How do you purchase REQUIRED equipment?

[rcs9250]

10. I got a P/T job at the LDS and get great pricing. Pay isn't anything to write home about but it pays for all the gear. I have never used my regular jobs money on my addictions. I used to skydive and did tree work to finance it and the gear. Hard work but it paid well.

 

[M_Bipartitus]

1. I've tired, it doesn't work very often.

2. I've done it in the past, but not so much anymore. A drysuit at $2000 off from Ebay is well worth the wait.

3. Not so much. Maybe if there were two cars and I could get home first.

4. I may have to try that one.

5. No, at least not intentionally.

6. "It sure would be nice to dive without bubbles." and "Did you know rebreathers have gotten safer?" didn't work last year.

7. Sure hope it doesn't come to that.

8. She dives, but I'm the only one wanting equipment anymore.

9. That pretty much sums it up.

 

[paddler3d]

#10. You can play up how it will make you safer and that you should upgrade, just to be safe...works in my house.

Then take your old reg and use it for a pony or future stage bottle.

 

[Brian Sharpe]

You grow a pair! :joke:

Just buy the stuff, I'm sure you'll be very comfortable sleeping on the sofa for the next month or so!

I'm insanely lucky. My wife actually encourages my bad habits the quid pro quo being that she too gets a couple of weeks a year visiting her country of origin.

 

[SolarStorm]

You grow a pair! :joke:

Did that once, went out and bought another motocross bike and I cant believe the fit my wife threw!? She actually said I had sell one of the other 4 I had? That she was NOT going to live in a house where there were motorcycles than people. There were some other words and flying frying pans so I did the honorable thing and bought her a new bike too. Then things just got worse, so I started with the "Asking (er discussing) thing first" I was just wondering how everyone else solved their life crisis's

 

[Garrobo]

Beanaz I control my own destiny and money, none of the above.

 

[Brian Sharpe]

Did that once, went out and bought another motocross bike and I cant believe the fit my wife threw!?............There were some other words and flying frying pans so I did the honorable thing and bought her a new bike too. Then things just got worse, so I started with the "Asking (er discussing) thing first" I was just wondering how everyone else solved their life crisis's

My wife was a little calmer when I brought home my 5th bass!

Have stuff shipped to the office!

 

[TSandM]

Well, as anyone who recalls the story of my switch to a brass and glass SPG, or the "f-ing thousand dollar flashlight" will know, I take a different tack. I announce my desire to change something in my gear, and then fight knock-down drag-out battles in my household for several months, until my husband tires of the whole thing and announces, "Do what you want, you're going to anyway" and flounces off.

Then a few months later, he buys whatever it was, because he's decided it's cool. Except for the SPG. I haven't won that one yet; he's still checking the time in Bangkok.

 

[SolarStorm]

I knew there were other people like me

 

[highdesert]

10. My wife/buddy and I certified together, dive together, and we still have exactly the same number of dives. Same BC brand (different models), same regs, when one of us needs a new wetsuit, or whatever, the other one uses it as a good excuse to get a new one too. I upgraded my regset with all Miflex last year ... guess what, wife's is all Miflex now too! It's worked great so far ... not gonna mess with it!