Tying and Moving

Well the little Lady and I are moving to a new home and I started the boxing. I went and taken my flytying desk and 4 storage cabinets apart and cannot believe how much fly tying material I have aquired in 10.5 years at this house. Now we are moving from a three bedroom 1 bathroom ranch to a four bedroom 2 bathroom ranch and have finally include that dining room we always wanted. So my home has incresed from a 1270 sq ft home to 1700 sq foot home. I am excited and will now have a 100% dedidcated flytying and music room. The wife will have her scrapbooking and arts & Ccrafts room and I will have a new home office and will have to add book shelves for the fly tying library. So back to the boxing I realized last night that I have enough Duck Quills in every color to tye enough wet flies for the next five years. I have more Danvill floss than you can imagine and will never need another spool and have multiple of every color made for life. I found spools of Japanese silk floss that was hid and realize I got everything I need for Salmon flies. I found more dubbing all over the place and realized I do not need to buy anything at all when it comes to dubbing. I basically found this to be the case in a ton of supplies for Dry Flies, Streamers and so on. I was amazed what I truly owned and realized I do not need to buy anything else except a few pheasent tails. I did realize I will need at least two new cabinets to store all my supplies away in a neat and handy fashion. I always knew I had a good batch of materials but never in my wildest dreams had that much. I consider myself blessed and lucky and can not wait to put the new tying room together in the fall after all the painting and carpeting is installed and completed. i plan to make this new tying and Music room to be beutiful, relaxing and most of all organzied since I get the time to do it correct from the start instead of adding here and there throughout the years. So if any of you guys ever want to know how much material you have, MOVE. You will find out quickly as you box it.

Great story. I don't plan to move and I know exactly how much material I have. Four storage cabinets, one tackle box and a couple of bags hidden behind the chair in my office/tying area... Now, what is in any of those cabinets and boxes is anyone's guess. I think the bags are full of tinsel. Could be some other stuff in the bottom of the bags. (Maybe I should contemplate moving...)

But you don't realize that people that sell new materials invent new flies in order to sell the new material - you aren't through yet.

"Never need another spool"
"Do not need to buy anything"
"Have everything I need"

Bwahahahaha hahahahahaha...ahahahahahaha hahahahahaha... How is this even POSSIBLE??? No way.

My question is: why would you put that in print? Now your wife has evidence!!!!!

having moved 11 times in 21 years in the service, I got to know EXACTLY what I had... still have boxes of "stuff" sealed up in the attic from 2 moves ago....

Hi moadiver:

How but we put a little wager on that. When I set up this fall you can come over and observe. As it has been said before, he who laugh's last, laugh's best.

You guys must realize that you, or your heirs, will have some planning to do. I've been tying for 60 years and have some buddies almost as old. You reach a point where you not only don't realize how much stuff you have but run into an even more extreme situation. We are constantly "upgrading" material items with specimens that are a little more perfect. We will never blemish them by actually using them. We now call these specimens "petting stuff". We just take them out once in a while and pet them. We have a disease. But it is fun.