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Anyone else here purchase expensive items like me to try and be more happy? I'll be the first to admit buying things seems to take away from other problems i have in life and makes me feel better.....for a short time. Then I end up wanting more because the happiness from material things doesnt last.


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That's the emotional part of the purchase.

I'm into cars. Grew up in my late teens getting into the tuner scene couple years b4 fast n furious movie came out. Did some hot import nights car shows, graduated to a large suv in the early 2000's with the dub car show scene and then decided to get into a luxury sports car in an attempt to remove the temptation to modify my cars. I haven't modified a car in 6 years (2 cars) so i guess it has worked. My purchases in cars and also bikes have always been an emotional purchase. At times, even stretching my financials pretty thin just to have it only to have that temporary joy of ownership blow away in the wind a short few months later. It's the main reason I have always modified my cars or bikes. That temporary feeling like I got something brand new to hold me over a few more months. I drive a luxury suv at the moment but within 6 months, I'm gonna go down to a very cheap and simple suv. I think I'm getting to that point of being over it. I haven't ridden either of my 2 bikes since like November. My 7yr old 1199 has just over 6k miles with probably 300 in the last year and my 3yr old dragster has around 1300 miles on it with probably 200-300 in the last year. My 3yr old suv has 12k miles on it. I simply just don't have the time to enjoy them like i used to. However, I don't see myself selling either bike. The emotional attachment is there n will stay there. The car, meh.....if I'm able to in the distant future, I'll get a nice car few years later.
 
gnance said:
Anyone else here purchase expensive items like me to try and be more happy? I'll be the first to admit buying things seems to take away from other problems i have in life and makes me feel better.....for a short time. Then I end up wanting more because the happiness from material things doesnt last.


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I am actually the opposite. I am terrified about buying things. The purchasing decision always makes me nervous and I don’t get any happiness from it. I can’t put my finger on why.

I usually will get something and scrutinize it for a long time. I will leave it unused for a while while I reanalyze and usually overthink it. Then, over time, I will start using it and bond with it and really appreciate it.

I cannot tell you the number of times that I have said to myself that I’m glad I bought something years after I bought it. I can say definitively that everything I have in this category (motorbike and sports car) I enjoy and appreciate much more now than at the time of purchase.

Even my daily driver, a 16 year old Volvo with close to 150k miles on it, is like that. People who know me well enough to know I can drive a new every day car like to make fun of me for not buying something newer. But the reality is that I am not going to buy a new car because I can’t justify it and every time I think about it, the thought turns me off severely. I would rather just drive around in an old Volvo and it's not even a remotely involved decision.

Purchasing big ticket items is not a joyful experience. It’s a real pain in the ass. However, when you have something amazing like a great Ferrari or Ducati or anything that you’re familiar with like an old friend, and there are those days where the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you sneak out of the house at 5:30a when the sun is coming up and you have all of those glorious hillsides and mountain canyons to yourself - days where you are hooting and hollering inside your helmet or giggling behind the wheel, and the smile you get lasts for days - well, those are why you deal with the pain in the ass of buying that thing in the first place. If you don’t have it in the first place, you can’t have those epic days and without those days, I'm kind of like, what's the point of it all.

Everything I have has kind of been accumulated over many years and I am believer in that the best way to build a nice collection of things you love is to not sell anything (hence why the purchase price is important to me). And everything gets used properly and overly maintained and I work hard to keep it all looking as new as ever.
 
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DucatiKev said:
Yup... except the Superleggera, that should only be used to look at while it sits on display on its motorized lazy Susan

use it as a fine piece of art, not as a motorcycle
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Is this artistic enough for you? :)

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I too am an over thinker so I hear you on that one! I drive myself crazy sometimes overanalyzing decisions. I am trying my hardest to get out of the habit of turning over things do fast and just keeping them. I know as you say that is the best way to build a nice collection. Between bikes and guitars it's hard lol.

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Sherpa23 said:
I am actually the opposite. I am terrified about buying things. The purchasing decision always makes me nervous and I don’t get any happiness from it. I can’t put my finger on why.

I usually will get something and scrutinize it for a long time. I will leave it unused for a while while I reanalyze and usually overthink it. Then, over time, I will start using it and bond with it and really appreciate it.

I cannot tell you the number of times that I have said to myself that I’m glad I bought something years after I bought it. I can say definitively that everything I have in this category (motorbike and sports car) I enjoy and appreciate much more now than at the time of purchase.

Even my daily driver, a 16 year old Volvo with close to 150k miles on it, is like that. People who know me well enough to know I can drive a new every day car like to make fun of me for not buying something newer. But the reality is that I am not going to buy a new car because I can’t justify it and every time I think about it, the thought turns me off severely. I would rather just drive around in an old Volvo and it's not even a remotely involved decision.

Purchasing big ticket items is not a joyful experience. It’s a real pain in the ass. However, when you have something amazing like a great Ferrari or Ducati or anything that you’re familiar with like an old friend, and there are those days where the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you sneak out of the house at 5:30a when the sun is coming up and you have all of those glorious hillsides and mountain canyons to yourself - days where you are hooting and hollering inside your helmet or giggling behind the wheel, and the smile you get lasts for days - well, those are why you deal with the pain in the ass of buying that thing in the first place. If you don’t have it in the first place, you can’t have those epic days and without those days, I'm kind of like, what's the point of it all.

Everything I have has kind of been accumulated over many years and I am believer in that the best way to build a nice collection of things you love is to not sell anything (hence why the purchase price is important to me). And everything gets used properly and overly maintained and I work hard to keep it all looking as new as ever.
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Deep Thoughts

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Sherpa23 said:
However, when you have something amazing like a great Ferrari or Ducati or anything that you’re familiar with like an old friend, and there are those days where the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you sneak out of the house at 5:30a when the sun is coming up and you have all of those glorious hillsides and mountain canyons to yourself - days where you are hooting and hollering inside your helmet or giggling behind the wheel, and the smile you get lasts for days - well, those are why you deal with the pain in the ass of buying that thing in the first place. If you don’t have it in the first place, you can’t have those epic days and without those days, I'm kind of like, what's the point of it all.
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There it is. Reason enough. Decision made. Congrats on your upcoming purchase of the V4SL [emoji1417] decisions cant be made on money alone, to trivial. They print more every day.


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Gnance,

What kind of guitars and music do you play? Don't wanna completely derail the thread but I'm curious. That's actually where my interest has been the past almost decade.
 
Sherpa23 said:
Purchasing big ticket items is not a joyful experience. It’s a real pain in the ass. However, when you have something amazing like a great Ferrari or Ducati or anything that you’re familiar with like an old friend, and there are those days where the sun is shining and the birds are chirping and you sneak out of the house at 5:30a when the sun is coming up and you have all of those glorious hillsides and mountain canyons to yourself - days where you are hooting and hollering inside your helmet or giggling behind the wheel, and the smile you get lasts for days - well, those are why you deal with the pain in the ass of buying that thing in the first place. If you don’t have it in the first place, you can’t have those epic days and without those days, I'm kind of like, what's the point of it all.
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This!^^^^^

I too seek that "emotion" where the sun casts that extraordinary goldenrod yellow hue (my favorite time of day) over the trees, shrubbery, grain silos and asphalt. Listening to the engine wind up and the aftermarket exhaust howl. Getting your braking just right, turning in to clip the apex, letting the suspension settle for a moment and firing off the apex and feeling like a pro racer in my head. It's the reason why I work so hard during the week and do all the chores on Saturdays.
 
The Avidmoto said:
This!^^^^^

I too seek that "emotion" where the sun casts that extraordinary goldenrod yellow hue (my favorite time of day) over the trees, shrubbery, grain silos and asphalt. Listening to the engine wind up and the aftermarket exhaust howl. Getting your braking just right, turning in to clip the apex, letting the suspension settle for a moment and firing off the apex and feeling like a pro racer in my head. It's the reason why I work so hard during the week and do all the chores on Saturdays.
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..."ain't that the truth" !!
 
double0 said:
Gnance,

What kind of guitars and music do you play? Don't wanna completely derail the thread but I'm curious. That's actually where my interest has been the past almost decade.
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Please no comments about the flag guitars. I'm a dimebag fan and collect dime guitars and havent a racist bone in my body.

In a potential deal to get a dime southern cross and two full band autographed guitars.....drool
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Oh ok lol very very different than mine.

I've got a mexico made hendrix fender strat and a u.s. made 60th anniversary commemorative strat and an epiphone sheraton ii pro.
I'm all about the bluesy/classic n psychedelic rock stuff. Hendrix, b.b. king, srv, clapton, albert king, etc. Thanks for the response.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program folks!!
 

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