Sometimes a good purge is needed. I know I tend to pack rat hobby stuff with a "I can use that for something later" excuse. Then that never happens. So off to the various for sale forums and if that fails, ebay(I hate the fees!). Then that money can be rolled back into the layout and aquire things I DO need. Many non hobby stuff just goes to goodwill when we do a house purge. Decluttering is a hassle and lots of work, but its such a relief when its all gone. Mike
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome
SeeYou190When I switches scales, I gave all my N scale stuff to about 10 friends.
I think it's been mentioned several times -- an alternative to selling is to give some things to a new modeler or a younger person who is interested.
If you're older, have enough stuff, and can afford it, it might be a good way to encourage that person to get started.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying that you shouldn't sell things; I'm just giving another possibility.
I can't tell you how happy I was to get an SGRR boxcar given to me when I first started out!
York1 John
York1 SeeYou190 When I switches scales, I gave all my N scale stuff to about 10 friends. I think it's been mentioned several times -- an alternative to selling is to give some things to a new modeler or a younger person who is interested. If you're older, have enough stuff, and can afford it, it might be a good way to encourage that person to get started. Disclaimer: I'm not saying that you shouldn't sell things; I'm just giving another possibility. I can't tell you how happy I was to get an SGRR boxcar given to me when I first started out!
SeeYou190 When I switches scales, I gave all my N scale stuff to about 10 friends.
Yes, I have given away more than I ever bothered to try and sell. And I have received gifts from other modelers who had stuff they knew I would use, that they no longer had need of.
It just spoils the hobby for me to think of my trains as a savings account or a profit center.
But I am that way with most things I buy.
Sheldon
I'm in the group as well of keeping my rolling stock roster to a certain level for now. As I happen to like HO freight cars of all kinds, I'll still acquire some pieces and can swap out what I like here and there but for the most part if it's not PRR, I'm not acquiring it, except boxcars that could be seen nationwide in my modeling time frame. I have plenty of locomotives as-is too.
Alvie
You say give it away, to who. Californians are not very social. It is not because they are stuck up but they are too busy, usedx to know many with two or more jobs before I moved.
rrebell You say give it away, to who. Californians are not very social. It is not because they are stuck up but they are too busy, usedx to know many with two or more jobs before I moved.
Just a guess on my part but if you advertise free items on HOSwap or a forum. You can advertise items to give away and just ask for shipping. Just saying...
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Well, I'm in a different camp.
I have kept almost everything I ever bought (I dumped some old Atlas brass track with fiber ties a few years ago). Even though I'm in S scale, I have kept all my HO and O as well as some N scale from my son. I also enjoy collecting some of the old kits that I find NIB at good prices. I may or may not use them, but I enjoy having them.
I have a 5'4" x 12' test layout where I can set up some track and run my old trains including some from my youth.
Paul
York1If you're older, have enough stuff, and can afford it, it might be a good way to encourage that person to get started.
I have sent quite a few things to a couple of the younger members of this forum.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
York1 i sent 6 pacemaker boxcars with metal wheels & kadee couplers to a kid in the bronx who i have talked to over the years hes 15 & loved trains , i didnt tell him i just got his addy & shipped them a few weeks later .funny hes 15 & from india so i cant believe he so deep into NYC history but i encourge him. SeeYou190 When I switches scales, I gave all my N scale stuff to about 10 friends. I think it's been mentioned several times -- an alternative to selling is to give some things to a new modeler or a younger person who is interested. If you're older, have enough stuff, and can afford it, it might be a good way to encourage that person to get started. Disclaimer: I'm not saying that you shouldn't sell things; I'm just giving another possibility. I can't tell you how happy I was to get an SGRR boxcar given to me when I first started out!
i sent 6 pacemaker boxcars with metal wheels & kadee couplers
to a kid in the bronx who i have talked to over the years hes 15 & loved trains , i didnt tell him i just got his addy & shipped them a few weeks later .funny hes 15 & from india so i cant believe he so deep into NYC history but i encourge him.
Back to the original, the purge continues, an Atlas engine and some Bachmann tank switchers still in shrink wrap from when I bought a case of them.