tough decision
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From: Arizona
Originally Posted by st_rage,Sep 7 2007, 04:30 AM
jal3lee,
You phrased your decision as a choice between spending $5k on FI or a watch. If you have enough money, then the decisions are completely separate. But since you're looking at it as either-or, and complaining that the turbo would be more than $5k to boot, I can only assume that the money is playing a part in your decision.
Expensive watches are owned by two types of people: rich people, and people wishing to appear rich. We've already established that you are not rich, because if you were you'd already have FI and a watch. You've just claimed that you didn't buy the watch to show off, so the only conclusion is: this watch isn't for you.
There's actually a third catagory of watch owners: gullible people. They've been fooled by advertizing to think that just because something is exquisitly engineered and crafted that it somehow hides the fact that it is as obsolete as a Babbage difference engine. These are the same people who buy diamonds because De Beers tells them that they are rare. Perhaps you have been hypnotized by it's beauty...snap out of it! Resist the dark forces of marketing!
You phrased your decision as a choice between spending $5k on FI or a watch. If you have enough money, then the decisions are completely separate. But since you're looking at it as either-or, and complaining that the turbo would be more than $5k to boot, I can only assume that the money is playing a part in your decision.
Expensive watches are owned by two types of people: rich people, and people wishing to appear rich. We've already established that you are not rich, because if you were you'd already have FI and a watch. You've just claimed that you didn't buy the watch to show off, so the only conclusion is: this watch isn't for you.
There's actually a third catagory of watch owners: gullible people. They've been fooled by advertizing to think that just because something is exquisitly engineered and crafted that it somehow hides the fact that it is as obsolete as a Babbage difference engine. These are the same people who buy diamonds because De Beers tells them that they are rare. Perhaps you have been hypnotized by it's beauty...snap out of it! Resist the dark forces of marketing!
Good stuff.
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I'm not unhappy that you're happy. But I'm not one to really care about watches, personally, I don't even wear one. I thin kI have a cheapy Citizen around here somewhere but it doesn't work well on a bike or in a job where I have to sometimes get my hands around sharp metal computer equipment.
I don't wear rings either but that's just a habit from when I used to work on a line crew way back in the day... Hell, I still turn my cell phone off when I walk into a room of servers.
Even my cell phone is a $8 POS from Virgin Mobile.
I walk around in ripped t-shirts and baggy shorts with a pair of Keens on my free time. At work it's a bit different with the $400 slacks and shirts but that's only for 1/3 of my life. The other 2/3 is spent naked are dressed like a bum.
But I still go home on/in a nice ride, have to go through my gated driveway secluded in the middle of nowhere, go flying on weekends, head down to the yacht, etc.
Some people like different things, if a watch is what does it for you, that's awesome. If it's a boat, plane, bike, car, cool. To each their own.
Personally, I think you would have been better off investing that cash in a CD, nothing like compounding interest.
I don't wear rings either but that's just a habit from when I used to work on a line crew way back in the day... Hell, I still turn my cell phone off when I walk into a room of servers.
Even my cell phone is a $8 POS from Virgin Mobile.
I walk around in ripped t-shirts and baggy shorts with a pair of Keens on my free time. At work it's a bit different with the $400 slacks and shirts but that's only for 1/3 of my life. The other 2/3 is spent naked are dressed like a bum.
But I still go home on/in a nice ride, have to go through my gated driveway secluded in the middle of nowhere, go flying on weekends, head down to the yacht, etc.
Some people like different things, if a watch is what does it for you, that's awesome. If it's a boat, plane, bike, car, cool. To each their own.
Personally, I think you would have been better off investing that cash in a CD, nothing like compounding interest.
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Wow......
2 points:
1. If you wear it you will break it. It may take a year, but eventually you'll scratch it or something, and be out 5,000 ish dollars. So it only holds it's value if it's somewhere safe.
2. If you're going to collect something, and I can understand wanting to collect as a hobby, collect something you can afford more than 2 of. A 2 watch watch collection is lame. I hear coins are fun, stamps too. Hey even fountain pens. I personally have a small collection of knives that range in value between 50-500. I can actually afford to buy a new one on whim.
2 points:
1. If you wear it you will break it. It may take a year, but eventually you'll scratch it or something, and be out 5,000 ish dollars. So it only holds it's value if it's somewhere safe.
2. If you're going to collect something, and I can understand wanting to collect as a hobby, collect something you can afford more than 2 of. A 2 watch watch collection is lame. I hear coins are fun, stamps too. Hey even fountain pens. I personally have a small collection of knives that range in value between 50-500. I can actually afford to buy a new one on whim.
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From: Land of Cincinnati Chili
Yeah but...... 5 to 6K of discretionary income will buy you some things that actually do something better than less expensive versions. A nice tv for example or a pair of good speakers, or maybe a pair of decent speakers and a nice amp. An expensive watch does nothing other than tell time as well (or perhaps not as well) as a cheap counterpart. It's like owning diamonds. Maybe it's just a trait that I don't understand because I'm not a woman.