On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Cotty wrote: > On 18/9/06, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Cotty's on the right track, but we need to expand a bit on his logic. >> Buy stuff you'll never use. Heck, even buy stuff you don't want. >> Hold on to it for a while and then sell it. Let's say you buy an MX >> with a wonky meter for $50. As far as your wife is concerned, you >> only paid $30. Keep it for a month or two and then offer it to >> eekbay. If you can sell it for $50, you've just turned a $20 profit! >> Even if you can only get $30 for it you broke even. ;) And if your >> wife ever complains about too many perfectly good cameras, you can >> always say "But honey, I sold that MX a while back...." > > Excellent. > > Actually I think mine just became too bored to ask anymore. > > I have a male friend who married an accountant. She's tighter than a > gnat's chuff with money, but he's mesmerised by eBay. Accordingly, he > uses my Paypal account as a slush fund. He receives cold cash for > various things (doesn't go past his wife's impressive nose) and I > top up > his Paypal account accordingly so he can buy things from eBay sellers, > and gives me a small bung for the pleasure. > > It's just the opposite with me. Mine counts every penny but I have > cleverly steered her attention away from juggling credit card bills. > > It's all a question of timing ;-)
It's a question of scale, too. I recommend finding a hobby that also involves large outlays, but adds in the element of danger. Motorcycles, for example. Vintage motorcycles, even better. Lord only knows how difficult/pricy it is to locate the correct, =matching= set of fenders and tank for a mid- to late seventies ricer in-line four. You cop some on ebay, turns out they don't quite work for the project, so you resell them at your "corrected" price, and you then work on finding that accelerator pump assembly that, gosh, they only made for two years of the whole model run, and sure you have to get that set of mag wheels, but that means a new swingarm, the one that has the tab for the disk brakes that really didn't show up until the next year, or the F model that year.... And while all this is going on, boxes are coming in an out at an alarming rate, so all of them just get distributed to the garage, how hard can it be to slip a camera in there among all the other stuff? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
