Author Topic: How do you deal with "must-have-everything-I-see-itus" (Read 8408 times)

Weird WWII · « **Reply #15 on:** May 16, 2009, 01:54:39 PM »

Get married, have a couple kids and get a 30 year mortgage, that should slow ya down.

Brian

Unforgiven · « **Reply #16 on:** May 16, 2009, 08:29:09 PM »

I just tell myself I wont have any money for the stuff I actually need and that if I get all those goodies they'Ll only be painted in maybe..70 years.

Argonor · « **Reply #17 on:** May 16, 2009, 09:07:41 PM »

Quote from: Kampfgruppe Cottrell on May 16, 2009, 01:54:39 PM

Get married, have a couple kids and get a 30 year mortgage, that should slow ya down.

Brian

I have 2 out of 3 - probably going to get that mortgage during the next year....

Ramshackle_Curtis · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2009, 11:14:46 PM »

See I have been trying to figure out where I stand on this. I dont have a mdel mountian. I have about 3 armies finished plus a load of stuff for toher games, like gangs and warbands and such. However, the unpainted bits are just old rare collectors items and 4 sprues of plastic goblins. But then I have a business where I make models, so really I have a whole seperate space away from home that I rent to store my hobby stuff in, AS WELL as hundreds of models at home! I done have a lead mountain, I have a mountain of moulds, misscasts and models....

Rhoderic · « **Reply #19 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:06:37 PM »

Historically, I haven't had a lot of cash to throw around, due to still being a student, so that's helped keep me in check. The feeling of self-disgust after spending too much at once always makes me slow down again (and I think I define "too much" as a smaller amount of money than many other hobbyists). This might change soon as I'm slowly beginning to have more money to move around with, but I digress.

Lately I've also found that I can channel almost all my buying impulses into one project, if I choose a project that's big enough. For me that's Swords-and-Sorcery. Nowadays I can look at awesome stuff like the Quar or the recent BCW releases and simply think "Nice, but not now". Too busy with my Mongol warriors, my Atlantean knights, my indigenous African empires etc which I can all fit into the same project.

Argonor · « **Reply #20 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:42:43 PM »

Quote from: Rhoderic on May 17, 2009, 01:06:37 PM

Historically, I haven't had a lot of cash to throw around, due to still being a student, so that's helped keep me in check. The feeling of self-disgust after spending too much at once always makes me slow down again (and I think I define "too much" as a smaller amount of money than many other hobbyists). This might change soon as I'm slowly beginning to have more money to move around with, but I digress.

Lately I've also found that I can channel almost all my buying impulses into one project, if I choose a project that's big enough. For me that's Swords-and-Sorcery. Nowadays I can look at awesome stuff like the Quar or the recent BCW releases and simply think "Nice, but not now". Too busy with my Mongol warriors, my Atlantean knights, my indigenous African empires etc which I can all fit into the same project.

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I'm slowly starting down that path, too - but I often find myself ordering some extra packs 'on the side' to keep average postage down, anyway

Mad Carew Snr · « **Reply #21 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:56:21 PM »

Quote from: Bezzo the Barbarian on May 16, 2009, 05:45:11 PM

people with no self-control and with butterfly/compulsive minds

You just described me Bezzo!

bandit86 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 17, 2009, 02:06:38 PM »

Just give into the dark side you know you want too

6mmfan · « **Reply #23 on:** May 19, 2009, 07:19:39 AM »

Try counting how long it would take to paint your current lead pile. I worked out mine and it was 3 years and then I realised I'd forgotten some stuff. Smiley

It slowed down my purchases and now I focus more on finishing an army completely before moving onto another army.

Cheers

Vanvlak · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2009, 08:21:15 AM »

Quote from: 6mmfan on May 19, 2009, 07:19:39 AM

Try counting how long it would take to paint your current lead pile. I worked out mine and it was 3 years and then I realised I'd forgotten some stuff. Smiley

It slowed down my purchases and now I focus more on finishing an army completely before moving onto another army.

Cheers

At my current rate of production, 40 years. And I'm serious. And I'd be 82.

Cheeky Monkey · « **Reply #25 on:** May 23, 2009, 01:44:40 AM »

I really don't have to have everything I see although with a game shop a few doors down from my business it does come down to - do I want to pay the electric bill or get all those new minis they just got in - every once in a while. Mostly I try to keep focused on my current project(s) so that I don't have too much clutter in my already overcrowded work space. And as someone else said - storage becomes critical especially since I've already filled up a 26'x18' room with my "hobby".

Gluteus Maximus · « **Reply #26 on:** May 23, 2009, 04:23:41 PM »

Quote from: Cheeky Monkey on May 23, 2009, 01:44:40 AM

.... I've already filled up a 26'x18' room with my "hobby".

Wow! That's an impressive amount of space to fill up

Kestrel · « **Reply #27 on:** May 23, 2009, 10:44:57 PM »

My secret is to stop looking, if I don't see it I cannot be tempted

It's working as well and my backlog of unpainted models is beginning to decrease until I see something on this forum I simply have to have and go to an appropriate website to buy it and see yet more shiny things to buy.

pnweerar · « **Reply #28 on:** May 24, 2009, 03:03:05 PM »

Whenever you want to buy something new, force yourself to wait 24 hours. If you can even make yourself do that, that's an achievement. Then learn to keep doing that.

If you find after a month you have just as much a hankering after the gems are you had when you first heard about them, go ahead and buy them.

By following this, the only serious mini purchases I've made in a while are Uncharted Seas. I ended up buying all four fleets and I'm expanding them as they release new goodies -- and I have no regrets. This is big change from the previous, when I would buy something, be thrilled, be bored, and finally feel a bit stupid.

WillieB · « **Reply #29 on:** May 24, 2009, 04:36:32 PM »

Tried to limit myself to just a few periods. SCW, FIW, IWI and a sprinkling of WWI, WWII and some SF.

Somehow however I seem to have found a way to 'link' Neanderthals to spaceships with most all other periods thrown in as well.
Back to the drawing board.
If I can find it under my lead mountain range.

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