I'm broke, selling my gear and loving it!

blipndub · #1 06-11-2007, 05:04 PM

Having a baby has made me see dollar signs in the equipment I've been collecting over the years and so I've been selling off stuff like crazy. Everything from basses to pieces and parts. The monetary return is fine (although you never get much back) but what I'm digging more is cleaning out all this STUFF. I used most of my basses, but it's good to have one that is my main and a backup. It fits with the sensibility of playing my pbass these days.

It's good to just keep it simple play one or two instruments well and learn how they sound best in the band setting. Changing basses all the time meant making eq adjustments all the time. Now it's just plug a play by default.

Selling this stuff off is the anti-GAS it's like Rolaids with booty.

Baryonyx · #2 06-12-2007, 04:54 AM

Rock on, bro.

rfclef · #3 06-12-2007, 05:01 AM

Conga rats.

babies rule, man. Keep an axe or two, and love your kid.

need4mospd · #4 06-12-2007, 07:52 AM

I woulda sold the baby.

Dragonlord · #5 06-12-2007, 08:39 AM

Well, if you decide to sell the baby, I know a few couples who would be very interested. PM me with gender, general characteristics and asking price (pm is better because I don't think it's safe to further discuss this stuff in public).

keb · #6 06-12-2007, 09:33 AM

There's something weirdly satisfying about a minimal (or even just a modest) setup. Personally, I like having just a small handful of instruments and really getting inside them and getting everything I can out of them. And too many choices is bad for me -- decision anxiety sets in and I'm always wondering "well, what if I used THIS bass on that one track, with THESE settings..."

Even if I was wealthy enough to use $100 bills as fireplace kindling, I doubt I would have a huge instrument collection -- I'd feel guilty about some of them just sitting there hardly getting played!

blipndub · #7 06-12-2007, 10:35 AM

Baby is not for sale. Thanks for thinking of that tho...

I'm sure when I have some more cash flow the collection will start to creep back up.

rfclef · #8 06-12-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by keb

And too many choices is bad for me -- decision anxiety sets in and I'm always wondering "well, what if I used THIS bass on that one track, with THESE settings..."
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Yep.... Paralysis by analysis... Happens when i try to buy stuff and there are too many choices...

anomalee · #9 06-12-2007, 01:04 PM

I sold everything i had except for one bass when my first one was born, 4 years later, I'm swimming in more gear than I've ever had.

Bard2dbone · #10 06-12-2007, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by blipndub

Baby is not for sale. Thanks for thinking of that tho...

I'm sure when I have some more cash flow the collection will start to creep back up.

*sighs* No. It won't. Fifteen years from now you willl still have the same one main and one backup bass and you will look fondly back on the days when you had enough money to have gear.

At least that's my situation.

Orco87 · #11 06-12-2007, 11:29 PM

It is pretty nice to get rid of items that you're not really using... as much as it might hurt, the after-effects are amazing!

I still have another item to get rid of, but I'm lazy/procrastinating on finding out how bad the shipping costs will be....

blipndub · #12 06-14-2007, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by rfclef

Yep.... Paralysis by analysis... Happens when i try to buy stuff and there are too many choices...

Just playing my pbass is great. I still have three jazz basses (one was a gift from Bill Nash, one was my first build, and one is a cheapo SX) so none of them are really sellable or worth the effort to sell (like the SX). Keeping with the pbass means I don't have to worry about eq settings during a set, I just blast away and it's great. I even sold my vintage fender guitar amp and I haven't missed it at all!

blipndub · #13 06-14-2007, 02:00 PM

and just because...here's the reason why. Ruth Virginia

Raum · #14 06-14-2007, 08:55 PM

That's what I've been doing with my CD's lately. I had a 400+ CD collection but regularly listened to about 30 of them. I've sold off somewhere around 100 to 150 CD's and put that money towards new skateboards, a new bass and other nice things. Just nice looking through my albums and not skipping over a lot of them looking for something that fits my mood.

rfclef · #15 06-25-2007, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by blipndub

and just because...here's the reason why. Ruth Virginia

Beautiful. Most important thing in the world. You're lucky.

RWP · #16 06-25-2007, 10:42 AM

Congratulations! Having kids sure changed my life too.

tplyons · #17 06-25-2007, 10:46 AM

I did that too, not because of kids, but because I realized I came back to the same bass, seldom used any effects, through one amp, and sold everything else. I realized I was sitting on a pile of potential cash, and decided to cash in.

Congrats on the baby, and being GAS free. Hope you saved some earplugs