I feel your pain brother. We too started out fast, and started a buying frenzy that only a couple of double incomes, no kids could maintain. When the first kid came along, and my wife quit her job, suddenly our collecting habits we're forced to change. We became "buy the ones we've seen" type collectors. Sure, we still have a handful in boxes on the shelves but most are displayed. Which brings up the next problem. Even at buying only the ones we've seen, I've got room for about 10 more lights. After that, I don't know what we're going to do. We may be forced to stop collecting.

At the Door County event, I mentioned to Kim that the size of the lighthouses we're getting too big. She seemed to say that the next introductions would also be big. I mentioned my dilemma, but I'm not sure she got what I was saying.

I guess we'll just have to see how it all plays out. The interest is still there, but I'm not sure where it goes after that. I won't buy them to keep in boxes that's for sure.

Mike