The wife says don't sell this one!

So, my other half has been pretty good about my bass hoarding over the years, even when I spent months without playing and still bought basses.

The current count is around 15 (I think).

Over the years, she has also given me a few basses as presents (xmas, burthday etc.), the last bass related gift was a Rumble 500C.

Anyways, lately I am trying to cut down on the amount of basses I own, replacing quantity with a few basses that I really want. The current aim is for a decent Jazz bass (I am pretty focused on a Sandberg California TT4), for which I planned on selling a few that I don't use too often.

One of these basses is the ESP LTD B-205SM. This was a gift from her, and although she has absolutely no issue with me getting rid of basses she gave me, she really doesn't want me to sell this one.

I don't play it hardly at all (I stick to 4 strings) and it just gets a clean and a check over now and again, but her reasoning is that it is the best looking bass she has seen.

I admit that I was very lucky to get the detail in the finish (it was ordered unseen over the internet), and the bass is excellent (even more so for it's price), but I really don't pick up a 5er very often (and when I do it is usually and ABG strung EADGC).

So, do I sell the bass anyway which would give me enough cash to order the Sandberg, or take note of my beloved wife on one of the rare ocasions when she gives her opinion on my basses?

 

Sorry, this is the bass...

(and yes, I must take a better photo!)

 

LOL, this one for nearly 20 years

Seriously though, she really isn't materialistic at all, I literally have to drag her shopping (even when it is for her).

She is more a "if you don't use it, bin it, sell it, or just make it go away!"

This is the reason I am thinking that I had better keep this one!!

 

Totally agree with you, and my favourite bass is the first one she gave me (Squier Jaguar Passive) and she went through all sorts of issues to get it (proving to me that she knew a heck of a lot more about basses than I thought).

The thing is, she has given me a ton of amazing gifts over the last 15 years we have been together, but life circumstances sometimes make it impossible to keep everything we would like to. When this happens, if we are not attached to the material things in life, but to the person, it makes it a lot easier to move on to better times.

I am not saying that selling the bass (especially to buy another one) is a necessity, as I have experience learning about what is essential in life and what isn't, I just know that neither my wife or myself are attached to anything we own, only who and what we are.

 

No, it definitely won't net me a grand, but the funny thing is, it will net me around $550 with used prices here!

(being approximately what I am short to pull the trigger on the Sandberg, which is probably the only thing that sparked this )

 

I was actually looking forwards to some carrot cake