Precisely. I haven't asked for, nor gotten, anything related to this hobby or any other of my hobbies, since I was in high school (class of 1982). Back then, though, I got each of Monogram's large aircraft kits, over the course of several years. But that was easy enough to ask. When I got back into modeling and painting figures, my tastes were so eclectic, and the sources so difficult for someone outside the hobby to know or understand, that I didn't ask for anything. Basically, Christmas was mostly a disbursal of my annual clothing issue. And now that my grandmother and my mother have passed on, I have to take care of outfitting myself. Not that it's expensive or anything, I just never thought about it before. Prost! Brad