Like KD, I keep all my items (collection) on Excel spreadsheet and all the time update it, sometimes just for "kicks"... or so.......
It pretty much goes well, most of the time. Until... like last night..... I am again going through the items and now doing so to add in information of location in train room ( tub, box, on wall shelves, which wall of shelving, display case, etc. ). Well, since I did acquire items from local antique stores, flea markets, etc. when working out of state, thought it was pretty much in inventory... LOL!!!! Just in adding the items on the West wall of the train room, I found 4 items not in either of my inventory files. And, have other items located in past week I am in need of photographing and put into files. So, the story goes around and around and you then ask yourself "do I really need that? " And, naturally, the answer is always the same.. "Yes... I have that hole in the collection to fill... the correct engine to pull that consist..... hey, it was tooo good a buy to pass it up.....etc.
Jesse TCA 12-68275
