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My wife keeps very close tabs on all of our expenditures. We have used computers in our home since 1978. We have used spread sheets since 1979 to control our budget. Having done this we were able to retire two years ago knowing exactly how much money we needed to live comfortably in our retirement years. According to our records I spent $7,000 in the past 18 months on model trains. The reason for this amount is due to building a completely new layout in a smaller scale. I was in G scale for years. But our retirement home did not include a large enough lot to continue with G scale. My new HO layout is about 90% complete now, just needs some scenery, and includes a Lenz 100 DCC system, 30 Tortise switches, NCE SwitchIts and many, many kit structures. All my loco's and rolling stock are new and this includes about 120 cars, 10 locomotives. So now my expenditures will drop to probably under $1,500 per year.
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