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My Late first wife was very supportive of my hobby. It helped with Anger issues and Disabilities as well. They were great therapy tools after I got hurt in civilian life! Did youknow that you can crush a model car without even cutting yourself? Yup, and it ain't buildable after that either. Took me fourteen months for her to put a model car in my hand and to just hold it there withought involuntarily crushing it.
There was a time when that question came up. Remember the articles about Imelda Marcos, from the Phillipines and all her shoes? My wife counted all hers and that included a bag( Large Black Garbage) That she was going to donate. She had Tiny Feet.
The largest shoe she wore was a woman"s size Eight! She was a tiny woman to start with, 5'1" in her stocking feet. It was hard for her to find shoes in the right size in some of the places we lived, So when she found some she always bought more than one pair!It Wasn't hard for me to find models though. She bought a pair of shoes I bought a model. Or so I thought.
When The models were inventoried for insurance I had as many models as she had shoes at 150! Over the years we both slimmed our stashes because of living conditions etc. When she passed i gave away 165 pairs of shoes to the womens shelter! My models then took up half of a two car garage.
Now that I live in an extended family situation, The stash has hovered at 125. Some form out of storage and the rest added to since I have lived here. Oh, and that includes an eighth of the Garage with LEGO stashed in there. To Be honest, I really don't know just how many I have. I have four large boxes of cars in the backyard storage shed too. I wonder what they do in the dark. Why? Well, although it was some years ago, I sold off five large storage boxes of cars and two garment boxes of planes at a model show.They filled a 3/4 ton van. We left with four models I had traded for and a fistful of money. Now, I am having to figure out new ways to stack them. Hmmmm. Time to thin again I think!