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meeeow

tractorboy wrote: Secretly I think she's just happy to know where I am most evenings though does get annoyed when I tell her friends that I spend most
nights on the computer looking at models.

I spend a lot of nights on the computer looking at models, but then in the small print it tells me I have to go down onto the streets and talk to them...

Ghosty.

My wife can go suck a brick!!!! She describes my collection as "those stupid toys", usually as she parades her latest pair of f****g shoes that she doesn't need!!! .....Not once have i moaned about her worthless collection of flip flops, sandals, stiletoes, wedges etc etc....not to mention her handbag collection!!!!!!..........HOW VERY DARE SHE CRITICISE ME!!!!!!!!!!

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zBret

It seems like not many partners support each others collecting habits - strangely I agree to a point .I do question my sanity at times ,who would spend like me £2000 /£3000 I honestly don't know - some spending vastly more and stick out of sight in the loft ? My only excuse to myself is that I am saving for a rainy day and my finds will be worth far more in years to come in effect an insurance/pension.

birdy wrote:My only excuse to myself is that I am saving for a rainy day and my finds will be worth far more in years to come in effect an insurance/pension.

Is that a correct thought though? Surely the biggest problem the hobby faces is the very small number of new, younger collectors. They must be put off by the prices, but another factor is that they didn't grow up with these toys like we did. They grew up with e.g. Star Wars plastic figures - currently a booming market. Therefore it wouldn't surprise me if prices were to fall back significantly in the years to come.

I think that's true Hugh the days of buying just for investment are coming to an end for older models as we old boys either aquire our holy grails or sadly pass on
It's the 80s toys that will be worth more in the next few years
For me just buying to make cash is not as much fun as hunting them down because you want it

birdy wrote:It seems like not many partners support each others collecting habits - strangely I agree to a point .I do question my sanity at times ,who would spend like me £2000 /£3000 I honestly don't know - some spending vastly more and stick out of sight in the loft ? My only excuse to myself is that I am saving for a rainy day and my finds will be worth far more in years to come in effect an insurance/pension.

A dozen or so years ago I took my ex wife Debbie to the Exeter toyfair. We had traveled down the previous day to get there for early entry, We were walking around the tables and Debbie had gone on ahead to check out the next table. When I caught her up she held up a regular wheel 1-75 and said is this a rare one, I told her to buy it and I would put it on ebay, She haggled the price down to £10, Imagine her delight when the following weekend the auction ended and it had sold for £120. She very quickly became an enthusiastic diecast collector, The model was a 26a with SPW in excellent condition.