Sunday Sermon: Are your eyes too big?

Just the tip of a very large Iceberg!!!

Did your mom ever tell you your 'eyes were bigger than your belly'? Mine did, and I always hated the clearly biologically incorrect statement, it was truly bloody annoying. So I always wanted more than I could handle. But, you see, there's another saying, variety is the spice of life... so what if I'd often order way too much food, and nibble at each thing I'd ordered? Yeah, I was always one of those guys who struggled to decide what ice cream flavour to go for. I can't help it. If I have a choice of A or B, invariably I'll go for A, B and C. My hobby purchases aren't much different if I'm honest. Genuinely I can't stop myself from buying anything and everything that I think looks bloody cool. I then spend the rest of my life wandering how the bloody hell I'm supposed to paint it all. In many respects I've always bitten off more than I can chew hobby wise. In some respects being skint, and struggling financially has actually been a bit of a good thing for me.

More stuff in the 'to review pile'.

It has forced me to take stock of my hobby, and ask the question as to what I really want to get out of the hobby. I've had to slow down in purchasing stuff considerably for starters. What with bills and a mortgage to pay my hobby has taken a serious back seat to all the important real life crap we all have to deal with... like food and stuff. Coincidentally though this Blog has taken off and I've received a fair amount of free stuff too, which has sort of compensated for my reduced spend. This week though I started tidying up my hobby room, no correction, I sat and looked at the immense pile of hobby crap that I have amassed over the years and thought what the fudge was I thinking? It was all a bit depressing and overwhelming actually. I have absolutely no idea where the hell to start with it all. I reckon I'm not the only one out there in this bloody predicament. Come on, a show of hands, who has a huge pile of hobby stuff they're NEVER going to use? Yeah, thought so, it's most of us isn't it? Come on why do we all do it? Because we do, don't we?
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