Has anyone one here ever come to the conclusion that they have too many hobbies but just can not seem or want to do away with them & have just one.
In the past several days I have found my self going from this sight over to a farm toy sight then over to a antique tractor sight. I have been on so many I think I am losing track of what one I have what on. Then my other 2 hobbies start in Gavin 18 months & his brother Zack 7 yrs. I have been told by my wife that if I just stuck with one hobby just think of the collection I would have.
Trouble is I grew up around model trains & we lived next to a freight yard growing up so there we have the train bug… then we have the farm bug spent summers on relatives farms to help them out then received on top of the toy trains farm toys. Now both the boys are into the same thing for now. Our collection is a vast array of model trains, Rail road items, Farm toys & antique tractors.
But if they are like me they might leave it for a little bit but then what to come back at it just as hard. This can tend to make one think they are going crazy…[:o)]
Would love to build a building to house this all in & to share with others.
Yup, count me in that number[sigh]! I have collected Hot Wheels and car parts (for my car(s)) for many years. I finally figutred out it was time for the Hot Wheels to go. Both cars are up for sale as well. It’s gotten to the point I have so many Hot Wheels, I can’t remember what I have. They are all pristine and on the orginal cards…off they go… might be e-bay or consignment, just not sure which. Cars are on an enthusiast website/board. Just going to conceentrate on trains and if the cars stay, then just 1 car. No time for all this nonsense[banghead]
I have my trains, wanted to restore my grandfather’s 1969 Cadillac Sedan De’Ville, what to buy an old 1950 - 1965 Chevy Pickup and restore it. Love wood working (building furniture). Remodelling the house. And coin collecting.
Now I dropped the Cadillac restore because my parents won’t unload it to me and I don’t have a garage for doing the work. Also gave up the pickup restore for the same reason. I can just see it now… sweetie can I build a 4 car garage so I can restore cars and pickups? I’d become the fastest white boy on the planet within 2.2 seconds!
So I’ve settled for train collecting and coin collecting… well more like train collecting and looking at my coin collection. OH! And I’ve now combined my wood working with train layout construction! [tup]
People in this hobby sure are creative and dynamic. And doesn’t the train hobby encompass all sorts of skills and abilities? I guess it comes down to doing what continues to be fun and fits into your life.
I’m more aware of my limited capacity for hobbies in this time of life. I’ve more gone from one to the next, rather than maintaining multiple hobbies at a time. It helps me mentally to clear out the old to help pay for the new too [;)] Let’s see: in the past two decades, I’ve gone from collecting and playing ‘wargames’ to working with tiny ship miniatures to getting into n scale to my toy trains. I still write reviews of new games, and have moved from genre to genre with the layout.
Yup been there, One of my earlieist hobbies was keeping and breeding Livebearing fish mostly swordtails and platies. Livebearing fish eggs hatch in side the mother for those who are wondering what a livebareing fish is. Anyway I did not have the time to maintain several tanks and hatchery after starting at Devry in 88 and holding down a job. Collected stamps for a short time only have stamps with trains on them now. Also played and collected computer simulation/stratagy games not so much anymore. Through out all this the trains have been a constant[8D]
Hi! Sold my “Hot Wheels” on E-Bay. Used the $ for trains. Over the years…Tropical Fish…Postage Stamps…Fast-food toys…HO trains…Airplane and boat model kits…Now, O27 and Beach Metal Detecting.
without a doubt. my uncle is the preverbile packrat.he likes all kinds of old Chryslers,trucks,crawlers. and Harleys. He started collecting Chrysler 300s,old crawlers, and old hit-miss gas engines. then he started driving truck. gone alot. finally after all the cars,trucks have rotted to the ground, since he never got around to putting up a building, he’s sticking with the crawlers.
I saw myself headed the same way a few years ago. I had a '68 Charger, then got married, got a ;69 road runner, finally had a basement to do a train layout. got a new jo working 21 turn. had another kid. not enough time or $$ to go around. sold the Charger. I play with the road runner in the summer, and the trains in the winter. I pick up hot wheels/ tootise toy cars, but they’re part of the layout.
I’ve had many, many hobbies over the years (I’m 65), but fortunatly, no more than 2 or 3 were going “full bore” at any given time. It’s a blessing to be a “hobby person” when you retire. Joe
My dream building to house my hobbies would be something of a barn & train depot combined. Not sure how I would do this but that is what I would like.
I would have my shop & the antique tractors & farm toys on the bottom level, Having each tractor in something like a horse stall with the tractor, Toy’s & some memorabilia in it as well for that make.
Second level I would have all things train except for my semaphore that is a bit tall. So I would place that at the stairs going up to the trains.
I would like it to be a museum of sorts for my hobbies & a way to share the agricultural & toy train past. I do not want to fall into my dads steps he has too many boxes of trains for me to even want to guess at. But they are all boxed up & I don’t think he even knows what he has.
He is willing to share them but it takes him forever to find what he is looking for.
Yep, Lionel, HO, N, S, Hotwheels, Model airplanes (control line), plastic models, live steam, tools,cars (old Porsche 911’s). Don’t know what I’ve got anymore sooner or later I’ll realize it don’t really matter either!!!
funny I missed this post when I posted about my other hobby earlier. most of my interests have had to do with transportation. I have been into cars since before I can remember. I have a 1955 Dodge Coronet Lancer 2dr. hard top. I also collect
old bicycles.
this one works out pretty well with trains since during the summer we ride the old
bikes around and during the winter we play with the trains.
here is a photo of my '37 Fleetwood (sorry not a Caddilac):
Yep.When I got married I put the trains away and concentrated on Plastic Model airplanes.I enjoyed building more than running and couldn’t afford both. 3,000 model airplane later I have model airplanes and trains. When I got back into trains I didn’t have the nerve to ask for another room in the house so I built my train room as a seperate building behind the house.Luckily my wife has always been suportive and I was always home for the family.
Anyone ever have the baseball card bug? I do. During the 1980’s, I was buying so many of those things that I had to decide to narrow my collecting focus or invest in a warehouse. So I now collect cards of teams that no longer exist, i.e. St. Louis Browns, Seattle Pilots, Houston Colt 45’s, etc. Trains have always been my #2 hobby, buts it a very close #2. If any of you have any cards of the St. Louis Browns prior to WWI maybe we could strike up a trade.
I began collecting coins when I was in elementary school and stayed with that through high school and a little of college. It’s fairly large but now sits in the safety deposit box in the bank, haven’t looked at it in years. I guess I don’t have he heart to sell it, don’t know why and neither of my sons is at all interested in it. Maybe the grand kids someday?
The hobby I enjoy most (yes, even more than trains) is motorcycle touring and figuring out what the next mod to the bike will be. Sadly my wife will not ride or I would be on the road somewhere right now in a warm climate. Last year I rode about 15 K, all solo except for one trip in August when I met our son in St. Paul and we went around Lake Superior.
At one point while I lived in fl I had a 10X10 room for my trains and I also (mainly under the train table ) had a collection of salt and pepper shakers aprox. 6 -7 hundered sets not shakers lol. I had a store display cabinet in my living room with about 300 set of salt and peper shakers in it on top of what was in my room. And my wife said I had a railroad collection that would put PRR to shame ( I didn’t have that many then acually about 15 sets worth but she swore it was a lot more lol.
Gee, and I only have ONE set…a boxed set of Westinghouse front-load washer/dryer from the 1950’s. Saw it at a flea market for $10., and could’nt resist. Joe
