Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
Bud and I went to a music store to pick up guitar strings one day. He looked longingly at the Martin Guitars on display as he always did. I asked which he’d choose if price didn’t matter. He said he’d always wanted the Martin HD28. I summoned the sales person and bought it on the spot. Bud was stunned. I turned out to be a joyous choice. He got serious about learning and has become quite good. It’s brought us both many hours of enjoyment. I’m glad I bought it. I
t’s harder to be happy about the banjo he bought himself.
Nutsrok 
How sweet you did that for Bud. You are a good wife.
I kind of love a banjo. :)
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They are kind of twangy.
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2 Violins, 1 Cello … more than home and 2 cars and all that is in it. :-[
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Oh, wow, Linda! How amazing! Yay! 🎶 I giggled at the banjo….yep, i bought one…once!
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Did you learn to play?
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A bit! I play the flute and piano. And I have a uke I love. I sold the banjo back to the store.
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I wish I had musical talent!
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I need to think about that…..I tend not to buy a lot……
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I buy what I need. I do spend on gardening, though.
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Thank you:)
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I agree!
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Before I performed in venues as varied as state senatorial events, galleries and fine restaurants, I had to learn, in childhood, the basics of the classical flute. We lived in an apartment then, and I remember the tenant over my head used to take a broomstick to the floor between us… 😆
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If you ever feel like sharing. I’d like to know more.
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Sure ~ more about which part?
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Tell me about your early life.
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Like, childhood? Well, imagine a plug-ugly, buck toothed child of noble European parentage as well as almost totally isolation, and scoring way over the line for genius (but not informed of that, I guess in an effort to create a normal life?), plunked down two years ahead of all her classmates in a small town Ohio Kindergarten, and you’ll have the general picture…
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Oh that’s never an advantage to be put ahead. That had to be tough.
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Good word for it.
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Actually, I was still so far ahead on the schoolwork that they then skipped me right past the first grade and into second. So then I was three years younger than everyone else and still terminally bored ~ by then I was reading at the fifth grade level. There weren’t any gifted and talented programs then. I guess they really had no idea what to do with me. Still don’t, haha but it’s not funny.
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I agree. I read manically but was definitely not socially adept. School can be so hard on our psyches.
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We have succeeded in making a very expensive disaster of our public schools. The average high school graduate presently cannot read past the sixth grade level.
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What a shame!
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Oh, indeed. Truly.
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Most expensive thing I ever bought, let me think, been thinking can’t thing a dame thing, I guess it would have to be the caravan which Tim wanted so much and we used it only four times before he sold it.
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Why didn’t you use it more?
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Tim felt it was too much effort setting it up
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It is some rtouble. We usually stay several days to mae it worth the trouble.
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The most expensive thing I bought myself was a pair of hearing aids. I should have asked for donations from those who said I needed them. Just kidding! I didn’t give into pressure. I knew I needed them.
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Bud needs them. He’s hostile to the idea. Being deaf is cheap
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How I laughed about the banjo!! 🪕🪕 My brother and I had one long ago, and our parents didn’t kill us.
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Oh my gosh. Have you ever had the violent nassaulting you regularly?
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I’m tired and can’t grasp the significance of your comment. Sorry. Usually I can understand what people are writing. I’m going to bed early tonight. It’s been an odd day. 7:15 p.m. now, and I haven’t had lunch yet.
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Uh oh. Hope you feel better tomorrow.
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I meant Bud tried to learn violin for a while. It was maddening.
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Ah! I didn’t get the violin part. Yes, I was assaulted with violin screeches. Lise had lessons for a year or two. She later played the flute, and that was easier to take. I don’t remember Kate playing anything, but she became a marvelous choir member. She was never a soloist, but she could read music and watch the director, always singing on pitch. Son John had no musical training, but he played drums and the didgeridoo.
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I have absolutely no musical talent.
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I have no artistic abilities.
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That was a lovely gift…
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It was. He has loved it!
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