Wether it's a car, engine or scenery how often do you buy somthing?
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Haven't bought anything new in years. I do buy used stuff every so often when I get to a train show. 
Frequently. Just this week I picked up 4 ceramic buildings, elves, 3 ski figures, materials for cobblestone roads, and a Budweiser Clydesdale transport truck. All used of course.
The best part is that these are all going on the bigger expanded layout......someday.
I don't have a layout, but I have an idea of what I want on it, so when I see certain items that will be useful at a good price, I grab them. The most recent was a Korber #2005 Warehouse kit. I went after a #2010 that came up but it bid up WAY over what I thought it was worth. Hopefully Rich will be able to recover the tooling for the #2005 and #2010 kits and we'll see them again.
About once every week . . .
Depends on how much money I can save...
Right now I am selling on the Bay so I can save for some new stuff. 
when i had my layout, maybe once a month i'd pick up a k-line building kit or something small. Now, i'm without a layout but I pick up stuff on ebay probably just as often or maybe once every other month. I think of something that's on my wish list and search for one on ebay that needs some TLC, get it cheap and fix it up. then it ends up going in storage for that someday when i'll have a layout again. Been focusing on Lionel postwar mostly because it's easy to work with. I always have my eye on something, then I end up playing devil's advocate in my mind for a month or so before I decide to buy or not.... "well I don't really need that train" "but it's really cool" "i don't run anything with that roadname" "yeah, but it's REALLY COOL"
No engines or rolling stock but have bought some plywood and 1x4's since committing to the VLBB
Brent
Whenever I see a good deal for something, used or new.
Minimum of twice a year but that has not been the case over the past few years. Because I have got back to working on the layout I have bought scenery items, new switches, and when the new catalogs come out I go through them and order if a engine or a new freight car design is offered I buy them because I like to buy something never offered before and something I don't have...................paul
Whenever I see something I like.
Same for me. My layout is pretty much "finished" now, so I'm not out buying more supplies to actually build or even add to the layout. However, IF I see something that I like, or "need", I'll often "pop" for it to improve the overall layout. Sometimes this requires removing something that had been in place on the layout.
As for new trains, I have the layout as full as I can make it and still have some engines and a lot of cars packed away, waiting for the day I place them on the layout and actually use them. Not much more that I'm looking for.
Paul Fischer
Hi all, ditto what JDaddy said selling on the so as to pick up new items. Merry Christmas Jim & Colleen R.
Once a week I suppose, depending on what mood I am in, and what phase of construction my layout is in.
I bought a starter set two weeks ago. Is that one item or ...?
My layout is pretty small, so there's not a lot of room for anything more. I guess the most recent purchases were a couple of 1/43 automobiles.
I'm sure he meant "New to you"
Originally Posted by handyandy:
Originally Posted by handyandy:Haven't bought anything new in years. I do buy used stuff every so often when I get to a train show.
Originally Posted by Spence:
Whenever I see something I like.
Same here...which seems to be WAY too often lately!!!!
As often as possible.
Every week, unless something comes up and I don't make it to my LHS that week. However, missing a visit rarely happens.
Too often
Probably every couple of weeks. If I include supplies for working on the layout or, locomotives and rolling stock, it is every week.
George
NEED, either real or pretend. 
This was my biggest buying years for O-Gauge. Some stuff was brand new I ordered, the other stuff was new to me from the bay !
I bought the Lionel Frosty Set . That led me to find some Lionel train cars with Snow men on them .
I also bought a MTH z-1000 transformer , the two new Christmas & holiday cars from Mth. I also bought the MTH NYC three pack of boxcars I ordered.
The NYC mth passenger cars came in . they are on lay away .
I am still waiting on a PLE berk from MTH 2014 vol 1 & a NYC MOHAWK set with cars from MTH 2014 vol 2 . Also a NYC rs-1 from MTH 2014 vol 2 . I also ordered the CHRISTMAS Diesel from MTH .
