Depleting the spare parts box

It's amazing how fast the parts box gets depleted when trying to detail a piece such as you have done!  Before the layout began, I thought I had a surplus.  Silly me!

Packrat Syndrome

This is exactly the kind of behavior that perpetuates Packrat Syndrome - which I am also a chronic sufferer.  Never throw anything away, because it definitely will be EXACTLY what you will need someday!!

Interior looks nice!  You have quite a variety of stuff inside.

Packrat inherited

My father once bought a 1 gallon glass jar of spade lugs at a garage sale which must have contained thousands of them.  When I asked him why he bought so many he replied "Do you know how much they cost if you buy a pack of these at Radio Shack(tm)?"

This made perfect sense to me.  Dad had that jar for over 25 years and must have used at least a dozen of those spade lugs from that jar!  I was planning on inheriting that jar but my sister gave it away along with other valuable stuff.  I did inherit his packrat illness. 

Rick

pack rat syndrome

Kevin: I throw away very little. I keep all left over windows, wall sections, misc. parts from

           kits and turn them around in scratch built buildings for others and myself. I can not

           tell you how many backdrop building i have made with these left overs! That is

           where all the details came from in the MofW Building. I even keep scrap plastic, as I

           use it for building bases. I am not a New Englander yankee, but I act like one!

           Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St.Louis Rail Group Layout

There is no cure. Not yet, anyway.

Especially if there's a genetic link.  Some people develop this Syndrome spontaneously, and for others it's carried thru the generations.  Depending on the focus of one's syndrome, it can be relatively benign.  Certainly for model railroaders it's fairly harmless.  Their families generally can cope well enough.   Others don't fare so well and become the focus of cable-TV reality shows.

They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step toward treatment.

I have a 15-lb box of pop rivets......... from my dad.

Waste not, want not

... or a detail part saved is a detail part earned.

I save empty prescription bottles, peanut butter plastic jars, pastry clam shell boxes, etc. - They really get put to good use in the hobby. The pastry clam shell boxes are great for keeping the in process structure kit parts together and not scattered all over.