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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
So umm in conclusion, everything's fine... no reason to jump out the window or anything like that.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
So umm in conclusion, everything's fine... no reason to jump out the window or anything like that.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I guess if I'd actually admonished the guy, he'd have gotten suicidal.


BOO!!


OK, just checking

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Originally posted by gambit123:
I have no reason to do it other then no use for them. What is everyone else's thoughts on this?

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Originally posted by Hangtime:
Maybe sell off the one or two you feel the least about. See how that goes and then decide whether to go ahead with more

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Originally posted by r0gue:
One of my most favorite topics ---

I'll take perhaps a less common view. I completely understand. I always sell things I don't use. Once in a blue moon I actually need that item again, but very very rarely. More often, it is a passing nostalgia or feeling that I wish I still had it, but in reality, even then I don't need it, and if I had it again, would likely soon sell it again.

I very much enjoy the faux-wealth of re-liquified cash. I often joke that I've been spending the same money for 20 years. In truth, there's very often a loss on the sale, but gathered over time, those losses to me are the cost of the enjoyment. Like a ski trip, or a golf vacation. My main passion now is watches, but I once greatly enjoyed collecting guns of various types. I've had some wonderful stuff. I now have a Glock 19. and a Ruger 10/22 youth that I may upgrade to a CZ452 very soon.

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (see signature line) isn't about minimalism for the sake of self-denial. In business or translated to "personal" application in one's life, it's about freeing resources -- time, brain cycles, people, dollars -- to do higher-value and/or more interesting things.

Collecting things is fun. I like to buy watches. But it's as fun for me to trip and tune down as it is to add. A casual chronograph trimmed for a casual diver watch that seems more fitting for the places I might go that suppose casual watches. Trim a Grand Seiko that I wear to work to add a Jaeger LeCoultre that I think I like more, which would also only be useful in the work mode. etc...

Two last quick thoughts. A friend's father once said (and it stuck with me), "The more you own, the more own's you". ...and finally, consider that if you owe money on a car, that could be paid by selling something you don't need/use/want, you are essentially financing that item at the rate of your highest % rate debt.

Hope that helps.