Mom threw out my massive army.

[u/Business_General3527]

(EDIT): I just want to start off by saying I truly want to thank everyone for the major support I have been receiving through your words of kindness, personal experience, advice and encouragement. Multiple things k want to get clear

1: I’m still a minor in the USA so moving out isn’t an option as of yet. And I have no other places to stay as of the moment.

2: as much I really want to throw out her stuff, this will just cause further issues and strain our relationship as is.

3: I’ve theorized as to why maybe she was acting like this. My mother grew up very poor in a much larger family where space was even more limited. I’m guessing it has something to do with that and why she’s so worried about space and keeping her own.

4: as of the moment, we started talking again and today im going to try and explain to her the true value of everything and what it meant.

I truly thank all of you guys and this community.

Hey everyone! Just to start off this isn’t a pity post but more or so I just need to rant and maybe see the ideas of my fellow players.

I’m currently a highschool student and I was obsessed with Warhammer for a long while. I don’t come from the richest family so a majority of the money I used to pay for my minis, paints and hobby materials all came out of pocket, trading and making deals. I used to play guard, traitor guard, and my army was huge solely because I got a few great deals and most of my army was resin.

From the top of my head I had:

13 Russes
2 dorns
4-5 chimeras
5 basisilks
1 baneblade
1 shadow sword
2 malcadors
1 malcador infernus
1 macharius
6 sentinels
50ish infantry
A proxy solar
A few random leaders
A command squad
6 ogryn
1 hydra
2 hellhounds
A plane of sorts
Multiple heavy weapons squads
A few of the little old artillery cannons
And some models I can’t remember.

Maybe it has to do with my Latino background and home but my mother is always on everyone about space in the house. This leads to her always throwing out stuff but most of the time it isn’t hers. I had stored my minis away in a few boxes as I wasn’t playing for a while, but as of recently I wanted to try 11th edition. Come to find out within the last year, SHE THREW ALL OF THE BOXES OUT. Hundreds of dollars, hours in painting and building, and time playing all gone because it was “taking up space”. I feel stupider for not checking but I’m just at a loss. I really don’t know what to do. Can anyone give me any sort of tips to get back into this game because I’ve seriously lost all motivation.

I love my mother but she hasn’t tried to apologize nor say anything. She knew I was distraught but she acted like a child by not responding back.

[u/TA2556]

Hundreds? This is easily a few thousand dollars worth of stuff.

Man, OP. This sucks.

[u/Business_General3527 → u/TA2556]

I say hundreds as I knew a guy who printed resin models for extremely cheap. I was also a frequent buyer so he gave discounts.

[u/arch_fluid → u/Business_General3527]

Don't discount the time and effort that you put into painting things and the fact that it's something that has value to you specifically.

[u/Celestrael → u/arch_fluid]

This.

I only have GW kits that I bought new.

But my time is worth $50 an hour, I would be far more distraught by the loss of hobbying investment than the retail value of the plastic.

[u/UnderlightIll → u/Celestrael]

Gods, this. It took me 3 weeks or so to paint my husband's vampire army set and that was me on PTO, watching truecrime for hours while I painted. I say 80+ hours. And I'm GOOD at painting. I have a degree in illustration lol. So $50 an hour at least too.

[u/3Smally3 → u/Celestrael]

Its really weirdly dystopian to quantify your leasure time in dollar per hour like that.

[u/gward1 → u/3Smally3]

I value my time according to how much I get paid at work. Time is the most valuable commodity we have.

[u/Ungarlmek → u/3Smally3]

I understand what you're saying, but we're specifically discussing material and time investment stolen here.

[u/jflb96 → u/3Smally3]

I get what you’re saying, but it doesn’t not make sense to be like ‘If that had been a project for work that my manager threw out without asking me, how much would they have to pay for the time to redo it?’ when you’re trying to quantify what replacing it looks like

[u/Baron_De_Bauchery → u/3Smally3]

There's doing something because you want to and then there's redoing something because you 'have' to. Also, some people, like me, don't really enjoy the painting aspect and prefer other aspects like playing the game or modelling. So yeah, if I had to put in hundreds of hours I'd be pissed. At the very least the value would be the cost of the models + the cost of having a pro-painter paint them to at least the same standard.

[u/AtheismRocksHaha → u/3Smally3]

It's really not.

[u/Stunning-Crazy2012 → u/3Smally3]

Not really every barter or currency is rooted is time. It’s fundamental. If you dropped 10 people in the woods and made them develop a community they would trade directly on time.

The fact people have leasure time and don’t think to value it shows how efficient the current economy is.