Stuff I didn't buy at the Outdoors Show...

[Kerne]

... even though I was sorely tempted - due to my conscience constantly asking if I really, really needed it:

An olive green Bison Bushcraft Guide shirt
A Barmah kangaroo hat
A Gransfors SFA
A Paramo smocky thing (£85 off but still £155)

This happen to anyone else?

(Actually - I have since decided to get the hat - no, I don't really, really need it but what the hell...)

 

[Jaysurfer]

I was very much tempted by one of the Hats also - was thinking the Crocodile but gave in to my temptation to a Gransfors Axe so couldn't justufy the Hat. Next month tho!

 

[JimN]

I didn't buy

• a Gransfors Wildlife Hatchet, couldn't see the point of paying the same price (almost) as for a SFA and I didn't want a SFA.
• an Alpkit Hunka, although I do regret not getting one of the seconds for £10

I did buy a Snugpak Chrysalis sleeping bag though

 

[decorum]

... even though I was sorely tempted - due to my conscience constantly asking if I really, really needed it:

Oh, yes .

Mind you, I talked myself out of something last year. On mentioning it (and being honest about the price :yikes: ) to swmbo I was told that I should have bought it - sometimes you can't win - they weren't there this year .

 

[Wink]

I didn't buy:-

A bamboo base layer (now regretting this)
A double Ventile second (Country Innovations Rover Jacket with no label) from the Keela stand for £50 (it was large, too big for me)
A Gransfors axe (if it came with the nice young Swedish lady making the knives I would have been sorely tempted)
A solar charger for my mobile phone (not too urgent yet)
A hog roast (Nearly an hour's work at the minimum wage)
Some Fjallraven trousers (need to save up!)
A really tasty knife from the Bison Bushcraft stand (er...£1200)
A pair of Alpkit Jeanius jeans (brilliant water resistant denim, but a bit trendy)

I did buy:-

Two pairs of wool socks
Venison mushroom and something else hotdog
Coffee
Car park ticket for £8 that nobody checked on the way out.

The last of the big spenders!!! (Still working on the first million, they say it's the hardest)

 

[Kerne]

Wink said:
I didn't buy:-

A bamboo base layer (now regretting this)

This is one of the things I did buy (from Mountain Junky) and wore it on Sunday on a long day in the hills where it performed well. So well that I think I might get a khaki version as well.

 

[Kerne]

(whoops)

I also ordered a hoody in NATO green from them and they agreed to supply it after the show (they had run out of my size) for £30 inc pp.

 

[John Fenna]

I resisted buying everything except some dehydrated icecream (Mmmmmmm!) and some Dried susage (MMMMmmmmmmm) - mind you I have organised some tasty review items to be sent to me for my magazine columns
All work......

 

[Wink]

This is one of the things I did buy (from Mountain Junky) and wore it on Sunday on a long day in the hills where it performed well. So well that I think I might get a khaki version as well.

I was wondering if they lived up to the billing! How does it compare to merino or synthetic? Any lingering dampness? At half the price of merino it seems a bargain.

 

[Kerne]

I was wondering if they lived up to the billing! How does it compare to merino or synthetic? Any lingering dampness? At half the price of merino it seems a bargain.

Probably not quite as warm as merino but no sign of smelliness and it didn't feel damp. That said, it wasn't the sweatiest of days. I really liked the feel of the fabric - almost silky. And it comes in sensible colours - og and khaki. I was advised to get the medium although I usually "go large" and it is a snug fit without being too tight. I might get a large khaki so that I can wear it a little looser in hotter months.

 

[sirex]

we went to the NZ expo, and ended up buying tickets for the outdoor show on the door to do both in the same day, was ace !

didnt buy anything though, but came away with 4 carrier bags of leaflets from the two shows combined, and that was just getting the ones that were likely to be useful.

 

[scrogger]

I didnt buy :- a very nice Knife which I fell in love with £170.00 Having bought a mora clipper until I become more adept at using one, at which point I might have a crack at making my own.

A Gransfors Axe again ill wait until I really need a good one and learn with a cheapo.

An exped down mat I was about to buy one when a guy who owned one told me a horror story about the last 3 he had had!!! (they look really comfy though and he might just be really unlucky)

I did buy (well swmbo did) herself a new Paramo Jacket! she got her self some alpkit t shirts, a fleece form Montane and a new Buff. I got a seconds hunka bivvy form alpkit for £10. cant help but think I went wrong somewhere!!!!!

Andy

 

[Minotaur]

The last of the big spenders!!! (Still working on the first million, they say it's the hardest)

I missed it again, so the thing I did not buy at the Show was a ticket.

The car park at the NEC is a license to print money. That is how you make a million, trap people, and give them no other choice. Us locals, know the score, so we use public transport, or shank's pony.

 

[Wink]

I actually looked at getting the train, but by the time it got there from Norfolk it would be time to come home again! Ho hum.

 

[decorum]

I actually looked at getting the train, but by the time it got there from Norfolk it would be time to come home again! Ho hum.

It's certainly a long day travelling and if the show leaves you wanting it could be considered a wasted trip, a wasted day and a waste of money ... that's partly the reason that I booked a Meet just down the road from the NEC. The Meet booking form's already gone in for the 2010 Outdoors Show Meet .

 

[sirex]

An exped down mat I was about to buy one when a guy who owned one told me a horror story about the last 3 he had had!!! (they look really comfy though and he might just be really unlucky)

the key to this is that he felt ok to buy 3 of the things at £100 a pop, so he obviously isnt giving you the whole story.

 

[Maverick47]

I've been using an ExpedSynmat7 over the Winter, superb piece of kit.

 

[scrogger]

lol just ordered one from Tamarack will let you know how I get on with it!!!