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TMo · 02-01-2024, 05:34 PM

All hobbies are conducted primarily on spare time and in spare space. When you don't have either, you won't work on your particular hobby.

If I think about my life in model railroading, my free time as a kid evaporated with the onslaught of homework, after-school activities, part time jobs and girls (not necessarily in that order). I got back into it when I bought our first house, there was free space in the basement, and we had no children yet. Kids came, hobby abandoned until they were old enough to express and interest. Sold that house (trashed that unfinished layout) and built another house and (after 7 years of working on the house and landscape) started a new layout. Kids after-school activities got in the way. They graduated and went to college. Free time again! Opportunity knocks. There's still a big time reduction in the spring when I'm outside mulching, pulling weeds, golfing and mowing. But fall and winter - those are tailor made for this hobby.

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Poll: Did you stop because: You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
You've lost interest in MRR, but you plan on coming back	12.50%	3	12.50%
You're really not sure this is the hobby for you	0%	0	0%
You're frustrated because your sources are drying up and you can't find what you want	0%	0	0%
You hit a stumbling block and stopped until you can solve it	12.50%	3	12.50%
Something else has come up to take away your spare time	37.50%	9	37.50%
You're engaged with a different hobby right now	8.33%	2	8.33%
You've moved and there's no room for a layout	4.17%	1	4.17%
Something or someone else has taken over you layout space	4.17%	1	4.17%
It's too expensive and you can't afford to continue	4.17%	1	4.17%
Your mate gave you an ultimatum to stop	0%	0	0%
Some other reason not listed here	16.67%	4	16.67%
Total		24 vote(s)	100%