The best way to find something you have misplaced is to buy a new one![8D]
Had to do that many times. As soon as you get home with the new part, the one you were looking for will be in plain sight! Then you will not need the part for at least 10 years, at which time you won’t be able to find it again…
I am obsessive compulstive about organization. So everything has a drawar with a label. And most of the time I keep it pretty straight.
James
NO NO! you don’t understand. This has nothing to do with being organized, if fact the better organized you are the worse it will get… There are little things that hide stuff on people… and mess things up… I do sound as a business, and I can tell you that little gremlins get into boxes and tie cords into knots. The neater they are coiled and put into the box the more likely they are to come out of the box tangled. The same is true with things you save. The more organized you are, the more likely you are to misplace things… Doo, doo ,doo, doo. Doo, doo, doo,doo… It’s the little people, er… gremlins… Oh, you know what I mean!
Well the Little people and the Gremlins are the only friends I can count on reliably. As such we get along pretty good.
James
Funny this should come up. Our LHS ran out of them! During this Christmas season they have hundreds of people bringing in cars and locomotives with broken couplers to be fixed. They used up their entire supply. I found out they were raiding those little bags (with the alternate horn hook couplers) out of the high end locomotives. So I offered to give them the thousands I have sitting around.
Im also guilty. Allan.
YES!!! I cant stop saving everything.
ICMR
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I think I have it the worst
I saves all the old blue boxes from kits
horn hooks oh… yaaaaa…
I even have a hard time tossing out the old sprages
but its all in fun
Noticed there were quite a few members who just throw out there old hornhook couplers. Go to ebay and type in the word “couplers” in the scale you run, bet you get a big surprise. Last batch of 50 I sold brought $7.00 on ebay.
Some people still buy them, consider Athearn charges $3.00 for a dozen of them, 50 for $7.00 is a steal.
I have everything of mine changed over to Kadee’s now, going to sell off the rest of the old hornhook on ebay, since I am selling some other junk anyway.
i must confess i am a member of the brotherhood of packrats. as my vision has departed i have tried to thin the herd somewhat to at least a manageable
level thats means to where i can actually find the stored item i know i have somewhere. best regards john
I confess I too ama pack rat. Anybody want to throw out horn hooks let me know. I still have not decided to go kadee yet. Phil
You see! My pack rat ways are vindicated. I knew if I hung on to the old horn hooks they would prove to be useful. If not to me then somebody else. The old adage about one man’s junk is proven to be true. When it comes to model railroading, I don’t think there is any such thing as junk. I have no doubt if I had a boxful of brass track in my basement there would be someone out there who would open up their wallet to get it. Believe it or not, just before I moved about four years ago, I did have a boxful of old brass track.
I’m kind of sentimental about horn hooks. My brother and I bought a second hand HO 4X8 layout when I was about 12. Prior to that we had only seen Lionel and American Flyer stuff with knuckle couplers. The horn hooks looked strange at first but they worked fine. We didn’t know anything about operations back then and if you don’t do any switching, who needs KDs. On my last layout, all my freight cars had KDs but my passenger trains ran as a unit so I just left the horn hooks on them except for a KD at one end of the baggage car to hook to the loco. Anything to save a few bucks.
I’ve been throwing out my horn-hooks as I move to Kadee. But, the loop-and-hook couplers that were on the cars 45 years ago when I upgraded to horn-hooks? Those I’ve still got, somewhere.