You know you have a gear acquisition problem when . . .

[Benjamin Marks]

With apologies to Jorge --

You know you have a gear acquisition problem when . . .

1) you need to intercept the credit card bill before your significant other sees it;
2) you find yourself purchasing postal money orders so that your purchases won't show up on a credit card bill;
3) you have so many cameras that your spousal-avoidance strategy is based on the fact that she'll never notice the new one in the pile;
4) you plan on financing that "last piece of gear you'll ever need" with the sale of several other pieces that you don't use . . but you never quite get around to posting the older gear for sale;
5) [add your own here}

 

[r-brian]

5) When asked to list 'what's in your bag' you list 6 different bags detail 6 different complete systems and don't even start to list what's stored in the drawers.

 

[kmack]

When I die I want to take two banks and a credit card company down with me.

I see gear, I mortage the house (again), I buy gear, no problem.

 

[ch1]

You discover you're a daily poster to the RFF thread: "Just waiting for the mail, anyone?"

 

[clarence]

Denial.

Clarence

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Not just a river in Egypt.

 

[clarence]

They both may overflow and burst their banks.

Clarence

 

[zanydave]

Waiting on the arrival of my 2nd R8... Help! she gonna nail me to the wall

 

[sf]

When you sell your car and give up driving so you can spend that money on cameras and film and lenses. Insurance? No way! Gasoline? No way! Speeding tickets? Not anymore!

Now I ride the bus or ride a bike, and the cops can't touch me, and I'm not feeding the oil companies, or paying exorbitant insurance fees.

 

[KoNickon]

Wow -- this one hits close to home.

How about this:

5) You have all your packages of new acquisitions sent to work.

 

[lmd91343]

5) The entire den becomes your camera cabinet.

 

[reagan]

You know you have a gear acquisition problem when . . .

... at first you only needed one camera to be complete.
Then you needed a couple more lenses to complete the kit...
Now you need a couple more kits to complete the set...
After that, one more set and your collection will be complete. Okay, maybe two.

You know you have a gear acquisition problem when . . .

...your're not happy when the gear you want is listed at a good price in the Bay, because you don't own it. And you're not happy when the gear you want is sitting on your shelf, because you're looking for something else. So the only time you're really happy is when the gear you want has been purchased, but it's somewhere on a plane over the Atlantic.

...when your postman greets your wife with "G'morning" and greets you with either, "Not today" or "Yeah... it's here."

 

[JeffGreene]

You start looking for that old Super Ikonta folder to cannibalize the lens only to remember you sold it to acquire the non-working Canon IIB which had the lens you needed for your working IIB which .......

As Kurt Vonnegut said, "And so it goes!"

 

[ljclark]

When you sell your car and give up driving so you can spend that money on cameras and film and lenses. Insurance? No way! Gasoline? No way! Speeding tickets? Not anymore!

Now I ride the bus or ride a bike, and the cops can't touch me, and I'm not feeding the oil companies, or paying exorbitant insurance fees.

Geez...I pay over $600 a year in camera insurance, and a little over $700/yr in car insurance.

😕

 

[Jack]

5) You choose which of the five shooters to use on aesthetics as they are all the same model

 

[ywenz]

5) When you can't sleep at night and go back online to read that gear review/sample image one more time which convinces you go ahead and buy the said item.

 

[MP/CLE]

I resemble these collective remarks... is that wrong?

 

[back alley]

I resemble these collective remarks... is that wrong?

not that i can see...😉

 

[Eric Boehm]

"Oh, that one? I've had it a while now..." ;-)

 

[mikebrice@mac.c]

You decide that it is easier to get divorced then to keep figuring out ways to hind the habit; and then in the divorce, you give up the RV so you can keep the camera gear - and you think you got the better end of the deal.