Can You Outgrow a Guitar?

[Tony M.]

I usually have 3 in "active service" and the others sit in their cases.
Every so often I take one of the Inactive ones out and rediscover it.
It then becomes an active guitar for a couple of months.
It's like getting a new guitar every couple of months.

Outgrow them?
Nope.
I have about a dozen now out of the 60 or so I have owned.
Tastes change, you part with one to make room for another.
Some just turn out to not be "keepers" after the honeymoon.
Sometimes you get lucky and find "the one" early on,
but that doesn't stop you from getting others.
Some people never find that magical guitar.

I got my "the one" on Feb. 1, 1969.
It was the 4th guitar I ever owned.
It's still with me.

 

[Deleted member 5962]

And yet it’s always fun to get some new pants.

But if you buy those ones with the expanding waist band, you may never have too! (See, I am thinking ahead. Some day, I'll notice that the wife just doesn't "look at me that way anymore." And trust me, when that happens I'm going straight to the store for a keg, and I'm taking the elliptical out to the curb on the way to the keg store! And I'm getting a bass boat. With a big Yeti beer cooler on it).

I think I just did what they call "retirement planning!"

 

[bodia]

But if you buy those ones with the expanding waist band, you may never have too! (See, I am thinking ahead. Some day, I'll notice that the wife just doesn't "look at me that way anymore." And trust me, when that happens I'm going straight to the store for a keg, and I'm taking the elliptical out to the curb on the way to the keg store! And I'm getting a bass boat. With a big Yeti beer cooler on it).

I think I just did what they call "retirement planning!"

Sweats.....my winter work clothes!

 

[László]

But if you buy those ones with the expanding waist band, you may never have too!

But then you miss out on all the new pants fun.

And hey, if your wife looks at you “that way” consider yourself lucky. My wife never looked at me “that way”, her look was more like “if I let you do this will you stop bugging me?”

 

[Deleted member 5962]

And hey, if your wife looks at you “that way” consider yourself lucky. My wife never looked at me “that way”, her look was more like “if I let you do this will you stop bugging me?”

Oh yeah, that's the look I was talking about.

 

[alantig]

But then you miss out on all the new pants fun.

And hey, if your wife looks at you “that way” consider yourself lucky. My wife never looked at me “that way”, her look was more like “if I let you do this will you stop bugging me?”

Wait - are we married to the same woman?

 

[László]

Wait - are we married to the same woman?

Depends on your answer to the following questionnaire:

1. How does your wife respond when you play music?

A) She boogies around the house and compliments me.
B) She sometimes says she likes it.
C) She mostly ignores my playing.
D) She leaves the house every time I play, so I don’t really know.
E) She calls the police with a noise complaint.
F) She threatens me while holding a weapon.

2. When you get a new instrument you...

A) Proudly show it to your wife.
B) Schedule the delivery for when your wife isn’t home, but you don’t hide it.
C) Have it delivered to your office, sneak it into the house, and hope your wife won’t notice it.
D) Sneak it into the house and hide it.
E) You have so many instruments, she’ll never notice.
E) Bury it in the backyard so your wife will never find it.

3. Your wife thinks you should:

A) Buy more instruments.
B) It’s your call, but she’s not happy if you bought a new instrument.
C) Stop arguing with her about why you need a new instrument.
D) Call a psychiatrist about why you keep buying instruments.
E) Call an ambulance if you bring another one into the house, because you’ll need it, Mister.

 

[Tony M.]

B
A
A

 

[Alnus Rubra]

F - if the weapon is another guitar
E - but the second E
E - I’m writing this from hospital!

 

[bodia]

C
A, B, C, D & the first E
Midway between A & B

 

[veinbuster]

B
Backwards A (she is probably showing it to me)
Sort of A, but she just wants me or Sergio to find them for her to buy

 

[Black Plaid]

B
A
A*

* Has to the right color.