Retail therapy.

[bass_dinger]

1 hour ago, Earbrass said:

I do miss GAS

I understand that sentiment, I think. 

 

For me, it is about the thrill of the chase - finding an obscure bass guitar, getting it restored, researching which piano I want. 

 

But once I have it all, I then need to sit down and play it, and learn to master the instrument.

 

Last night I opened up a box of stuff which I ordered from Kitronik.co.uk and got bored while I was taking it out of the box....

 

Retail therapy doesn't work well, for me!

[SumOne]

[DTB]

19 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

Right, but you derive no pleasure from having a warm house, yeah?

Ooooh that’s a bit harsh isn’t it? 😁 said with a smile and not nastily. 

[neepheid]

4 minutes ago, DTB said:

Ooooh that’s a bit harsh isn’t it? 😁 said with a smile and not nastily. 

 

Not at all, just pointing out that while on the surface of it, adulting is boring and awful, it's not as if it doesn't yield any benefit whatsoever.  It's just that sometimes those benefits/worths are taken for granted because they're not shiny or dopamine inducing.  If I'm guilty of anything, it's the terse way in which it was expressed.  Scottish stoicism at its finest, doesn't necessarily mean I'm being a meanie...

[DTB]

I get what you saying totally, but even though it keeps my house warm, and provides me with hot water, eventually, (i miss my old hot water tank), I would rather spend £2400 on music stuff than a new boiler. 

My last house related purchase was a washing machine because I ‘broke’ the old one washing my motorcycle rags that had fully synthetic gear oil on them and then everything else that got washed after stunk of oil. That really annoyed me because the money I had saved servicing both bikes myself was about the cost of the new machine. 

[SumOne]

21 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

I've recently spent a load of money on things that were just no fun at all. A new combi-boiler yesterday, car insurance the same day, and today I was off to the dentist to have a molar removed after it was damaged whilst I was getting a wisdom tooth taken out last year. 

 

I decided to spend some money on myself other than just paying these 'cost of living' charges. Well, I have been saying for a long time that I wanted a fretted jazz bass and the Flea signature model always intrigued me. I'm not a RHCP fan but the spec always sounded like the sort of thing I would enjoy and have a lot of use for. 

 

Bass Bros to the rescue. Let's hope it's as good as it looks! I bought a fretless CIJ jazz from them in October 2024 which I play all the time, so it'll be nice to have a fretted model to sit next to it. 

 

 

I'm in a similar boat:  Car insurance, MOT, parking fine, and root canal all paid in the last few weeks. It makes the cost of a new (second hand) Bass seem relatively insignificant, and is something that tends to hold value anyway so I'd sort of an investment.