Your Indulgence?

A friend said on Facebook earlier today that she's about to acquire 3,000 more vinyl records. I have no idea where she found that collection, but she's loading them into her truck as we speak.

 

My kid collects popcorn buckets from Disneyland. Sigh.

 

Craft beer. I cannot stomach mass market swill but I do appreciate the big brewer's willingness to market what they buy up, like Leinenkugel's.

 

I've been buying Air Jordans lately. Got a pair of Retro 1s and 5s. Will buy more as they become available on Nike's SNKRS app as I won't pay resale price.

 

My wife thinks that I have too many running shoes. It’s not that I often buy them. Much to her chagrin, I just never, ever throw a pair away.

One of my fairly uncommon indulgences is axes for splitting wood. I shun the big splitting mauls for lighter, more standard axes that have the weight and balance that suits me. I’ve lurked in off-the-beaten-path little hardware stores and have bought half dozen likely candidates which I reground and honed to make them work better. I stumbled upon an antique Remington axe which will never touch a grinder because I look at more than I use it.

My biggest splurge, so far, is paying almost 200 bucks for a Granfors Bruks Swedish small splitting Axe. But, that’s the one I use most.

 

Apologies if I've mentioned this before.

Not cheap, but I've been pleased with what I've ordered. The 33 1/3 remastered to 45 is quite good. YMMV, it's all in the ear of the beholder:

Dire Straits-Dire Straits-45 RPM Vinyl Record|Acoustic Sounds


Vinyl Record|Acoustic Sounds

 

Ooooh, thanks for this. Just poked around the site. This could get expensive.

 

Liberal tears.

 

A few things:

Fishing gear. I've bought more fishing gear that's never even been used than many people have ever used. It's an addiction that goes back most of my life. As a kid, the Sears Christmas catalog didn't hold a candle to getting the Bass Pro Shops catalog in the mail.

I pay monthly for Spotify Premium. That's what I'd consider my one real indulgence. I pay $11 a month for it, but I get far more use out of it.

Seems like it, but not ... coolers and running shoes. I have 5 RTIC coolers, but I use them all, and they all serve different purposes. I run exclusively in New Balance 990s. There are half a dozen pair around the house, but that is 6 years' worth of transition. They go from my running shoes, to my wearing shoes, to my beater shoes, to my lawn-mowing shoes, to my slopping in mud shoes, etc. When I get a new pair for actual running, the oldest pair gets tossed, and every successive pair moves down a rung. That's not an indulgence; that's just getting the most bang for your buck.

 

For you vinyl junkies. Think about this...

I have a friend who owns more than 60,000 vinyl records. No, that isn't a typo. 60,000.
He has literally bought out radio stations sight unseen. The crazy thing is he knows what he has. He has them cataloged in a computer database.
Of course, the dude is 56 and never even been on a date with a girl, so what else does he have to do.