How to get rid of GAS ?

[pesphoto]

You should see the mountainous shoe collection we live with. I built a floor to ceiling "shoe mecca" for the fiance. Maybe I should post a photo of it.

 

[ch1]

You should see the mountainous shoe collection we live with. I built a floor to ceiling "shoe mecca" for the fiance. Maybe I should post a photo of it.

Is your fiance's name Imelda? 😀

 

[thanatos]

If it's anything like the shoe mountain I live with, you'll be needing at least a 16mm superwide.






On a medium format.








50 meters from the shoe mountain.

 

[reagan]

If it's anything like the shoe mountain I live with, you'll be needing at least a 16mm superwide. On a medium format. 50 meters from the shoe mountain.

You mean. . . hers is all in ONE room?

It's different at my house. You see, my Sweetness has got the total package; beauty, brains and BLUFF. It's a given in our universe that the necessities have priority. But somehow, she has wriggled shoes into the necessity of clothing category... a re-done kitchen into the necessity of food / roof-over-our-head category, and her car into the necessity of… well… no car/no her category.

OTOH, I can’t for the life of me squeeze not one Zorki into the necessities budget. So I’ve turned to another necessity… the necessity of "Stink-eye Lying." When quizzed about finances, I turn slowly toward her, cock my head ever so slightly to the right, just barely raise my left eyebrow, set my jaw firmly like The Man of the House, look her right in the eye and LIE __ LIKE __ A __ DOG.

I'm forced to lie ‘bout prices and credit card bills, the fact that my heart jumps at the sight of the leedle white postal truck and I really don't pay child support to my six children from three dashed marriages. I hide the damning evidence, cameras, lenses and shipping packaging carcasses, … and other credit card bills. (She thinks Oleg is a child in Calcutta that I adopted through Compassion International. "Aaahhh, that's sweet." she said.)

So we dance. She bluffs – I Stink-eye Lie (and buy, buy, buy!) 😀

But I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER tell her the truth about what I paid for a camera. That would break the Stink-eye-Lie Code of Honor!!

 

[pedro.m.reis]

(She thinks Oleg is a child in Calcutta that I adopted through Compassion International. "Aaahhh, that's sweet." she said.)

Man..... that must be a sin 😀, now go and give some €€ to your favourit benef. institution!!

You've just remember me that i'm waiting a package from Oleg... a IIIc, Fed-2, Z-4, j-8, i-64 and a i26 that went for CLA.....

 

[Mister_Hat]

My wife stopped at an antiques mart on the way home from picking up our daughter at college, saw an Argus C3 for $7.50 and bought it for me. Made me feel kind of guilty about not telling her about the Retina IIa that was coming.

 

[reagan]

You've just remember me that i'm waiting a package from Oleg... a IIIc, Fed-2, Z-4, j-8, i-64 and a i26 that went for CLA.....

Me too, a Leica.III for CLA. I have to decide on an explanation for Sweetness - how and why a sweet leedle boy from Calcutta is sending me a 70 year old Leica.

🙄

"I think he whittled it from wood in shop class at the Catholic school."

or

"It seems he won it playing marbles in the alley."

Whatcha think?

 

[derevaun]

I've found that a bad Ebay transaction can temporarily mitigate GAS. It doesn't seem to last. A riskier tactic is to attempt to repair the ones you already have. The benefit is that it uses up time and concentration otherwise spent parsing Ebay pages. The risk is that frustration will chase you into the waiting arms of Ebay.

 

[pedro.m.reis]

"I think he whittled it from wood in shop class at the Catholic school."

or

"It seems he won it playing marbles in the alley."

Whatcha think?

How about: "Look dear, this is one of that cheap copies of that expensive brand i told you about (leica) that sells for 5€ or less in cuntries like India or Russia" .... Well, that is my excuse..... 😀

 

[Kevin]

Reduce the number of cameras you have to no more than 10. Dedicate each camera to a particular film. Start at 50 ASA and continue up to 3200 ASA, in both color-neg/slide* and b&w.

(50) - (100/125)* - (200)* - (320/400) - (800/1000/1200)* - (1600) - (3200)

Cameras which dont perform well for its dedicated film should be swapped or sold.

When you start the day, decide which camera you are going to use when you leave home.

Then take it with you and shoot at least 10 pictures that day.

 

[freeranger]

Ahoj Ondrej, I sympathise with you totally. The Bratislava days are growing darker and, like a moth seeking light, I too am drawn to the welcoming screen of my computer....buy...buy...

However, I found a temporary cure:

Instead of bringing up the web browser, fire up excel; make a list of all your GAS purchases made within the past 12 months, including a column of the price you paid for your acquisitions.

Hit autosum!

😱

Now, this is very important: when you return to RFF to share your magical cure, do not look at the thread that gives you a heads up on the great bargains to be found on the Epson site.


I did say it was a temporary cure! 😛

 

[bgb]

Ahoj Ondrej,
GAS is to be enjoyed and celebrated it's not a problem but a gift. We get so much pleasure from the buying of little pieces of metal and glass how can it be bad? I just buy what i can afford and enjoy it the best i can, once the thrill is over i buy more and the good feeling comes back ... sell the ones you don't want anymore to buy for the new stuff.
Now that I have my Fed 2 I'm not really looking for any more stuff so I'm OK ... I don't even want a Leica anymore.
So maybe there is no cure ... I sure hope not, GAS brings too much enjoyment into my life
🙂