Or, putting it in another perspective, looking at the collection and thinking
"how much time and money did I put into this lot!!? "*
I could be a concert pianist if I´d spent the time learning the Piano, a PhD scientist if I´d have studied some sort of science. Even Half the time painting etc spent just doing overtime or a second job* and I´d be able to afford a decent car and have money left over. The books I could have read!!
Still, all gone now
*and that´s not including 100 houses, a couple of castles, dios and the other stuff painted for other people. It takes ca. 5 hours just to create one house. One!!! Just one!!
Half of that comes out at 200 plus hours just for the buildings. I won´t even dare to do the calculation on that for an average wage.
Worse yet. The amount of stuff I´ve binned.
I´ve got a shoebox near to full of painted bods, nags etc, Projects that never got anywhere.
Buildings I´ve scrapped. Also, I can´t find my Celtic cavalry and chariots (about 50 of them) and I know there´s other stuff somewhere in the celler but I can´t remember what.