Post by earthbalm on Dec 4, 2017 19:26:39 GMT
earthbalm , let me get this straight. You have posted on this forum looking for reasons not to buy a great guitar that you can raise the money for. It’s almost like you’ve never been here before.
Who are you and what have you done with the real Earthbalm?
I am one of those people who suffers occasional attacks of what I understand to be called Gear Acquisition Syndrome, more commonly referred to as GAS, in the futile belief that yet another guitar will improve my playing.
At the onset of GAS, I tend to do lots of research and internet window shopping to enable me to home in on the best deal for my chosen and by now essential next guitar. However, as a natural ditherer, when it comes to the point of commitment and actually parting with the money, there is a pause in proceedings during which time I slowly and reluctantly review and dismiss all of the reasons as to why I needed this new guitar and what it would do for me.
The outcome of this situation is that if I am successful, I ride out the GAS attack, do not buy the guitar so save an outlay of say £2k and based on the principle of money saved is money earned, that makes my contribution on this occasion to the household budget £2k. If you want to include the tax would need to be paid on earning £2k then I've actually contributed more.
As you can imagine, my financial contributions to the household budget per year using this method of accounting are significant and I believe it is also the method favoured by many politicians.
I understand this concept may not suit everyone so not buying guitars can also be done on a commission basis.