Oh yeah, preparedness items. forgot that.

and rocks. How could I forget those?

Knives, guns, and fishing gear is what you REALLY need to collect! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I also collected jewelry for my wife for a while until she told me to knock it off.

is "amass" the same thing as "collect"? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like a great wife! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Amass...collect...same thing! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I've pared down my collection of guns lately, and I'm PLENTY good on fishing gear. (Dad used to be a tournament bass fisherman)

my wife is far more practical than I am. For our 10 year anniversary, I took her, the kids, and the inlaws to Australia for a vacation (we had free airfare courtesy of the State Department from our posting). I also gave her a strand of Tahitian pearls. She nearly had a heart attack when I told her I paid close to 1k. ("But sweetheart, they are worth 10 times that!") She told me I should've stuck to the trip <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Pretty nice! I don't buy much jewelry for Old Grumpybutt, she's not big into it. She'd rather go out and eat at nice restaurants and slip off for a weekend at the beach.

I'd like to pare down my guns. Problem is, the ones I want to pare down were from my dad. He's weird that way. Keeps giving me guns I don't want and can't/won't use that he buys for himself and decides later it was a mistake. Then gets upset if I suggest I'm gonna sell them.

WOW!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Would you adopt me??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />