took two weeks off to end the year with huge plans of completing most, if not all of my partial kits...painting is another issue... figured it would rain and I would be housebound, etc... well it stayed in the
50-60's the past two weeks with no rain so guess what...
Managed to finish just one kit, an old Italeri Hetzer that was started probably 5 or so years ago. Painting will probably take another 5 years.
What I found is that it took just two hours to finish the kit. now why did I not have two hours somewhere over the past 5 years?
probably bought 25 or so kits over 2007 so I am in the hole 19 kits more than 2006. So more clutter for the garage. Need reading glasses to read and build now so that will slow things down a bit, especially with the Revell Germany instructions that appear to be printed on thin newspaper.
On the subject of clutter and why its hard for some to unload things.... I've always wondered why we can easily drop $20-50 while eating out or going to movie, but when we buy something for the same amount, it is difficult to toss it away, as though a physical object has more value than a night out.. I see lots of partial models that will not get built, the small parts lost in some baggie somewhere, we try and get extra money back for a kit sold on ebay, etc. Do we keep things because we do not want to accept the fact that we are not gonna be able to get it done like we thought we would? We don't want to accept defeat?
I have a garage filled with physical things that really bring no pleasure, but are so damned hard to get rid of....
Now how to handle this quandry in 2008 is my resolution.....
Craig