Razzle
Enlightened
I've purchased 12 in my first month here.
I've purchased 12 in my first month here.
this thread reminds me of old anecdote.
a guy comes into sotre that sells cars, asks for a fastest one, salesguy says, "sir, we have this ferrary, if you leave now, you will be in paris by 2am. the guy goes, "no, i don't want it."
the sales guy is like " why? you asked for fastest car??", the guy says, "what am i gonna do in paris at 2am?"
This is the fine gentlemen who turned me into a Flashaholic!!! He likes my TK75 the best because after he gets the Deers scent, I can easily spot them!! :thumbsup:
Makes sense to me! :thumbsup: Great logic!^+1 - I now need 3 lights to walk the dog. A floody light for navigation, a thrower to see something interesting and a backup.
Capo.. adesso calmati!!
Get quieter or otherwise you'll slide in the ill side of flashaholism without even realizing it.
Bills will not be a problem until they will be, same for family relations.
You'll think that's still fine, one more light afterall will not hurt anybody, but you see only (flash)lights and you'll not realize what relatives do already think about your obsession.
^+1 - I now need 3 lights to walk the dog. A floody light for navigation, a thrower to see something interesting and a backup.
It´s a must to have these lights in order to complete the dogwalks! I might add a headlamp as well ,and then you are fully equipped!
Guys, seriously. Some of you should consider selling some of your flashlights and donating some money to charity. There are millions of people in the world who struggle to get a meal each day. Nobody needs more than a handful of flashlights, imho.
I suppose you have no possessions that you could do without?
Perhaps a smaller TV, or, really, do you really NEED a TV?
Do you need a bed and furniture? Couldn't you get by with some inexpensive lawn furniture and a sleeping bag?
If you only eat once a day, you could donate what you would have spent on those two meals to charity.
I just donate a potion of my income to charity and leave it at that. I use the lights for work, so, I can't afford to give them up, it would be akin to the miller selling his wheel.
With all due respect, your assumption that I spend all my money on flashlights and don't donate money (and time) to charity is wrong.
I am talking about some of the people on here who confess to having 20, 30 torches or more. One guy reckoned it could be as much as 70, some of them stored in boxes and probably never used after a day or two of being bought for the most part. No addiction is healthy, imo, it means you are no longer in control of your life. Obviously if you need your torches for work (or leisure) then you have plenty of justification for having them. Obviously it's good to have a high quality, high end tool that will perform reliably to do any job, that's why i'm on this forum in the first place. But when countless high end torches are lying unused on shelves, drawers and boxes, well that's consumerism got out of hand imo. All the tech manufacturers are milking addictive personalities: torches, cameras, smartphones, pcs, games consoles, televisions etc. etc. They deliberately hold back some of the high end technology that they could put on a product at an earlier date until the market is saturated with the old, then they milk the market again with an upgrade. Addictive personalities are manna from heaven for them.