Can you have too much gear ?

[OldNSalty]

If your spouse is upset by the amount of gear you own then he/she is probably not a diver. What I found was that after my wife got certified is that she hardly cares what I buy that comes from a scuba store now-granted, the majority of purchases have been for her but even the ones that are clearly not don't bother her as much. I have also found that she is not as bothered by me diving. She has not been able to go with me after getting her c-card because she has been ill but me, I go at least once a week.

Now I know when she gets to feeling better my cost to dive will double on most trips but I think that will be OK.

 

[Bigd2722]

"Can you have too much gear"? NOT YET

 

[buton]

I guess you might want to ask what you guys do for living to have gear first... Vice president of.? I lawyers? I doctors?

 

[a878bob]

Thank you brothers and sisters ! I'm feeling the love!

I do have a few more things but didn't want to seem boastful. Or maybe just a little bit of denial.

But clearly I need some more !

Scubaboard therapy ! Cheap at twice the cost or maybe twice the gear !

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

If your spouse is upset by the amount of gear you own then he/she is probably not a diver.

My wife once told me if I brought home any more dive gear she was gonna divorce me ... sometimes I miss her something fierce ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

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I guess you might want to ask what you guys do for living to have gear first... Vice president of.? I lawyers? I doctors?

I work at a poop processing plant ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Paulmal]

My wife once told me if I brought home any more dive gear she was gonna divorce me ... sometimes I miss her something fierce ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)



You made the right choice, wife's come and go dive gear can last forever.

By the way I am a grad student
Paulmal.

 

[dmoore19]

I only thought I had a lot of gear.

2 pair fins
1 BC
1 pair Booties
1 3mm wetsuit
1 top and bottom LavaCore
3 computers
2 watches
2 reg sets
1 camera set up (P&S) with 1 strobe and 1 video light.
2 masks
1 smb
1 knife

I am not selling any of it. I like it all.

 

[Paladin]

Every now and then I'll almost have myself convinced that I finally have enough gear, then I'll be looking on Ebay and...Ooh! Shiny!

 

[mdax]

I feel better when I express it by systems, helps reduce the feeling that it's a problem
2 sets for side mounting
2 sets for back mounting
2 sccr's
Suits so we can dive wet or dry, several days a week without putting on wet items
Enough tanks, stage, deco bottles and regs to do whatever dives we'd like without refilling
a couple scooters, lights and some extra bits here and there

 

[boulderjohn]

Somehow this thread reminds me of something I have never actually seen but have heard it in the proverbial sense: young men comparing parts of their anatomies.