Time comes every year, 11th November, “Singles day”, there will be a shopping bonaza on Taobao, although I’ve got laid off decades ago, this year I decided to splash out on some Hobby Boss 1/35 kits. The PLA Type 59 are new releases and the PT-76 and BMP-1 are items on discount, some 30% off the normal price.
A cunning plan was devised to avoid detection by my wife as she is counting my stash all the time and placed a ban on buying last year! So I’ll need to hide these newbies somewhere and start building quickly to clear out some stock!
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Welcome to the “No new kits by order of the wife” club. I’m a member for the past 6 months. It’s a rough life. I’m having a pre-order sent to a clubmember’s house where I can retrieve it at a meeting and smuggle it into the basement through the garage.
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I don’t know if you guys are serious about the wife and the stash thing. My wife seems not to care. She saw my stash and said, “You sure have a lot of models” and went on her merry way.
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I’m deadly serious about the wife/stash moratorium. She told me flat out, “You have more than you can finish (600) in your lifetime. And the basement is taken over and full. No more kits.” I value my marriage, so I’ve complied - to a point.
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Hi all, thanks for your delightful input, indeed my situation is similar to SSG Toms, seems that my wife reckons that I will not be able to go through my stash in my lifetime, hope that I can prove her wrong!
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Remember the acronym fellas - STABLE
STash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy
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I get that. I guess mine is not as large as y’all’s as I think I can finish mine if I can keep up my current pace and live at least another 20 years. But as I truly want to build all mine that is a pressure I’m putting on myself.
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Exactly. My wife doesn’t mind but does remind me of the acronym in so many words……
Then again her collection of shoes and clothes has reduced my half of the walk in closet to about 1/10th!
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I have a 4-foot rod for hanging my shirts and one shelf. My wife has the rest of the closet. Good thing I kept my college set of drawers.
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My wife is a quilter and has three rooms in our house devoted to it. I have one small room in the basement with far too many models in it. So, by mutual agreement I say nothing about her hobby and she says nothing about mine. It must work okay because we’ve been married for 48 years now!
Bob
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You got her by the quilts?
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Getting her a sidearm that she is trained and skilled in adds a different dimension to that. 
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My other half’s main concern, at the moment, seems to be,
how I’m able to fill, the recently collected display case so quickly, and back fill the gaps in the others.
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The Beauty of That is: The Kits don’t have an Expiration Date
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Well, that is both true and untrue.
The 1970’s vintage Tamiya Pz IV kits in my stash sort of expired when vastly superior Pz IV H kits turned up. The kits haven’t expired like an old cheese, fruit, bread or an old sausage expires BUT my desire to actually build them has severely diminished.
I’m not sure if I want to spend fresh cash for new tracks for those old kits but building them with their original tracks isn’t tempting anymore.
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Actually, The only part of an Old kit that does expire are the Decals; However, Older Armor Kits can be useful as Battlefield Wreckage…
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Yeah Ryan, you’re right again. I should have thought that through more when I bought her a pistol for her birthday. She loves it and she’s good at it.
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A cast iron frying pan or sharp kitchen knives can do a considerable amount of damage.
When you brought home one little kit too many and
thought you managed to sneak into the house unnoticed
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My wife has a full double closet in the guest room and more than half of the double in our room. And almost 1/2 the garage . I have about a quarter of the garage for a hobby bench. i have about 10 in my stash but shes ok with my hobbies as I am with hers , and she does her diamond art, painting ,jewelry , on the dinning room table. and crocheting on the sofa.
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Actually my private parts are more afraid of her meat tenderizer!
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