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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Oh no, my father has problems with spending money at all. Despite having his own store, when buying other things the concept of inflation is lost on him.
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That's not a problem with my dad. If there is something he wants, he basically doesn't care what it costs. When he wanted a new front door in the house, it wasn't a problem when the one he picked cost €3000. When he wanted to pick up air rifle shooting again, after 30 years, it wasn't a problem that the rifle and scope combo I selected cost like €400; had he been able to lift mine (which he thinks is better looking) at his age, he would just as easily have bought that combination, costing over €800.
Actually, he is thinking about just that, and then shooting the rifle from a
bench rest. Shooting a rifle using a 12 or 16x scope that way at 25 yeards is ridiculous. You'll *NEVER* miss. If I bench rest my rifle at 25 yards, I can literally shoot the tip off a pencil, or shoot 10 times and you'll only see one hole, even with my extremely poor eyesight.
It'll just be €800 thrown away, as for him, that rifle/scope combination is useless, as it won't pose a challenge when bench rested at his max shooting distance. He still wants it, and I'm sure, at some point, he'll get it.
If the distance was like 50 or 60 yards, shooting at targets the size of 10 eurocent (20mm), then I could completely understand. Then you *MUST* rest the rifle (at least I have to), and when you're going to do that anyway, weight is not an issue. You can then get whatever you want.
Maybe the pleasure to just shoot the thing regardless of challenge is worth €800.
It's only the appliances; the TV, the geyser/central heating, a 5 year old tablet that is getting as slow as molasses because the 2010/2011 vintage CPU can't handle 2016 websites anymore... that sort of stuff doesn't get replaced, although he uses it daily, while the rifle (and one of the mopeds) are just for fun/luxury.
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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
It's also the case with things he wants. For the past four years he asks for money for his birthday, father's day and Christmas to get a new notebook. He has enough money for a while now to get one that is better than it needs to be (he only uses it to surf the internet) but he balks at spending more than a couple of hundred euros though he wants a good one that doesn't need replacing within a couple of years.
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Incomprehensible to me.
"I want something."
"I want it to be good stuff so it lasts a while and don't need to be replaced soon."
"Damn... that shit costs money! More than the cheapskate crap!"
Like... duh.
Get him a Dell Latitude, a Lenovo L or T series, or an HP ProBook and get a 5 year warranty on it. If it breaks after 5 years, you don't even want it repaired as the cost will probably be uneconomical compared to replacement.