I'm going to have to stop buying guitars!!

[Slim Zooms]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I can see the pile of guitars over there in Sheffield looming over the horizon. .... and I'm on the south coast !

This has got to stop!

Seriously though, if it is just from your savings and the bills get paid, and you and your significant other have separate bank accounts, it's just a matter of storage.

I take it that you do all the hoovering, dusting and other housework?

I had the hands on hips experience way back in the mid '90s. My wife and I had an agreement that she paid for the food and I paid for everything else and that when I died she could sell them all , probably at a profit. She relaxed and now says I can have what I like as long as I can find a place to store it.

btw .. what DOES ground glass taste like?

Brilliant!

[Slim Zooms]

Originally Posted by TBman

We're supposed to stop? I didn't get that email.....

this is great!

[Kinda Old]

My last 3 guitar purchases have been impulse buys. I walk into a guitar store, pick one off the wall and after strumming the first chord I realize that this is my dream guitar, I must have it, and it will surely be the last guitar I will ever buy. I will deal with the consequences but I must have this guitar. My wife always has the same reaction. "They all look and sound the same to me" "I don't understand why you needed this one". Then she becomes quiet for a few days and life eventually returns to normal.

[thomasinaz]

This past week I was talking about a guitar I had in the shop, and one that I sold, with the wife. She said "I can't keep up with what you have, have sold or what you just bought".... I just grinned and thought to myself, the plan seems to be working.

[ChrisE]

[Mr. Jelly]

Originally Posted by johnbaz

Trouble is that I have around 40, They're in every room so she knows when it gets that bit harder to get in to a spare room or the kitchen!!


John

I'm going to go out on a limb here.


YOU WIN!

[leew3]

I seem to be in the minority in that my lovely wife is enthusiastically supportive of my purchases. That said, none of my gear purchases have any impact on the household budget as the money typically comes from consulting I do in addition to my full time job.

[RP]

I'm going to have to stop buying guitars!!

Yeh, me too. Let me know how that works out.....

[guitar george]

Keep going till you find "The One"!

[johnbaz]

Originally Posted by leew3

I seem to be in the minority in that my lovely wife is enthusiastically supportive of my purchases. That said, none of my gear purchases have any impact on the household budget as the money typically comes from consulting I do in addition to my full time job.

Hi Lee

I used to smoke 50 cigs a day, I topped in 2006 and couldn't believe how much money I saved!!

My 'Addictions don't interfere with bills or anything else actually just the rooms seem to be getting smaller!!


John

[Krash58]

Originally Posted by Mr. Jelly

I'm going to go out on a limb here.


YOU WIN!

Keith Richards wins! He has approximately 3000 guitars ! That means if he started his collection in 1960, he bought on average 50 per year !

[mike in lytle]

I came home with a Martin on a trade.
My wife said "it doesn't sound like a Larrivee".
The Martin was out of my house in exactly 41 hours.
A new Larrivee was ordered instead.
Cannot fight the wife.
I have seven Larrivees, soon to be eight.
I love my wife dearly.
Mike

[zmf]

Originally Posted by mike in lytle

I came home with a Martin on a trade.
My wife said "it doesn't sound like a Larrivee".
The Martin was out of my house in exactly 41 hours.
A new Larrivee was ordered instead.
Cannot fight the wife.
I have seven Larrivees, soon to be eight.
I love my wife dearly.
Mike

You surely do. Don't change a thing.

41 hours? Did you really time it?

[mike in lytle]

Originally Posted by zmf

You surely do. Don't change a thing.

41 hours? Did you really time it?

Aye. Got it off the Fedex truck at 4 PM Thursday, was out the door headed up the highway to the music store at 9 AM Saturday morning. I did get to play it for a few hours Friday. That is when the wife intervened, which was actually 30 hours ago. This is current events.
Mike

[Wade Hampton]

Originally Posted by Krash58

Keith Richards wins! He has approximately 3000 guitars! That means if he started his collection in 1960, he bought on average 50 per year !

It doesn't automatically follow that he bought all of those. What makes more sense is that he often gets given free ones from guitar companies who want to be able to brag: "Keith Richards is playing one of our guitars!"

I remember a new item from a few years ago where a guy handed Keef a guitar as he was stepping into a limo, wanting him to sign an autograph on the guitar for him. Instead, Keef thought the guitar was being given to him, and the limo drove away with Keef holding the guitar and the owner at the curbside saying:

"Hey, Keith Richards just stole my guitar!"

The guitar's owner filed a complaint with the police, the news item got published internationally and it ended with Keef returning the guitar and mumbling something like:

"Oh, sorry, man, I thought you were giving it to me..."

So if an incident like that could happen, that indicates to me that lots of folks actually DO give guitars to Keith Richards. I'm sure that he pays for some of the instruments he acquires, but I'm equally sure that he doesn't have to pay for all of them.


Wade Hampton Miller