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| hulkster:
--- Quote from: abrannan on April 14, 2004, 01:44:51 pm ---Personal opinion time.... Wait. You've got a cab. You don't (as of right now) even have an apartment, let alone a house. You're getting married. This is not a once in a lifetime auction. Set aside the money you'd spend on a cab and put it toward a down payment on a house. Get yourself established: A job, a house, start an IRA (take a look at how much $100 invested at age 20 is worth when you retire and how much $500 is worth invested at age 40). Pay off any credit card/student loan debts (better credit score = easier time getting a better mortgage = bigger house = bigger game room). Retrofit your cab. Add swappable control panels/rotatable monitor/whatever. I know that most of the fun in this hobby is putting things together, and actually playing the cab is secondary. Trust me. You're young, you're free from parental control for the first time in your life, you've got more money at your disposal than you've ever had before. I'm not much older than you, I'm 28. I've been married 3 1/2 years. 4 years ago I was lousy with debt, had barely saved a dime, and wanted a cab. Now, I've got a beautiful house with a pool, and a sizable savings account. At my wife's suggestion last year we bought a 47" widescreen HDTV and I got my cabinet (which she has absolutely no interest in). Now my wife is willing to help build a large storage shed that I could keep extra cabs in if I wanted to buy & restore more. I'm not saying your life will turn out any better or worse than mine, regardless of whether or not you get a cab at the auction. I'm just saying that there's a lot of things you can do right now that will do a lot to help you get off on the right foot in your life. I just don't think that buying another cab is one of them. But like I said at the beginning of this post, this is all my personal opinion. --- End quote --- well dude, im not a bum (not saying that you said i was) and i do have a job as an IT Specialist for a credit union here in nashville. i have a Roth IRA account that has been building for about 15 years, as well as mutual funds that are growing but the market isnt that great right now, so they havent grown for a while. ive held my job for the past 8 months and the only thing that has come out of my account is a cell phone bill each month. so im saving pretty well. even if i WAS going to buy something at the auction, i wouldnt spend more than 50 bucks. im stingy, and not that big into dumb retro pac man machines. but if there was like a cool dart board, or a slot machine or something weird like that for 50 bucks, id get it. so im not retarded with my money, and i know everything else comes first. i dont have student loans, or car payments, and im debt free. not saying i know everything at all...but cut me a little slack here. oh and im 22, not 21 ::) |
| zaphod:
It's not always about the money. Sometimes the little lady just doesn't want a second (or third) cab in the main living area and the money issue is just the easiest reason to veto it. I have my main cab in the living room today but realize that the day may come when it gets relegated to the (finished) basement (once we need the space for something else). With each new cab I build, I get asked if its for someone else as she has a "one cab/one house" rule. We, who love the hobby, sometimes forget that not everyone shares our level of enthusiasm about the 300-lb beasts we build. I've also found that you sometimes need to show pictures of what you are talking about rather than just broadly describing the potential purchase to your significant other. Anytime the wife wants to change the color/style of a room I ask for pictures as her verbal description means little to me (did you know there are like 60 different colors of red?!?!?). |
| hulkster:
very well put. yes not everyone shares my hobby...and i have to keep that in mind. to her its a cool arcade thing, but its really big and not what she wants the center piece of our house to be. i understand that, and i was going to put more than one cab in unless we have a large basement area that is designated as like a media room or play room once we have kids...and now that i think about it, we probably wont have a cool basement for another 5 years or so. ANYWAY....i wasnt going to buy another cab in the first place, i just mentioned buying something for 50 bucks if it was like a crazy deal (not an arcade machine) for like a bubble hockey game...but of course it wouldnt be working. oh well, so i guess i wont be going to the auction and ill just spend the time working on my current cab. |
| abrannan:
--- Quote from: hulkster081 on April 14, 2004, 02:27:25 pm --- --- Quote from: abrannan on April 14, 2004, 01:44:51 pm ---Personal opinion time.... Wait. You've got a cab. You don't (as of right now) even have an apartment, let alone a house. You're getting married. This is not a once in a lifetime auction. Set aside the money you'd spend on a cab and put it toward a down payment on a house. Get yourself established: A job, a house, start an IRA (take a look at how much $100 invested at age 20 is worth when you retire and how much $500 is worth invested at age 40). Pay off any credit card/student loan debts (better credit score = easier time getting a better mortgage = bigger house = bigger game room). Retrofit your cab. Add swappable control panels/rotatable monitor/whatever. I know that most of the fun in this hobby is putting things together, and actually playing the cab is secondary. Trust me. You're young, you're free from parental control for the first time in your life, you've got more money at your disposal than you've ever had before. I'm not much older than you, I'm 28. I've been married 3 1/2 years. 4 years ago I was lousy with debt, had barely saved a dime, and wanted a cab. Now, I've got a beautiful house with a pool, and a sizable savings account. At my wife's suggestion last year we bought a 47" widescreen HDTV and I got my cabinet (which she has absolutely no interest in). Now my wife is willing to help build a large storage shed that I could keep extra cabs in if I wanted to buy & restore more. I'm not saying your life will turn out any better or worse than mine, regardless of whether or not you get a cab at the auction. I'm just saying that there's a lot of things you can do right now that will do a lot to help you get off on the right foot in your life. I just don't think that buying another cab is one of them. But like I said at the beginning of this post, this is all my personal opinion. --- End quote --- well dude, im not a bum (not saying that you said i was) and i do have a job as an IT Specialist for a credit union here in nashville. i have a Roth IRA account that has been building for about 15 years, as well as mutual funds that are growing but the market isnt that great right now, so they havent grown for a while. ive held my job for the past 8 months and the only thing that has come out of my account is a cell phone bill each month. so im saving pretty well. even if i WAS going to buy something at the auction, i wouldnt spend more than 50 bucks. im stingy, and not that big into dumb retro pac man machines. but if there was like a cool dart board, or a slot machine or something weird like that for 50 bucks, id get it. so im not retarded with my money, and i know everything else comes first. i dont have student loans, or car payments, and im debt free. not saying i know everything at all...but cut me a little slack here. oh and im 22, not 21 ::) --- End quote --- My apologies if I offended you, that was certainly not my intent, though I can understand where you could get that from my reply. I was making very broad assumptions about your situation based solely on what I've seen from my friends as they come out of college. I assumed you were talking about a cabinet purchase from your initial post, not a bubble hockey/foosball/dartboard. And as we all know, a $50 cab still needs a lot of love/money. You sound like you've got a great start going, and are definitely ahead of the curve. I still say wait on any purchase that's going to take up a lot of in-home real estate, though. |
| hulkster:
no way man, i wasnt taking any offense to what you were saying. in fact, i welcome the advice! especially from someone who is close to my age range. i was just simply informing you of what my situation was and where i stood. im starting to see how much money these things can suck away from you and im still learning about all that, so definitely no offense taken. im past the stage of being a punk kid not wanting to take any advice from my elders, unless that elder is a hippie!....i hate hippies. |
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