Two posts about Stuff and the accumulation thereof. Eric Olsen has been ordering his record and CD collection, and it appears that he is one of the guys from “High Fidelity”. He even owns up to a Bay City Rollers album! Meanwhile Bruce Baugh has been getting rid of Stuff, notably Roleplaying games that he’s never actually played, and finds it cathartic to get rid of stuff that’s got negative mental associations. And it also means he’s got room to move in his apartment!
I’ve probably got too much Stuff. Most of it is model trains, accumulated over a thirty year period, rather than extreme quantities of RPG supplements. I’ve managed to collect vast fleets of N gauge stock for two different countries (Britain and Switzerland), which will need two separate layouts to run them all on. And if I hadn’t gone into internal exile up north, I might even have got assimilated into the club’s O Gauge Borg, and started a collection of much bigger stuff. And I’ve still got quite a bit of TT3 rolling stock left over from my teenage years, still gathering dust at my parents’ place. I really ought to find a decent home for that lot, it’s not as if I’m ever going to build another TT3 layout.
I did actually sell a few surplus N gauge china clay wagons at the Maidenhead and Marlow Model Railway exhibition (And the guy that bought them complained that the wheels were dirty!), and there’s probably some further thinning I can do. It might be a good idea to dispose of anything British I can’t legitimately run on a West of England based layout.
Meanwhile, anyone want to buy a never used copy of 7th Sea? Surely the Tales from Topographic Oceans of RPGs, and one game I’m never going to play or run.
