Why hoarding is good

[zemjw]

The next time you're asked why you keep hoarding stuff - point them to the BBC - Rare Dinky toy collection fetches £150k at Devon auction 

I'm still considering being buried with some of mine - give me something to do in the afterlife

[eilif]

Hoarding (mostly toy bits, junk parts and model kits) is great for when I get down to making terrain. 

Not so great for the space it takes up...

[Stu]

Or the look from the wife when you turn up with something else you rescued from the bin at work.

[SBRPearce]

Every once in a while, that look is offset by the one you get when you can say:

"Look what that crap from the bin became!"

Or, even better,

"Look how much I shifted that piece of terrain for on Bring & Buy/eBay/whatever."

Of course, that last one only works if you don't immediately turn around and spend re-invest that money back into the hobby...

[eilif]

Good Points.

My wife is genuinely impressed by the terrain I build from castoff-toys, but it never seems to outweigh her chagrin/annoyance/resignation at the amount of space the bins of raw materials seem to take up on the porch. Can't say I blame her, but it's a healthy obsession as obsessions go.

"No, honey I don't need another Geo-Trax Train station, but my sci-fi train system only has one stop..."