Making choices

As the decluttering gathers pace, I have been having to make decisions as to what will go into store for the medium to long-term, and what I will keep in my toy/wargame room until we have sold up and need to move home.

One thing that I have not put into store are my books. These are a useful source of information and inspiration that I want close at had as well as 'decorating' the room by their presence on the bookshelves. I also want to cull my book collection, but I want to take time to do this and so will probably leave this until our house is on the market.

My recently-built model railway layout (and all the locomotives and rolling stock) is also not going into storage. It does not take up a lot of room and can easily be stored in my toy/wargame room by resting the board against one of the room's walls.

I have also decided to keep one of my figure collections out of storage ... and decided that the Belle Époque one was the most obvious choice. It is relatively small, there is work that I can continue to do on it, and it will provide me with the opportunity to have the occasional wargame when the mood takes me. It is also likely to be the collection that will form the basis of my future solo wargaming projects in our new home and is therefore the obvious candidate for being readily available before and after we move.