MY WIFE…….

RS,

  Sell Trains, we acquire them not sell them, we make sure a needy Military family gets one to pass down thru their family as much as we can, sell sell, we never sell Trains, Good Lord woman.

PCRR/Dave

 Are you ever going to "sell" some trains?……...

I've been selling off the excess regularly now for 2 years running and plan on continuing that process this coming year.  I have 4+ storage tubs of cars, engines, structures, etc. ready to go right now.

If I haven't run a train in years and want something new I usually will sell some.  But sometimes when I get right down to it I say naw this is just to cool to let go.

  My WIFE is going to get a good vacation when I leave this world with all that I have amassed.

Gotta do what i do with new shoes.. Hide them until they are not around!! and then take them out.. they will never know the difference shhh

My wife gave up asking. She just looks at the boxes when they arrive, shakes her head & walks away

I can count on one hand the number of items I have sold but the truck is filled for this weekends show. No more room for more until I sell some.

Pete

I told her that ,one day, selling will be her job.

Brad

I ran out of space, and sold my HO scale trains. Bringing in Prewar though .

Periodically I sell off my excess. If I have not run it in 2 years thats a good indication its no longer needed. Will be listing a few engines on the forum in the coming days

Many of us have had the model train hoarding sickness for many years until one day you wake up and ask yourself what the heck am I doing with all this stuff?  While I continue to build and improve my layout, The train purchases have really been throttled back in the last two years. Buying is now very selective with the focus on layout artistry, realism, simple operation and high reliability. As for my wife, when it comes to my hobbies, she minds her business (as she should) . She's not my mother and I don't answer to her. She's supportive but if she objected it would not make the slightest bit of difference. I am not hurting anyone or breaking my marriage vows because of my hobbies.

Dennis LaGrua posted:

Many of us have had the model train hoarding sickness for many years until one day you wake up and ask yourself what the heck am I doing with all this stuff? 

Ha!  You said what many will deny!  It is hoarding and it is sickness by definition.  What I wonder about is the underlying cause.  How did we get to this point?

What, me worry?

SELL???

I added another loop (will be complete as soon as FedEx gets here, needed 2 pieces of 084 )  to the upper section, no choice , too many pieces of rolling stock and an engine that gets little running time.

Brent)

My wife does not know when most stuff arrives as she is usually at work. I just received a Reading T-1, cab # 2102, by MTH, bought from a person on the forum here.

Lee Fritz

Keep all the trains you can... its only thing they cannot take away from you.

Buying more trains than you need is one thing, but hiding them from your wives, whether by design or happenstance, just isn't right.  If your wives can't trust you, who can?

Sell?  Wow....she must be joking  There is no selling here, just acquiring. 

For years now, my wife has told our friends I have an "underground railroad" in the basement. That every time she goes down there, there seems to be more trains, but she doesn't know how they got there? 

In all honesty though, there reaches that area of capacity where you physically just cannot store them anywhere....

Thus the solution!

Mount them on the wall all over the basement and store the boxes in the attic....

I just doubled my capacity in one weekend.

WickedWanda44 posted:

Gotta do what i do with new shoes.. Hide them until they are not around!! and then take them out.. they will never know the difference shhh

"They?"  How many do you have?  

Berkshire President posted:

WickedWanda44 posted:

Gotta do what i do with new shoes.. Hide them until they are not around!! and then take them out.. they will never know the difference shhh

"They?"  How many do you have?  

hahahah More then you know!! hahah JK. I didnt mean it like that haha

I see the problem. Very simple, really. You don't have too many trains - you just have too many wives 

You see....with every wife comes a mother-in-law.....which is the real reason polygamy was outlawed!!!

I guess I'm lucky in two ways:

1. My layout is small and I'm not a model train collector, only getting what I will likely be running on a very tightly-focused prototype
2. I have a wife who really gets what's truly important to me and for the most part, indulges my purchases for the layout (for reason # 1)

Yeah, there are plenty of things I don't bother telling my wife, mostly trades and eBay sales/purchases, but not because I fear her wrath. It's more that I don't feel like explaining each thing and what it's for (as most of the time, she wouldn't get it) as I do collect WW2 and sci-fi costume/prop stuff.

BradF posted:

I told her that ,one day, selling will be her job.

 

Brad

Do her a big favor NOW and create and update an inventory list with your best guess of the approximate value each will bring when that time comes...

J Daddy posted:

In all honesty though, there reaches that area of capacity where you physically just cannot store them anywhere....

Thus the solution!

Mount them on the wall all over the basement and store the boxes in the attic....

I just doubled my capacity in one weekend.

 

 

 

J Daddy,

Where did you find those short wall brackets?

BTW:  Very nice collection, J Daddy.  And you certainly seem to have the NKP and UP well represented!

I sell them all the time , they are mostly modeled after real train cars , I have had many thanks when people get them from me . They're happy and I am happy.

And I have many more to sell as I am getting out of O scale except building a few certain things but I no longer will have any personal stuff .

And just like that... I'm never getting married!

LOL

My wife told me "no more trains until you find the space", so, we bought a new house with a huge basement storage area.  And, she "gave" me the sun room which is now officially the "Train Room".  Am I lucky or what?  Thanks, K.  I don't I'll be selling much soon unless it's to upgrade from TMCC to Legacy.

I blame all new purchases on my 2 year old grandson, and that greases the skids quite a bit.  I have no problem or conscience about acquiring more trains.  However, I recently bought a collection that was much larger than mine.   So it's kind of like drinking from a fire hose.  The only usable storage area was the train room floor and surface of the layout.  Now I can hardly get into the train area and I cannot run trains.  For the first time I realized I had way too many trains.  So now I am just going to keep some sets I bought while a dealer and some things I really like.  No point having trains if I can't see them or run them.

My Wife does not mind me buying trains,and I do not mind her buying expensive purses and shoes.

There are times when I over do it,but as I get older I realize that "Once In a Lifetime deal" happens over and over,but I still somehow believe  every once in awhile,you really will only have that one chance to buy only a select few train items at a bargain price,but that is the exception not the rule.  

It was great fun learning about pricing and "RARE" piece deals as I progressed in this hobby.When armed with only a price guide,I used to think I was getting great deals on all of my purchases!!

I used to tell my wife,I'll never be able to buy this at this price again!!,only for her to show me a month later the same item,in better condition at a lower price!! 

As for the post above about buying the shoes,I do notice things,but I married my wife to treat her as good as I can.

If the bills are paid,aren't we all here to enjoy ourselves??????

Things are bad enough in the 'Outside' world to have your own war going on about a train or a pair of shoes.

Buy your wife a pair of shoes,hand her some money and say,get your self something nice darling,pay for her salon appointment.

You'll end up happier if you do this,and there will be plenty of nights you will not want to be in the train room!!!!  

That's all for now,there is a deal on a RARE postwar smoking caboose ending in 20 minutes I have to place a bid on!!! 

I sold off about 1/3 of my rolling stock. Pretty nice stuff that I wish now that I still had.

She didn't even notice.... In my Will now that my trains go to my buddies in our club. True friends (no one has knocked me off, yet)

"He who dies with the most toys, is still dead"