Steve, IIRC you have gone through a breakup and sad as that is please stop knocking women, its really peeing me off, deal with things and stop woman knocking.
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Selling gear is a real loss ....
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No doubt some thought so, others not so much.
Lets steer the thread away from 'woman bashing' please.
You really should go get that memory checked. I split from my wife over a decade ago and i dont ever remember mentioning it here. in fact, over the years i have split with many women and i dont know one who to this day would walk past me in the street.
I have no beef to grind with the female of the species. I was having a bit of fun...remember the days of fun rik..Maybe you need to deal with your all too obvious missing sense of humour issues.
Anyhooo...Back on Topic.
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I have fun everyday Steve, especially with my wife of well over thirty years, just cut out the crap when referring to women, its highly offensive. Be happy my wife is not a member here or she would verbally tear a new one into some of the posters and rightly so.
Aye ok, dont get yer panty hose in a bunch..Easily offended much??.
Congratulations on 30+ years of "fun" marriage. Still doesn't give you the right to bounce into a thread and demand i cease posting my own brand of humour or attack me personally. if you have a gripe PM me...
Ps. let me know when you reach Mod status. I might start listening to ya.
Well that outburst re misogyny kinda killed that bit of fun. I hope we do realise that being offended is ok, it should reinforce your stance in what you believe. However don't expect everyone to stop and take on your beliefs. The comments were a joke, I'm a huge believer in female emancipation but I still cracked a smile because he was saying to do things which you would never do, ah well I smiled at the time.
Anyway in an attempt to get back on track should you work on a 5 year no use get rid rule or should it be less? Sometimes I like to admire and own things for there aesthetic value rather than necessarily need which is why I have some knives, compass etc. I'm definitely leaving a note in my will 'sell it for what it's worth not what I said I paid for it', humour.
Anyway in an attempt to get back on track should you work on a 5 year no use get rid rule or should it be less? Sometimes I like to admire and own things for there aesthetic value rather than necessarily need which is why I have some knives, compass etc. I'm definitely leaving a note in my will 'sell it for what it's worth not what I said I paid for it', humour.
It got easier as the years go by. I've saved a few things for the sake of nostalgia (Pickett slide rule, Recta Prospector compass, etc) but very few. A little money towards the next adventure always helped out.
I had more than a dozen boxes of low-level electronics projects. I added RFE parts as I found them. One day, I consolidated them and took all to the electronics recycling depot.
I had to ask myself: "When, in the rest of my life, am I ever going to get arouind to finishing/using that?"
The best part? I have little recollection what I tossed. I sleep well. Sold 10 of the 12 shotguns I had. Only one sell that I regret.
I had more than a dozen boxes of low-level electronics projects. I added RFE parts as I found them. One day, I consolidated them and took all to the electronics recycling depot.
I had to ask myself: "When, in the rest of my life, am I ever going to get arouind to finishing/using that?"
The best part? I have little recollection what I tossed. I sleep well. Sold 10 of the 12 shotguns I had. Only one sell that I regret.
I once had a four bedroom house, I now have a 2 bedroom house. It's still the same house but I've converted 2 bedrooms into kit rooms. Some of my specialist kit only gets used once every few years but I have interests that only get practiced once every few years. However I will have a kit cull this year so look out for some bargains at the 2016 Bushmoot.
Selling stuff at a loss is like dropping money. You get that gut wrenching feeling. You backtrack where you have been knowing deep down it's gone, but you look anyway. After a day or so you get over it.
Talking of which, Himself found a fiver yesterday, and I've found £2.65 in the last couple of days.
Field walking fair makes the eyes spot good stuff
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Field walking fair makes the eyes spot good stuff
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I do my early spring grape vine pruning and sort through the rubbish 3 times to pick the best of the very best to start as cuttings.
Never bother with more than 100, I sell them in the local Farmer's Market on Fridays in the summer. The money goes into a beer mug on the end
of my dining room table. Very little labor, it's like found money for what I used to throw away (or pulverize with the mower.)
This summer past: started 72, 60 made it to new leaf-out. Kept 2 and sold out. $295 that I didn't have when the snow melted.
Bought stuff I needed.
Never bother with more than 100, I sell them in the local Farmer's Market on Fridays in the summer. The money goes into a beer mug on the end
of my dining room table. Very little labor, it's like found money for what I used to throw away (or pulverize with the mower.)
This summer past: started 72, 60 made it to new leaf-out. Kept 2 and sold out. $295 that I didn't have when the snow melted.
Bought stuff I needed.
Take it from someone who has been married for a long time - starting with 1) this is a bad idea. It gets better by 6)
10 or so years ago I sold a rifle (270 cal, 700 rem, harris bipod, redfield scope, hard case, loading dies) for a loss because I kept having very dark thoughts concerning a fellow I was having a business dispute with.... anyway, it still bugs me from time to time.
Good that you got over the Business partner. No bum is worth a lifetime in the clink.
I have sold guitars that i will never see again in my lifetime. Maybe my sons will pick up from where i left off and go find one or two of those instruments again.
I kept one Gibson SG Custom of 300 produced in 92. Will only be sold upon my death. No doubt i'll still be warm when it goes up for grabs on Ebay.
I think you're right spend more money on yr next adventure. I do have a hankering to visit a jungle.
It's all just stuff, and I don't like to hoard good gear that's no longer in use; for me, there's a degree of immorality involved as I always feel it's taken something out of use and denied somebody else the use of it......
I make an exception for things I've made myself as some of those I'd never want to be rid of.
I had experience, in a previous life, of people storing guitars in vaults and secure storage for many years in order to gamble on the rising value; all they achieved for the most part was to deny the use of them to others, and while stuff is in storage it just becomes useless lumps of "stuff" and has no practical use........Doesn't work for me.
I make an exception for things I've made myself as some of those I'd never want to be rid of.
I had experience, in a previous life, of people storing guitars in vaults and secure storage for many years in order to gamble on the rising value; all they achieved for the most part was to deny the use of them to others, and while stuff is in storage it just becomes useless lumps of "stuff" and has no practical use........Doesn't work for me.
Agree... it is just stuff unless you use it.
I have to admit to being slightly puzzled when it comes to certain collectibles... if you have the items on display, then it is almost like art (so it has a purpose) but the hidden away collections, as you say Mac, lumps of stuff.
There have been periods of my life where I've owned nothing more than a bag of rags, other times when I've had camera collections, statues and range of antique rubbish. Now I collect things that make me happy and that I use, or have a definite purpose for... makes for interesting conversations
I have to admit to being slightly puzzled when it comes to certain collectibles... if you have the items on display, then it is almost like art (so it has a purpose) but the hidden away collections, as you say Mac, lumps of stuff.
There have been periods of my life where I've owned nothing more than a bag of rags, other times when I've had camera collections, statues and range of antique rubbish. Now I collect things that make me happy and that I use, or have a definite purpose for... makes for interesting conversations
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