Is there a line and, if so, how/where do you draw it?

[I would go out tonight]

Edgar Laurel, I just got this! Funny

 

[Bern1]

Fascinating thread. I recognize something of myself in almost all the responses.

We all want stuff, until we (maybe) don't want it so much any more.

 

[Edgar Laurel]

So ..is there a line?
Personaly my line is where my comfort lies.
I can feed my addictions as long as it does not harm my general comfort and my daily needs.
So if a given addiction I have, a deep desire to have something clashed with my general comfort and future endeavors (which has never happened to this day) I would just quit the idea till I knew I could do it without further issues or thinking too much. If I can keep my needs + extras satisfied without any incoming worries I'm far from that line.

 

[jchance]

Addicting personality +2. My hobbies have evolved over the years and they currently include leather jackets. I don’t have a spending limit, but I’m frugal (I’d like to pay market for the item without feeling like I overspent). For whatever I’m purchasing, I’d like to be a sophisticated consumer and be educated enough to know exactly I’m spending it on. Without the knowledge and the ability to appreciate it, I believe i’d just be throwing money away at that point.

At the top of the game (take leather jacket for example), it’s mostly paying for the experience—of acquiring the item (perhaps custom or bespoke leather jacket), of keeping the item (it’s like a piece of art that brings you joy when you pass it every day, even if you’re not wearing it that day), of wearing the item. By the time you are bored of it and want to sell it, you’d already incur a financial loss. So what exactly are you paying for? The difference in the price you paid and the price you recoup from selling is the cost of “renting” the item in question for your personal enjoyment.

 

[Bfd70]

Almost 9 years. How did you land on that one?

 

[jchance]

Almost 9 years. How did you land on that one?

I was searching “only one leather jacket” or “too many leather jackets”. There are a variety of threads of the same theme, all approaching it from different directions, but they all converge at the same point. I current own 4 jackets, with possibly 3 more under consideration. Out of those 4, I am not wearing 2.

 

[El Marro]

I actually really like it when someone resurrects one of these long dead threads. I scroll through it and see the names of members who haven’t posted in years, many of them were quite prolific at one time and then one day they disappeared.
Take @Superfluous for instance, I miss that guy.

 

[jchance]

New people might have new takes on the old question and old members might have new thoughts to the same question after the passage of time and more accumulated experience. These are timeless issues that members run into all the time, simmering year over year and sometimes festering.

 

[zebedee]

A Thedi will soon be on its way, which will be the 13th leather jacket I own. I am intending to make it the final one, as I’ve been buying (collecting) these jackets for 16 years and will have owned, at one time or another, 20 of them. I haven’t ever bought more than a couple in a year and they are all Aero or Simmons Bilt jackets. When the Thedi arrives, that’s it for me: it’ll be exit time as I don’t like thinking about the savings I could have made if I’d just sensibly owned three at most. They’re also a pain to transport. I wouldn’t describe it as an addiction, but it’s certainly a bad habit.

I’m not entirely sure that I necessarily enjoy wearing any of the jackets more than a Rogue Territory Supply jacket that I recently bought: I’d never have bought 20 RT jackets, however. I think that what I’ve enjoyed (or currently enjoy) about the various Aeros and Simmons Bilts is their durability - I never worry about damaging them - but, given that each one is durable, why did I buy so many of those brands and not, say, Carhartts, Filsons, Rogue Territory? The strange nature of these things we do (or don’t).

One of these makers needs to design a jacket called ’The Exiteer’.

 

[jchance]

A Thedi will soon be on its way, which will be the 13th leather jacket I own. I am intending to make it the final one, as I’ve been buying (collecting) these jackets for 16 years and will have owned, at one time or another, 20 of them. I haven’t ever bought more than a couple in a year and they are all Aero or Simmons Bilt jackets. When the Thedi arrives, that’s it for me: it’ll be exit time as I don’t like thinking about the savings I could have made if I’d just sensibly owned three at most. They’re also a pain to transport. I wouldn’t describe it as an addiction, but it’s certainly a bad habit.

I’m not entirely sure that I necessarily enjoy wearing any of the jackets more than a Rogue Territory Supply jacket that I recently bought: I’d never have bought 20 RT jackets, however. I think that what I’ve enjoyed (or currently enjoy) about the various Aeros and Simmons Bilts is their durability - I never worry about damaging them - but, given that each one is durable, why did I buy so many of those brands and not, say, Carhartts, Filsons, Rogue Territory? The strange nature of these things we do (or don’t).

One of these makers needs to design a jacket called ’The Exiteer’.

Brave for you to say “final one” if you haven’t seen most of the jackets in the 214 pages of the linked thread below. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it.

Photos of cool jackets owned by others (non-brand specific)

So I got to thinkin . . . I often come across photos of cool jackets owned by others, and I struggle to find an appropriate thread to post the photos. Sometimes there is a brand specific thread, but other times there is not. Sometimes I am forced to start a thread for a particular jacket...

www.thefedoralounge.com

 

[zebedee]

Brave for you to say “final one” if you haven’t seen most of the jackets in the 214 pages of the linked thread below. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it.

http://[URL]https://www.thefedoralo...ets-owned-by-others-non-brand-specific.89923/

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Haha - the idea is to get the Thedi in and then quit buying jackets. I will try hard not to look for things I could conceivably end up wanting.

 

[Pandemic]

I’m a minimalist: I don’t want to own a lot of stuff. I o my want one leather jacket, for example.

The trouble is if I don’t have a lot, I want it to be good. I want a good dependable car and a nice jacket. Which jacket? Well, I’m probably going to be buying and selling jackets for the rest of my life as I try to figure out what ‘the best’ jacket is for me.

 

[Trouser Bark]

George Carlin once said that a house is a pile of your sh*t with a lid on it. We all have a tendency to buy bigger and bigger homes for a reason.

 

[AeroFan_07]

Brave for you to say “final one” if you haven’t seen most of the jackets in the 214 pages of the linked thread below. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it.

http://[URL]https://www.thefedoralo...ets-owned-by-others-non-brand-specific.89923/

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Exactly why I rarely if ever read in that thread.

George Carlin once said that a house is a pile of your sh*t with a lid on it. We all have a tendency to buy bigger and bigger homes for a reason.

I frequent Estate sales in this local area, I have made friends with several of the staff of these. I do it, as much as anything, to view how much I *Don't* need; and even less how much I really want. It is indeed interesting to see how much is left in a home after the owner has let their family come through and take what they want, and then it gets turned over to the sale company.

 

[MrProper]

George Carlin once said that a house is a pile of your sh*t with a lid on it. We all have a tendency to buy bigger and bigger homes for a reason.

Fortunately, that doesn't apply to me. If it were up to me, I'd have a tiny home ;-)
Although... for some people, I already live in a tiny home with my family. 4 rooms, just 100 square metres, nothing to show off, but I like it.