Originally Posted by tabs (Post 9951058)

Ohhh geeez do I have to...you are going to make me aren't you?

Couple of weeks ago A TEAC R2000 reel to reel tape recorder $14.00. Works

Last week a pair of Danner Fort Lewis insulated boots 9.00, a pair of David Eden Croc slip ones for 12.00. A pair of Santoni oxfords 14.00.

Set of Titleist 690mb irons 16.80

Originally Posted by tabs (Post 9951434)

That is because you are RICH and SPOILED. If you truly needed a pair of shoes you wouldn't care if you had to pry them off the cold dead feet of a Leper. You are truly a poster boy for how America got itself into the mess that it is in.*

My Dad could certainly afford to buy a pair of Bally shoes, but it was only in the last couple of years of his life that he broke down and spent the money to buy a pair ON SALE. Yet for what he spent on one pair of Bally's back in the mid 80's I have 15 pairs of largely NEW Ballys.

If he knew that he could find Bally's in a Thrift or at a yard sale for a couple of bucks he would not be adverse to purchasing them. As a matter of fact a lot of people who live in toney neighborhoods buy used shoes... Figure it out, you buy a pair of $1200 Versace ankle boots for $12...you still have $1188 left in your pocket and nobody knows that you bought them in a Thrift for $12 when you are at a posh soiree in your toney hood. All that the people think when they see you is that guy must be really rich? And you are cause you still have that $1188 (and all the other $1188's) in yer pocket.

What it comes down to is that you gots the goods which you paid little for and would otherwise have had to depleted your bank account (at least a bit) to buy. Which means that you are all that much more rich, cause you still have the dinero in your pocket. Until you grasp that concept you ain't never truly gona be rich...cause the trick in staying rich is in how to keep it and also get what you want.


*A lot of old timers would not be adverse to wearing used shoes for themselves, but for their kids they would never impose that upon them...they wanted to give their kids what they never had (and thought they would be happy)..In that America created generations of spoiled and entitled people. "I WON'T wear someone else's stinky old shoes, I can AFFORD NEW ONES, I am a rich and prosperous American."

Americans lost sight of the fact that conspicuous consumption does not lead to happiness nor contentment. My parents Generation that grew up with out, felt as kids that if they only had that new pair of shoes they would be happy. They then gave their children new everything including shoes, thinking that would make their kids happy campers. It doesn't quite work that way, but what it has led to are generations of Americans chasing happiness through material acquisition.

Originally Posted by cmccuist (Post 9951514)

I bought this freezer at an on-line auction. I bid $75 and that's what it sold for. After looking up what it is, turns out it's a freezer that gets lab specimens down to -40 deg! Sells new from Thermo Scientific for $4,500. It's brand new, but has a dent in one corner and was returned.

Not sure what I need to cool to -40, but there it is!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520370070.jpg

Originally Posted by cmccuist (Post 9951514)

I bought this freezer at an on-line auction. I bid $75 and that's what it sold for. After looking up what it is, turns out it's a freezer that gets lab specimens down to -40 deg! Sells new from Thermo Scientific for $4,500. It's brand new, but has a dent in one corner and was returned.

Not sure what I need to cool to -40, but there it is!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520370070.jpg

Originally Posted by URY914 (Post 9951799)

I've been officially schooled by the great Tabs! What an A-hole you are. You know NOTHING about me. :p

Originally Posted by T77911S (Post 9952182)

that's a GREAT sounding amp.

Originally Posted by 87911jon (Post 9952844)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1520455329.jpg

Scored this for $1800, drives like a dream. Except for cracked dash, interior is a 9.5. Auto shifts amazingly smoothly. Even windshield squirters work! Bought it as a parts car for my M5 restoration, but too nice to cut up, so a friend is buying it for his daughter.

Originally Posted by E38Driver (Post 9960723)

http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc7xozlda.jpg

Just scored this for 3500 dollars. Snap On list is 13,700.

Dave