Well part (ok Most of it) of it was gotten using my wife's trust fund stuff, which is ok, that's almost what's it's there fore, to pay bills and mortgage. Just debends on your definition of bills. And her not really figuring out how much I used to put this together for our daughter.
Before I got disabled and no one would hire me, I could have done this all by myself with out anything else. I only wish I had thought about it back then, and not when I'm home sitting around bored, angry and feeling sorry for myself.
So do what you can now while it's still time, then you can have more time playing with them before the kids get them.
and you also end up with a nicer collection then mine, and not be embarrassed about having it or at least showing it off. I sort of didn't realize how important this forum was going to become to me, not the ideas I got after starting it and realizing that there really wasn't any way to see side by side comparisons (well in Magizines and catalogues, but even then not like mine) from all sides so anyone can figure out what someone else was saying when they talked about theirs.
I happen to really like and very much admire how some if not most of you are going about building your collections I keep finding things I would like to have or know from the things everyone posts. Sometimes I feel like I am the rabbit at the dog track, and you folks are the Greyhounds chasing me. Keeps me looking for as much as I can so I can hold up my end of what you folks are building here. I don't have the Skills or Knowledge to do what some/most of you do/know as simply second nature. But for now I can help with the show and tell part, and I am happy to do so. In some ways, I think of it as you all actually running our Forum, and I just try to keep it organized and help where I can. Seriously.