My Wife Poses the Ultimate Question

[Spidey2112]

If you buy a bass from GC or Sam Ash & get a new pack of strings throw in, they won't ask for those back when you return the instrument 44 days later.

This is definitely a pro tip...

 

[Bullitt5135]

"Do you really need another purse?"

My wife jokes that if I get another bass, she gets another parrot. I just say, "Fine with me, you get to deal with it." She knows I'm right. The parrots are WAY louder and more annoying a bass. I'm up to 7 or 8 basses in my collection (I think). She's lost track of the count too. Every once in a while, she'll see one and say "where did that come from?" I'm lucky though...I don't go crazy and I have the financial means to make an occasional vanity purchase. She trusts that I won't do anything completely irresponsible. I suppose if you are flying closer to the ground, financially speaking, you need to pick your battles carefully.

 

[DoctorZee]

Get her on Talkbass and make her read 115 pages of debate about "P or J?" It will eventually break her will.

 

[murmur70]

My wife and I have an allowance system where we both get the same amount of spending money every month. We don't get to say what the other gets to do with their money.

 

[lokikallas]

When storage becomes an issue I get some grief, but not the money, because it's my personal savings. I've saved up my "allowance" I buy what I want.

 

[dbase]

My wife says I just cant have another bass amp head ... no reason whatsoever.
She says tubes are outdated. Shes thinking TV's and radio ... she just don't get it ... I cant convince her. It's a dead end for me.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Remind her that there are lots of worse things to spend money on in this world.

 

[gln1955]

My wife has a high end sewing machine, a quilting machine and a serger (wharever the hell that is). She just bought another sewing machine used for making sails - VERY heavy duty apparently. She has way more inversted in her hobbies than I do in my basses. You need what you need and if you can afford it, why not?

 

[blakelock]

My wife and I have an allowance system where we both get the same amount of spending money every month. We don't get to say what the other gets to do with their money.

exactly. calculate your budget. give each of you an allowance out of what's left. you spend yours however you like and she does the same. yea! bliss!

 

[ScottfromCalgary]

I've gone on a recent purge and am down to only 2 players (P and a J) and 1 for nostalgia (my first bass, a 1980 aria pro II RSB-600). BUT, when I was still buying and adding to the collection I would just let her know which of my current basses was going to be sold right after the new one came in. One or two weeks after the new one showed up and the aforementioned sale was usually long forgotten, or else she would just say 'you might as well just keep them all'.

 

[Hahaha]

With your meanest Clint Eastwood impersonation say: "Need's got nothin' to do with it." Then pull the trigger on that new bass.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Try this one-

"I'm buying hard assets as a hedge against inflation for when the economy tanks again..."

Thank You Very Much... I'm here all week.

 

[Jimmy4string]

I thought the ultimate question was the actual inquiry behind the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ultimate Question was sought after the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed the Ultimate Answer to be 42.

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

Last year I bought a new bass. A fretless Fender, sight unseen and despite not having played fretless in a serious manner. This was predated by selling off 1 bass (I had 2 for sale).

I put the basses up for sale because I hadn't used either in literally 10 years. Ironically, the one which did nog get sold is a cheap fretless. Anyway, when I ordered the new fretless I talked it over with the misses. Told her I hadn't bought a bass in 7 years, I had the money and I was pretty confident that I would be a proficient fretless player. And she got to decide between sunburst and black

 

[MojoPenguin]

You can sometimes get away with it if they're different; short scale, frettless, five string, strung with flats, strung with round wounds... that sort of thing

Busted lol

 

[Nashrakh]

"If you really love me, you'll let me buy that bass."

 

[zon6c-f]

So after several purchases over the past 18 months, my wife finally said those words that we all really dread, "Do you REALLY NEED another bass?" Now I know this is a running joke for those of us with chronic GAS, but now I actually have to defend myself with a foolproof response (I am in the process of ordering a custom made J-Bass). I am seeking the ultimate stone cold, show stopping, mic drop answer to this question. I like creativity and thoughtfulness with perhaps a sense of humor.

SOOOOOO TBers, lets have it

As it is written...Love one spouse and many basses and rigs ..

 

[BigAlBass69]

My wife of 36 years told me she was putting her foot down, and if I waste any more money,
that could go into the household, on another bass, she would leave me.
And I said to myself on the way to GC, "Man, I'm sure gonna miss that woman!!!"

057912

THE WINNER!!!!!!!

 

[BigAlBass69]

THANKS GUYS

 

[basted]

The BL demanded I play a red bass. What choice did I have?