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Must resist the call of shiny new gear..

Have seen a terra nova competition tent, but i don't have a pressing NEED for it right now.

Why is it that this happens, am I a magpie or something??!

In reply to gingerdave13: Read Affluenza by Oliver James. Well, read the first couple of chapters as the rest of the book is kinda similar.

In reply to gingerdave13:

have you nicked one? If not then probably not a magpie, if so best not admit it on a forum.

In reply to dissonance:

I thought Scousers nicked stuff more than Magpies.

In reply to gingerdave13:

You'll be telling yourself it's an 'investment' next.

Mind you, given that most pf the financial products banks etc sell to the public seem to decrease in value, maybe it is.

In reply to gingerdave13:

No one needs a laser competition. After every MM we say we're going to buy a new tent but but somehow, it never happens.

This year, however, we've gone palatial with the Easton 1 Kilo!

In reply to dissonance: hah... definately not a scouser

In reply to gingerdave13:
I've recently taken to applying a test of "does it either replace something that's worn out or let me do cool stuff that I couldn't otherwise do" when I get gear lust, which has kept me to fairly sensible spending for the last couple of years.

In reply to galpinos: but but but,, I DO I DO!

was trying managed to convince the missus the other that we didn't need(well ok afford!) a canoe, so perhaps then blowing 100quid wouldn't be good!

In reply to Ramblin dave: i think it's displacement activity..

have a lot of things to sort out at home (not counting the water leak next week), cars etc

I do try and do the self test, but appear to be failing miserably.

In reply to Ramblin dave:

i sometimes use that approach although does have the downside that suddenly feel the urge to really stress test things or take a more relaxed approach to ownership and hence create the demand.

In reply to gingerdave13: hmm, i think i'm going to have to be doubly sensible, i'd forgotten that both cars need service and MOT in june...

yikes!

plus missus has started new job, so short pay month for her for may. grr

In reply to dissonance:

True, true...

But it helps a bit.

In reply to gingerdave13: If you're not into buying camera lenses, be very very grateful that you're not into buying camera lenses!

In reply to gingerdave13:

What AdrianC said. Little things, big things, we're conditioned to like buying things... it helps us define ourselves (or so we (subconsciously) believe...)

In reply to What Goes Up: There speaks a man from experience but thankfully not!

In reply to gingerdave13:

I understand how you feel being a fellow tentaholic. At one stage I only had 7 and eventually sold all but one. Sadly I've had relapses over the last 3 years and am now back up to 4 plus a bivi bag.

It's destructive compulsion and can lead to complications when your relationship finely breaks up and you move into a small flat with no storage or drying space.

In reply to gingerdave13: I am seriously lusting after a Delonghi esam 5600. A dream bean to cup coffee machine but at £730 I need to have a word with myself.

Luckily the wife has said no (for now).

In reply to gingerdave13:

I have a theory that everyone has one thing that they're able to 'justify' more easily than other things - clearly for Trangia it's tents, whereas for me it seems to be books. I slipped again today

In reply to Tall Clare:

For my dad it's CDs, he happily justifies it by saying it helps keep Record Collector in business in Broomhill in Sheffield, one of the few independents left in the UK.

It helps to keep him happy I guess, and he is right, though a guy on my drystone walling course pointed out any extravagance could be justified with that logic.

I get to peruse through his CDs so I don't complain (and I admire his self deception, he's not being weak willed but altruistic...). ()

In reply to Tall Clare: I seem to have a short attention span to activities (apart from climbing) so could need new kit for something, then in a year not be doing it again....

But it's just normally the ease with which you can get stuff on the internet and have it delivered to home. The age old: if you had to save, get the cash out and then hand it over when buying it, that purchase might not seem so necesarry!