can’t help thinking that Psychologists would have a field day with us lot....they could have whole conferences about us LOL....

 

[KarlW]

As long as buying kits doesn't impinge on your ability to pay your househould bills you're not a hoarder, proper hoarding can be a real issue and is linked to mental health issues.

I keep making the "no more kits" promise to myself, then say "just one kit this month".......but am at the point it's time to thin the stash again, I also need to be stronger with the actually getting stuff finished before starting the next kit.

 

[adt70hk]

As long as buying kits doesn't impinge on your ability to pay your househould bills you're not a hoarder, proper hoarding can be a real issue and is linked to mental health issues.

I keep making the "no more kits" promise to myself, then say "just one kit this month".......but am at the point it's time to thin the stash again, I also need to be stronger with the actually getting stuff finished before starting the next kit.

Karl

Actually you make a very good point about mental health issues and paying the bills.

In my case the lockdown has meant less extracurricular funding in cafe's, shops etc. and so I've had more to spend on the hobby, albeit in my case it's been on paints and other supplies.

ATB

Andrew

 

[Tim Marlow]

In my case lockdown. And the house move that preceded it, has meant finally opening and appraising things that have gone from loft to loft over the years. I’ve ditched a lot, but sold as much on eBay (Old childhood games, Airfix kits and a large number of etched railway kits I would not now make) so am about two grand up.....that is now my stash money and should last me a few years...Selling my Subbuteo was a bit like selling my childhood though

 

[Gern]

Dave

I've recently used my mother to keep my wife in the dark about some new arrivals. Not that my mother knows that.......... Although I think she might suspect.......

It's a significant birthday for me at the end of the year and even though she is a pensioner she had offered to give me me a very generous monetary gift to use as I saw fit.

There is a particular kit I really wanted that is hard to come by, at least for a reasonable price. I recently found it online again on one site, along with another kit that complements it and that I was also looking to get. Again at a VERY good price, plus a plane I have been looking for to add to my 'Hunters and Hunted' collection.

So with my mother's permission, I recently ordered the items well ahead of time and had them shipped to her, rather than here. that way she can pretend she had an inspired guess as to what I would want.........

ATB

Andrew

That's sneaky - but how close are your mom and missus?

Like I said the other week: "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead."

 

[stillp]

Where do you guys find all these charity shops with models for sale? I have 7 or 8 charity shops in my local town and I can't remember that last time I saw any model in any of them!

SWMBO loves to browse charity shops Dave, so everywhere we go she insists on going round every charity shop. Look in enough places often enough, and you'll find summat, but the success rate is probably less that 5%. Nuneaton has been quite productive in the past. A few years ago one of the shops there had an entire window full of kits - someone's stash perhaps. They were asking silly money though, so I didn't buy any.
Pete

 

[KarlW]

SWMBO loves to browse charity shops Dave, so everywhere we go she insists on going round every charity shop. Look in enough places often enough, and you'll find summat, but the success rate is probably less that 5%. Nuneaton has been quite productive in the past. A few years ago one of the shops there had an entire window full of kits - someone's stash perhaps. They were asking silly money though, so I didn't buy any.
Pete

Charity shops are getting better informed, though the best I found was the Polar Lights 1/350 USS Enterprise for £20, that one was flipped quite quickly. I also recall finding a Billing Boats kit that had been part started while a child for a cheap price, but my mum wouldn't supplement the money in my pocket.

 

[minitnkr]

A town of modelers I'll bet, Dave. PaulE

 

[wotan]

You're all bonkers...However don't stop buying since I hear that the UK GDP has dropped more than 20% since March.

John

 

[rtfoe]

My problem started when I got cash certificates for my wins and gathered a stash and won't sell them as I'm fooling myself intending to build everyone of them if I can live to 150.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[stillp]

getting stuff finished before starting the next kit.

That's one rule I do manage to keep to, simply because I don't have enough working space to have more than one on the go at any time.
Pete

 

[Gern]

You're all bonkers...

It's taken you this long to fathom that out!!