I'm in the process of dismantling my layout so I can build a new one and clearing out the railway room.

I'm amazed at the amount of stuff I've accumulated.   . Most of the things I will be chucking out are things like off cuts of cardboard, odd bits of paint and pieces of wood etc. that I thought would come in useful one day. They haven't yet but no doubt they will do as soon as I've got rid of them!

I also have too much stock for my future layout and too many kits for buildings. I think one of my problems is I can never resist a bargain and on the rare occasion when British outline N comes up for sale at a swapmeet, I usually buy it without thinking.

I will have to do what one of my friends calls "streamlining my collection" otherwise I won't be able to get into the railway room at all!

I'm not the only one am I?

No.

Hi Veronica,
You are probably one of the 95% of us who keep things for a "might come in one day" excuse to hoard!
I am another, have a layout which has more stock than I can run at any one time yet still buy more.
Maurice C.

Guilty as charged M'lady; I can trace some bits back to the 1970s; am I in the short list for the championship?

Yes, but I'm very organised!

I just can't throw away plywood... it's too expensive ! So now i've got loads of useless off cuts. Not quite full hoarding, i'll leave that to my dad ! 

Guilty as charged m'lady 

cheers John.

My (very small) dining room is gradually being swamped with.................
all my boxed locos/rolling stock
my railway reference books and DVD's
storage trays full of carriages
various tools
empty cardboard boxes in case I have to return what I have bought (or use to send stuff to other folks)
bags of bubble wrap/sponge etc for sending things out
bits of card/clear plastic retained from food purchases (usually cake ) that will come in handy
In other words this room has become my work/storage room and is absolutely full of hoard

My family recorded a TV programme just for me with a title something along the lines of "My mother the hoarder" I'm not as bad as the lady in the programme, my hoarding is confined to one room so they were being a bit unfair.

When they were younger they found the railway room a very useful source of cardboard, glue and paint for school projects.

I think it's better to be a bit of a hoarder with a hobby than a minimalist with none so I'm not going to mend my ways completely but a bit of a clear out is certainly called for, even if it's just so I can find things again 

Guilty as anyone.  I have quite a collection of bits of this that and ythe otrher But I do sometimes edit the "doofa" boxes.  When I swapped all my older Farish wagons from all plastic/mixed plastic with metal axles to all metal, I kept the old wheelsets for far longer than I needed to.  Given they would never be used.  I do keep reasonable sized pieces of quality card etc.  That said storage is an issue.

I have certainly kept any coupklings and srpings unless the only way I could see to remove them is cutting them - where I have replaced with MBM and loops for the locos.  I can then change them back if I had cause to seel the item.  And when I switched from NW Wales as a theme to SW Scotland, I did sell all the WR stock - it helped fund Portpatrick Town and some of the new stock I wanted for it.

Quote from: silly moo on October 13, 2013, 02:27:08 PM
I think it's better to be a bit of a hoarder with a hobby than a minimalist with none so I'm not going to mend my ways completely but a bit of a clear out is certainly called for, even if it's just so I can find thigs again 

Amen, I don't like people who don't pursue hobbies or have any interests. They are boring.

We are all Hoarders to a certain extent.  However, I regularly watch the TV show and only when we can say that we can't get to toilet or washing facilities and have to pee in bottles can we call ourselves hoarders.

Somehow, not being able to reach the control panel for piles of unbuilt kits and offcuts of plywood doesn't have the same worrying feel about it....



Andy

Quote from: texhorse on October 13, 2013, 03:22:40 PM
We are all Hoarders to a certain extent.  However, I regularly watch the TV show and only when we can say that we can't get to toilet or washing facilities and have to pee in bottles can we call ourselves hoarders.

Somehow, not being able to reach the control panel for piles of unbuilt kits and offcuts of plywood doesn't have the same worrying feel about it....



Andy

 

not an hoarder , things dont hang around that long ... 


alan

I was asked if I really needed all that stuff under the layout, offcuts of ply, bits of foam, empty boxes etc. My reply was "When I've finished the layout then I'll get rid of it, I just might need it". As we know , our layouts are never really finished, are they.   

well I hoard boxes, well I did do I had  massive clear up yesterday because I needed much needed space for my railway bits and pieces, so all the empty boxes went out and the amount of space that has appeared is huge, even had a box for an old TV that we no longer own, the only box that I was not aloud to throw out was a Sega Mega Drive box, why the lad wants that Keeping I have no idea. Any way we have another place under the stairs that has all the old pottery out of our parents house just cannot get round to selling them, but they are all packed up neat and tidy in large plastic boxes.