# Saving Stuff for Later
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883 "2023-03-30T14:27:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/21 "2023-03-31T12:18:23Z")
> [@NinthAcolyte](#):
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> I have a whole stack of neat miniatures that just sit there. A “pile of shame” is a common ailment among mini hobbyists but it’s most common among the “gamer” contingent, people who buy the kits for their utility as game pieces and who consequently have to force themselves to paint them.
I have always wanted to try painting miniatures, but I haven’t pulled the trigger. Probably because I suspect it will be like every other craft project that I have sitting in a bin in my closet, waiting for the day when I pick it back up and start again.
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### Author:  [@NinthAcolyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinthAcolyte)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/22 "2023-03-31T13:17:25Z")
> [@Projammer](#):
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> Been there, done that. Get an ‘army of pawns’ and paint them.
I do okay! There’s a link to my instagram where I post my minis in my profile here. I’ve been painting for like 15+ years at this point, and some of my stuff has won awards. It’s entirely a psychological hang-up. XD
> [@Kron](#):
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> I have about 17000 points of Warhammer models… Of which I’ve painted three. Anything that resembles “art” is anathema to me…
There are some really fast-and-simple methods that produce really good results! Army Painter makes a line of spray basecoats and ink washes that produce simple but striking monocolor looks, and with only a little more effort there’s the “slap chop” method that makes full-color tabletop standard painting really fast and easy. (I realize after writing that all out that you probably know it all already, but damned if I’m going to use the backspace key.)
> [@TruePisces](#):
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> I have always wanted to try painting miniatures, but I haven’t pulled the trigger. Probably because I suspect it will be like every other craft project that I have sitting in a bin in my closet, waiting for the day when I pick it back up and start again.
No reason you have to go big with it! Find a simple kit and get a few basic paints and see if it’s to your taste! If not, no big deal.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/23 "2023-03-31T13:43:15Z")
My mother did this kind of thing. We all slept on cheap cotton sheets, generally faded out and worn thin, while the linen closet held a whole bunch of never used GOOD sheets. These were being saved for ‘special’ visitors. Like, I dunno, when QEII’s coach happened to break down outside our house and we’d have to put up the entire royal retinue? Needless to say, this never happened. (Not surprising, given we lived in a little Massachusetts suburb.)
When I was clearing her belongings after her death I eventually got to the linen closet. There were the tatty faded sheets she allowed herself to use on top of the several dozen never used ‘good’ sheet sets. The good sheets were all yellowed by time and faded on the exposed edges.
I gave the entire lot to the local animal shelter for bedding.
I’d like to say I learned from this, but not perfectly.
OTOH I have a thing that I don’t like to wear new clothes right away. Buy a new coat or dress or even new socks? Put it away in the closet/drawer. Only after it’s sat for a week or two do I start wearing it. Beats me why I do this. I think maybe it has to do with wanting NOT to be like my sister, who HAD to ‘show off’ every new possession right away, putting it on, doing spins and preening and acting like a model…
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/24 "2023-03-31T14:04:44Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
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> OTOH I have a thing that I don’t like to wear new clothes right away. Buy a new coat or dress or even new socks? Put it away in the closet/drawer. Only after it’s sat for a week or two do I start wearing it.
I do this also. To me, it’s like Charlie Bucket, buying his one bar of birthday chocolate and nibbling a little every day to make it last. I bought myself a blouse last week, washed it and hung it in the closet. One day soon, I will allow myself to wear it, but not yet.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/25 "2023-03-31T14:14:47Z")
Thinking about this a bit more: I am happy when I choose the item and buy it for myself. I am happy when I take it home and I possess it. Lastly, I am happy when I use it. It seems that people like your mom get stuck on that second step.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/26 "2023-03-31T15:53:47Z")
I don’t drink cheap liquor and rarely vodka, tequila or gin of any price point. I do have some in case a guest would like some.
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### Author:  [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/27 "2023-03-31T16:32:52Z")
Here is my current list. I firmly believe is supporting distilleries from my state, Washington, that is why there are 15 items from here.
2Bar Bourbon
3 Howls Backbeat Bourbon
Angel’s Envy bourbon
Barrell Bourbon Batch 022
Breckinridge Bourbon
Chamber’s Bay Bourbon
Copperworks Single Malt
Dry Fly Triticale Whiskey
Eagle Rare 10 Year Bourbon
Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon
Few Bourbon Whiskey
Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon
Heaven’s Door Tennessee Bourbon Whiskey
Jefferson’s Ocean Bourbon
JP Trodden Blue Label bourbon
JS Tallman Bourbon
Knob Creek 9 Year Bourbon
Maker’s Mark Bourbon
Michter’s American Whiskey
North Fork Whiskey
Old Forester 1897 Bottled In Bond Whisky
Redemption High Rye Bourbon
Rogue Dead Guy Whiskey
Russell’s Reserve 10 Year Old Bourbon
Sagamore Spirit Rye Whiskey
Sandstone Whiskey
Skip Rock Rye
Skunk Brothers Whiskey Road Bourbon
Sonoma Bourbon
Tincup American Whiskey
Traverse City Whiskey Co. Straight Bourbon
Valley Shine Benjamin’s Bourbon
Virginia Distillery Port Finished Virginia Highland Whisky
Westland Single Malt
Westward Whiskey
Whistle Pig Straight Rye Whiskey
Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon
Wishkah River Whiskey
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked bourbon
Woodinville Bourbon
Woodinville Rye
Wyoming Whiskey Bourbon
I will be adding 4 more in the near future, Bainbridge Battle Point Whiskey, Crater Lake Rye, Kirkland Small Batch Bourbon and Stein Rye.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/28 "2023-03-31T19:15:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> My daughter has always savored her dessert, taking progressively smaller and smaller bites. I explained to her about Zeno and his paradox because she does this. It started when she was three and she still does it thirty years later.
So she never finishes her dessert? Or never starts it? I don’t think the flying arrow one applies.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/29 "2023-03-31T19:55:03Z")
> [@xizor](#):
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> So she never finishes her dessert?
Pretty much. Splitting atoms would not surprise.
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/30 "2023-03-31T21:47:47Z")
Good list, one recommended addition would be [Pendleton](https://pendletonwhisky.com/)
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### Author:  [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/31 "2023-04-03T16:08:23Z")
I think, for me at least, it’s the excitement you feel when you have something that you really like or the buying possibilities you have (gift cards) that keeps me from using things right away. Once it’s gone so is the feeling.
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-stuff-for-later/981883/32 "2023-04-03T16:18:21Z")
Nope. Never do this. If I run out I get more, and if it’s a gift card it burns a hole in my wallet waiting to get used. We don’t do gift cards much so it’s not an issue. The urge to neaten up is stronger than any urge to savor. I also know that what I like eating/drinking/doing today might not be the same things tomorrow.
I don’t think about “for later” much. I collect nothing except things I am using currently.
About the only things besides family keepsakes I hold on to ‘in case’ are reference books and a few shelves of my very winnowed fiction collection.
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