Collector or Hoarder

[stillp]

I’ve found it fairly easy to say, “No, not going to buy this kit.”

Yes Jakko, it's very easy to say that!
Pete

[Allen Dewire]

So true, so true and so easy to say,

I said No Kits, No Kits and No Kits after I realized that the stash was way more than I could build in a lifetime or two. Sold 22 in evilbay with plans on selling another 40. I have only purchased 6 new ones of late. It's a disease that we all love or hate to have. There is no cure other than will power or taking up knitting.

Will power, what's Will got to do with it!!!!!!!! knitting??? Are you freaking nuts!!!!!!!!!

Mojo Rising
Allen

[Guest]

Yes Jakko, it's very easy to say that!

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

[stillp]

Every model show I've been to in the last 2 years, I've told myself and anyone else who'd listen "NO MORE KITS". The best I've managed is to only buy two.
My other downfall is charity shops. I can't resist a bargain.
Pete

[Gern]

Every model show I've been to in the last 2 years, I've told myself and anyone else who'd listen "NO MORE KITS". The best I've managed is to only buy two.
My other downfall is charity shops. I can't resist a bargain.
Pete

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!

[Gern]

Also easy to then not buy it, is my experience :smiling3: 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

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[Guest]

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.......

[Guest]

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.