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Saving Boxes

General Discussion
#1

Lots if folks have opinions on saving boxes. Rooster & John Bouck celebrate the destruction of LGB boxes and others just don’t have the storage. Fortunately, I do have the storage and kept boxes for almost everything on the RR. Since returning from the show, I’ve been dragging them out of the attic and loading them up. I can’t imagine moving all this without them.

Cars & track will go with the movers but locos will travel in the car with me. All but a few feet of track is up. This is a 1/4 bath. There is a toilet in there too…

I never realized how many switches I had as they were added over time…

All but 3 locos boxed & ready…

There are still locos and a lot of 1:24 cars to box, many of which don’t have boxes. None of the scenery has boxes so that will be a challenge.

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#2

I can’t imagine moving my RR. I have saved the boxes but most of my stuff was bought used so half are missing the box. I have also made several cars and engines and some of my buildings are HUUUGE!
Come to think of it, the RR would need it’s own moving truck and then there are all the tools ! :open_mouth:

Good luck with your move Jon.

#3

Thanks Todd.

That’s pretty much what our mover told us. One 26 footer for the house and contents and another 26 footer for the RR, garden and hobby tools!

#4

Funny but a mans gotta have his hobbies to help keep him sane.

#5

When I started down this road a few months ago I got some valuable advice from Rick Marty: Move it all and sort it out later! I have managed to discard nearly 3 tons of junk and sold off a bunch more, but there is still plenty left to sort out later!

#6

If I had saved my boxes since 1985, I would need a second used rail container by now to store them. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Most of my rolling stock is on the rails of friends and club members. They didn’t want the boxes.
Jon, I’m not biased, I smash them all: LGB, Accucraft, Delton, Aristocraft, Hartland, USA, Lionel… :smiley: :smiley:

#7

Light weight, how many mowers, snow blowers, brush cutters etc . :kissing:

#8

I think some :ant: are using them, I’m afraid to look

#9

if in need of boxes, ask a retailer nearby.
in our small supermarket/general-store we “produce” two to three pick-ups full of boxes ever week.

where i came from, peope said:
moved thrice equals once suffering a burned out house - concerning losses and damages.

#10

2 Garden tractors. This one went in the dumpster…

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2 Generators. 1 is for sale but no nibbles so far

The snow blower is an antique and it’s going to a collector

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And more tools than you can imagine!

#11

Jon; please refresh my memory…why are you moving in the first place ?
It seems that moving will cost you more than staying where you were…but of course that is your choice, and I hope all goes well.
Fred Mills

#12

Reason: To fulfill a long time dream of living near and working (volunteer) at the East Broad Top.

Cost: Yes, the actual cost of moving is high. In boxes alone we have spent a small fortune and we are too old to load it ourselves so we have a small mover doing the job - that is a big expense.

Savings: The taxes here are extreme and are going up almost 8% this year. In PA they are very low, in fact my annual tax bill will be less than 10% of what it is here before the increase. And the house payment will be less than 40% of what we pay now. We might actually be able to live off our income :slight_smile:

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#13

that’s the right stance!
while cheating at taxes is dangerous, evading taxes is recommendable.

#14

Thanks Korm.

Not wanting to be the grammar police, but I believe the correct English word is Avoiding, Evading is pretty much the same as cheating!

#15

thanks. i looked it up. avoiding, is, what i meant.
i translated it from spanish to english - both not my native languages.

#16

I’m always envious of people who are not just bilingual but multilingual. Korm, noting your closest post office is 300km away, I suspect you are fluent in Guarani as well?

My limited French and Spanish might get me some cheese, a beer and directions to the toilet.

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#17

No worries. I know English is not your first language :smiley:

#18

Even English, amongst those of us who are separated by a common language, can lead problems. One of my colleagues was needing to tape up moving boxes to come back to Oz and needed 5 boxes of packing tape. She had earlier mentioned to the clerk, she was going to be very very busy that weekend. She was after some Durex.

  • In Australia, “Durex” is a well-known brand of adhesive tape, similar to Scotch tape in the USA.
  • In England (and most of the rest of the world), “Durex” is a popular brand of condoms.

Reportedly there were a lot of red faces, and laughter that day.

#19

investigative minds might want to know, if it isn’t painfull to get rid of australian Durex after use?

hat, coat, door…

#20

nope.
two reasons - one, they have some soundcombinations, that transform tongues into cork-screws. - two, in the part of paraguay where i live, there were, when i came here, no guarani speaking people. only three western tribes plus mennonites. plus some handfull of spanish speaking paraguayans and argentinians.
nowadays i have to speak dayly spanish, low-german(mennonite) and german. plus reading/writing in english.
but all, but one, languages - that i ever spoke/understood/read - belong either to the nordic/germanic languages, or to the latin based - or both, like english.
the exeption was hebrew a very simple language, like playing with lego, only problem the different way to write it.
the most fun were the west-african versions of english and french.

learning foreign languages is easiest, if traveling alone in a country. looking tv, “reading” comic strips and taking up jobs as day-labourer.