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  1. 15th February 2016, 10:31 PM #1
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    I was wondering WHY tools depreciate so much after you buy them ? For instance nearly every time a purchase a new tool say $ 900 + you drive home, wife asks " what is that ? " "how much was THAT !!" Oh only $ 250. How can tools depreciate so quickly
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    Yes I know what you mean, many of my tools have suffered instant depreciation. Also I find that tools can age dramatically, for instance a tool might be bought today but by the time my wife sees it on that same day, it can be years old.
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    I don't have that problem, I also don't have a wife
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    If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.
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    I like orange tools.

    "I've never seen that one before, when did you get it and how much was it?", she asks.

    "This?, I got it with all the other orange stuff (triton) over ten years ago, remember"

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    All my tools are family investments.
    Like the stock market sometimes up sometimes down
    It's really how you look at things ???
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    Quote Originally Posted by 62woollybugger View Post
    If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.
    So true !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 62woollybugger View Post
    If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.
    look at it this way: you'll be dead so you won't need to worry.

    I'm more interested in knowing that my wife will ensure that particular "special" tools go to particular people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ian View Post
    look at it this way: you'll be dead so you won't need to worry.

    I'm more interested in knowing that my wife will ensure that particular "special" tools go to particular people.
    Some of my best tools are inherited. Recently I've begun sourcing more scrap timber because my 9 yo is going nuts with her great grandpa's hand drill.
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    Guy's, you have to remember that Dresses and other fashion accessories depreciate just as quickly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fenderbelly View Post
    Guy's, you have to remember that Dresses and other fashion accessories depreciate just as quickly.
    They don't last as long either and unlikely to be passed on as an inheritance
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    Works the same way when I buy guns and the wife realizes theres another one kicking around.
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    Jees, you blokes must be married to dragons.
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    Quote Originally Posted by doug3030 View Post
    I like orange tools.

    "I've never seen that one before, when did you get it and how much was it?", she asks.

    "This?, I got it with all the other orange stuff (triton) over ten years ago, remember"

    Cheers

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    I'd like to try this but, unfortunately my partner has a photographic memory, when it comes to my stuff. I too, have a photographic memory, but forget to put in the film.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rustynail View Post
    Jees, you blokes must be married to dragons.
    Partners who are just not tool admirers!
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