How do you pay for SCUBA?

[jeckyll]

Hmm, you think it's expensive when you start...

Then you realize you need a drysuit... then you move to doubles... then you realize you want / need a canister light ...

Really, I could stop anytime I wanted... I just don't want to ...

 

[letterboy]

Hmmmm what she doesn't know won't hurt ME!

~~SNIP~~

The rest is just my occasional "play" money from our general fund...she likes "Longaberger" baskets, I like dive gear!

HMM I think I will adopt this philosophy. . .

BTW Does she have a room just for baskets? or does she buy baskets to put inside of another basket because they look cute together? :huh:

 

[TheRedHead]

Really, I could stop anytime I wanted... I just don't want to ...

Sure, you can. Just keep telling yourself that....

 

[cmufieldhockey8]

Hmm, you think it's expensive when you start...

Then you realize you need a drysuit... then you move to doubles... then you realize you want / need a canister light ...

Agreed! I've had to pick up a part time job in fast food for that can light! :shakehead

 

[JerryCan]

I take the money out of my savings account, am I in trouble now ?

 

[Doubles]

well - I'm a rent-a-geek (computer consultant) and like TRH - I have sold my soul (but always to the highest bidder)

Thank god for all those vcr's blinking 12:00 across the globe.

(ya know computers are just machines that add 0's and 1's and have a tv screen attached to them)

Kids are gone, the military pension doesn't hurt either.....

Hijack follows:

Hey LetterBoy thanks for serving! Oh and btw the wheel doesn't work well if it were missing a cog...so each cog is very important

Cheers

Steve

Edit - Me and the Mrs were pretty well off right up until we took that resort Dive in Cairns Australia a few years ago - been close to bankrupt ever since...but it sure is nice u/w

 

[DivingsInMyBlood]

Im a bricklayer so i dont do too bad (only a 2nd year apprentice) wife works from home in the nail business, no kids yet and i really have to work hard to help make the wife understand that i NEED to buy gear for diving.

 

[Doubles]

i really have to work hard to help make the wife understand that i NEED to buy gear for diving.

Oh you just need to take her diving with you...... Be sure to tell her that all that gear comes in a variety of colors

 

[SkuaSeptember]

Expensive is relative - for the cost of a weeks vacation to most places you might want to go you can buy a pretty decent set of gear and then take a whole lot of one day diving vacations! It's also not any worse than a really good set of clubs and greens fees at a nice course or ski gear and lift tickets.
Since I wasn't taking any expensive vacations to give up and already had kids who were addicted to eating and wearing clothes I took a PT job bartending to buy my gear. And more classes, and more gear, and more classes,and more gear, and my IDC & IE. Now it pays for itself with a little left over at the end of the year. It has also paid me back with a lot of wonderful experiences and some truly great friends! You know, the kind you actually do trust with your life. As they say in the ad, PRICELESS!

 

[Buoyant1]

HMM I think I will adopt this philosophy. . .

BTW Does she have a room just for baskets? or does she buy baskets to put inside of another basket because they look cute together? :huh:

It's a good philosophy..she has no clue WHAT I really own (well it was tough when I bought the two steel 119's....not quite as easy to sneak into the house as a mask or a light! )

Yeah...it's called our whole house! If they made a basket that hid the commode, I'd have splinters in my butt!:11: