Lost interest in toy soldiers (2 Viewers)

With my health I'll be lucky to reach 50. With my CV I'd be lucky to get a job scrubbing toilets.
Everyone I know is out of work now and more than half don't think they'll find work this year. Don't underestimate what the virus has done to the economy, especially in Illinois.
I think that people with good jobs or at least good credentials should keep working. Most people don't like to stay home. I think staying away from the grubby rat race, the amorality of the corporate culture and the vast expense of owning a car and eating at work and coddling coworkers is the only way to avoid burnout. I already suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. My survival depends on staying home. I think we will see more unemployment than ever before in our history, so things will get uglier still.
Anyway please enjoy yourselves and please stay safe. I wish the very best to everyone in the harsh world.
Happy collecting!
Paddy
 
paxtoysoldier said:
With my health I'll be lucky to reach 50. With my CV I'd be lucky to get a job scrubbing toilets.
Everyone I know is out of work now and more than half don't think they'll find work this year. Don't underestimate what the virus has done to the economy, especially in Illinois.
I think that people with good jobs or at least good credentials should keep working. Most people don't like to stay home. I think staying away from the grubby rat race, the amorality of the corporate culture and the vast expense of owning a car and eating at work and coddling coworkers is the only way to avoid burnout. I already suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. My survival depends on staying home. I think we will see more unemployment than ever before in our history, so things will get uglier still.
Anyway please enjoy yourselves and please stay safe. I wish the very best to everyone in the harsh world.
Happy collecting!
Paddy
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I agree with all you said. Having said this, I do not have a choice I have to work and put up with all that you mentioned, such is life. At the end of the day we all carry our cross through life, lighter for some, heavier for others and no one gets out alive.
 
Rutledge said:
63? Good lord. That’s still ridiculously young. I counsel people on retirement finances for a living. If you’re in good health you better have a nice sized portfolio to live off SS and savings for 30+ years.

Also, my experience is that most people are better off, mentally, working for well longer than they might really need to. It’s good to be an engaged member of society and have a purpose. Being idle and untethered may sound wonderful, but it is not healthy imo. Unless the job is digging ditches or some other deeply unsatisfying role, work is good for the soul.
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Yes on a serious note yes 63 would be early. People who don’t stay active degenerate quickly
I finished a book recently called the 100 year life. The expectation is the generation coming soon will live to be a average of 100. They will need to work two careers due to life span. The idea is you work one for money then one for pleasure or interest.

Paddy if your health is that bad I do wish you all the best all kidding aside.
 
I'm not offended. You can't be like me and expect not to be kidded at best. Yeah my health is that bad but I don't mind that anymore either, I'm even more used to that.
Best wishes to you too. Good luck with all your hobbies.
Paddy
 
After a good hiatus I'm glad to be back all be it in a small capacity of collecting...no doubt I got way in over my head trying to keep up with so many things ...I'm going to enjoy this time around for what it is...the enjoyment of collecting, not the the new release or the retired piece...not a certain brand..just what makes me happy.
 
Paddy, I admire your honesty. As they say we're here for a short time not a long time, make the most of whats in between!:salute::
 
sammy719 said:
After a good hiatus I'm glad to be back all be it in a small capacity of collecting...no doubt I got way in over my head trying to keep up with so many things ...I'm going to enjoy this time around for what it is...the enjoyment of collecting, not the the new release or the retired piece...not a certain brand..just what makes me happy.
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As my dad always told me, it's not how much you Earn, it's how much you Spend. He was raised in the great depression, back when you mended and made do. I've had to reduce my spending in view of reduced income over recent months, has finally brought that old saying back into my mind, looks like another depression is around the bend, if not here already. I've become very selective in my hobby buying, our suck a$$ currency conversion rate only adds to our hobby woes downunder.
 
warrior said:
much like al, i collect two things; books and toy soldiers, that's it.

Been that way since i was a kid, will always be that way for me, both are in my blood, i can never see a situation where i'd stop collecting either.

I recently ordered a two volume set on the fpw, can't wait to get it, it's long overdue, been almost a month now, also just today ordered some new 20mm fpw prussian cuirassiers, uhlans, french chasseurs d'afrique, french and bavarian infantry.

For me, half the fun is ordering/waiting for that package to arrive the other half is reading the book/unpacking the soldiers and admiring them.

One of the highlights for me as a kid was christmas morning and what would be under the tree in the way of toy soldiers, my parents and one of my aunts and uncles would get me all the latest and the greatest toy soldiers. When my dad died in 2017, i decided in his memory every year, i'd put in an order for some painted 20mm figures, when the box arrives, they go under the tree to be opened on christmas morning to keep that tradition from my childhood going.

Being in the business, i see collectors come and go, i know why they come, i'll never understand why they go, but the bottom line is it's an individual choice, we all have to decide what we do and do not collect.

It always pains me when we lose a collector, whether it be due to lack of funds, space, interest or death, mainly because there are fewer and fewer new ones coming through the front door to replace them, the hobby i love is slowly circling the drain and that is sad to me, something i never thought i'd see.

For me, the thing i love the most about toy soldiers and what keeps me going is all of the childhood memories, they are so special to me; when i got my anzio beach playset, my first airfix figures, airfix waterloo french infantry (i waited an eternity for them), the stunning coffee table book 'waterloo", my first painted figures at the wax museum gift shop in gettysburg, the first time i saw the gettysburg panorama (it was literally a life changing experience), the airfix waterloo playset (prussians!!), on and on it goes.

The childhood memories are great; looking forward to making new ones is great as well...……………………...best of luck to you chuck whatever you ultimately decide...…………….
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i have very very similar stories george, great to hear i am not the only one
 
I got back into toy soldiers buying gloss civil war generals from the guy in elizabettown kentucky. Then i discovered frontline glossy crimean range which let to getting all their ranges . Then i discovered trophy figures in 1995 and it was game on followed by wwii kc. I have slowed down considerably . Price and room were big reasons but i have another hobby developed the last ten years. I have over 4000 color football and baseball negatives that i make photos and cards out of and i send those out to get signed. I also give the players extras which they love and many call me and we have great conversations, they are players from the 1950's to the early 70"s. You only have so much free time but i love my armies of toy soldiers.
 
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