Saving stuff

 As most of you know I moved to Virginia from California about nine years ago. I am STILL traumatized from that move. Yes the distance was long, and we moved from an urban environment to a rural one (I always say it’s Big City vs Small Town), but it’s all the stuff we moved! My wife and I saved tons of useless “Stuff”. She always likes to accuse me of collecting a lot of junk, but with the exception of the railroad, which to be honest is half of the total, her useless junk pile is equal to mine.

A great deal of it has to go to make room for the railroad, and YES, there will be room for this railroad. I’m going to begin shopping for casters so I can build a shit-pot full of rolling carts that will fit under the layout to wrangle this collection.

I made a very rough, ball park estimate of casters, four to a cart, and the price was in excess of $800! And I’m not sure that’s going to be enough. THEN I went on Amazon and found four packs of wheels for 1/4 the price! Still, with that savings it’s going to be $200+/-.

I think I have to have wheeled carts for this storage in order to better access this stuff when it’s stored under the layout.

I’m heading down now to do more sorting. I have to get some Salvation Army boxes going.

What we all have to do is stop saving junk. THROW IT AWAY. I’m not talking about the scrap box, but how many of us have every issue of Model Railroader back to 1973? And to be honest they are not that valuable. We all think we are going to build that structure or car we saw in an obscure article twenty-seven years ago. STOP IT!  You’re not going to. 

Seeing those ads from modelers selling bundles of magazines, or those inquiries, “What can I do with my past issues of Rail Model Craftsman?”.

Landfill!

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