A Question For Everyone..

[Dan1954]

Ok you are drooling over a new guitar with that look in your eye and that lust in your heart. Your other half says:

Don't you already have a guitar?

Without sounding like an idiot, what is your best response?

;)  

[bing4sons]

Without sounding like an idiot, what is your best response?

Well, I've never figured that one out.

Even, if it makes perfect, logical sense to me, my wife is not going to understand, because she doesn't play guitar.

BTW, I've neve understood why she needs so many clothes.   :lol:  

[Snowy]

How's this -- "yes, darling, but I already have a pair of shoes, too.  And, as we all know, one can always do with a new pair."

Okay, lame, but it might work if she has more than two or three pairs (like me.) :-)

[jmhyer]

BTW, I've neve understood why she needs so many clothes.

...and shoes...and purses...and jewelry items...  :D  

[jimi thing]

Ok you are drooling over a new guitar with that look in your eye and that lust in your heart. Your other half says:

Don't you already have a guitar?

Without sounding like an idiot, what is your best response?

;)

Yes dear I do have a guitar, but it's lonely, and needs a friend.  :unsure:

besides......

he who dies with the most toys WINS!  :D  

[bing4sons]

How's this -- "yes, darling, but I already have a pair of shoes, too.  And, as we all know, one can always do with a new pair."

Okay, lame, but it might work if she has more than two or three pairs (like me.) :-)

Snowy,

But what do you say when she says her shoes only cost $xx.xx when the guitar costs $xxx.xx or even worse $x,xxx.xx?   :unsure:

BTW, I've tried that one before, that's why I had the follow up question.   :D

Bing

[hsojeel]

bing you sound like you've had this discussion before.  What I wouldn't give for some serum that makes my wife love guitars as much as I do.  As far as gassing over a certain guitar, I would have to say that I am really, really slobbery for that Baritone they are going to put out.  Man I can't take my eyes off it.
Enough! I look away. <_<  

[guitarcrazy]

Try this one:  "It is always the same hon, just because you have one thing you like, that doesn't mean you have to stop looking at others."  On second thought, don't try that one.  May not be good for your health! :P J

[Dr. Evil]

I find that a long dissertation citing specs, materials and types of sound produced by different woods can lead to confusion which is an effective means of getting around the subject.  :D  

[AcousTronic]

Luckily, my wife gets it... I have about 5 different tunings that I use, and she knows it makes no sense to have to retune for different songs when playing for a crowd. Plus, I do fingerstyle and flatpicking. And she can hear the difference when I try to finger a dread, or flatpick the OM. She told me the other day that I really need a 12 string, and I told her that I think a baritone might be a great addition too, and once I told her what a baritone is, she agreed. I currently have 6 acoustics, so that would bring me to 8... More than 8 would simply be foolish!!  :lol:  BTW, I love my wife!!

[unclrob]

For me it's simple,when I die she gets a bunch of FREE money.Free money is better then USED CARS,GIRLFRIENDS,plus she gets the life insurance.Now the real ? is why is there so much rat poison in a house with 7 Cats? :blink:  

[ducktrapper]

I cleverly had her fall in love with my parlor. Then I gave it to her which of course took all the heat off of me getting a 000. Pretty fart smeller, eh?  

[Dan1954]

Now the real ? is why is there so much rat poison in a house with 7 Cats?

Life goes on Bra!

;)  

[shadco]

Come on guys.

I'm gonna need a better excuse gas is building up

http://www.larrivee.com/data/products/guit...OM-50/OM-50.htm

[TBM]

Now the real ? is why is there so much rat poison in a house with 7 Cats?

Life goes on Bra!

;)

Don't mention bras....   :D


Seriously...

I've had this discussion several times with my better half.  The best way I have found to convince her is to sit her down in my music room explain why each guitar is diiferent, and how another one will fill a distinct void in my playing style.

"See, honey?  The big one here is called a dreadnaught.  It's for strumming.  {Strum strum}.  Now, this one over here is a Grand Auditorium.  It sounds different than a dread... {strum strum}  See how that sounds different?  {strum strum}  Now this smaller one is an Orchestra Model, or OM.  It's for fingerstyle.  It doesn't strum well -- See?  {strum strum} It sounds different than the others {strum strum strum strum}.  The other one?  Yeah, that's for fingerstyle too, but it's made of different wood.  It sounds different from this one -- See? {finger finger #1, finger finger #2}.  A world of difference!..."

She eventually becomes so confused by the different guitars and the fact that she really can't hear any difference between them that she walks out of the room -- Success!!!!

Of course, when the new couch is delivered a month later, the roles are reversed... "Why do we need another couch?"

"Well, the one we had was for newly married people.  They sit on a couch differently than people that have been married for 15 years.  See?  {sit sit}  Feel the difference?...."   :unsure:

[Fergy07]

With mine, she prefers that I at least try to use it to write her a song. The sooner after getting it the better for all concerned.

Andy

[unclrob]

AH!!!! That explains the penguins in the back yard too.Always wondered about them :huh:  

[Dan1954]

Of course, when the new couch is delivered a month later, the roles are reversed... "Why do we need another couch?"

Hahaha!!!!! This is funny. I got my new OM-03 on Christmas eve and they are delivering her new Lazy Boy recliner today..  :lol:  

[Mikeymac]

But there really is a double standard.  

My wife doesn't see anything wrong with having 6 or 7 sets of dishes (I kid you not), and if I say "But you can only eat on one set at a time," that just gets ignored (or worse; we won't talk about 'worse'!). (BTW, I CAN understand having a Christmas/holiday set of dishes and a regular set of dishes; beyond this I'm confused - but it doesn't mean I don't have empathy, since we guitarists feel the same way about different instruments...)

However, what works for sets of dishes doesn't compute (in her mind, anyway) with guitars...as I said, there's clearly a double standard here (and we men always get accused of that!).

<_<

[bing4sons]

Of course, when the new couch is delivered a month later, the roles are reversed... "Why do we need another couch?"

Hahaha!!!!! This is funny. I got my new OM-03 on Christmas eve and they are delivering her new Lazy Boy recliner today..  :lol:

My Music Man cost me a new kitchen.  The Larrivee or Avalon (I can't remember which) cost me a new bed.  

When I bring up to my wife that the kitchen cost a lot more than my guitars,  my wife says, "well you benefit from those things too".  This is true, but I would rather have an old kitchen/bed and new guitars.   :lol:  I guess that's not the point though.

Oh well, I guess I'd rather keep my wife happy, than get new guitars.  As she says on occasion, "if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy".    :o