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1. Don't use a credit card that your wife might see. Use cash for purchases.
2. Take an experienced, cheapskate tying buddy with you when shopping. He might help you avoid a lot of junk purchases.
3. Try to spend some time studying up on synthetic materials so you won't really be buying duplicates of materials that are really the same stuff.
4. Avoid buying huge quantities of stuff like you will be tying professionally. If you do you might find that you don't like that particular stuff at all.
Speaking from experience, left to run loose, you will end up with at least $5000 in your inventory. Good Luck.
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Well at least I'm not alone in this boat. I guess I'm doomed. Between the issue I have with being somewhat of a gear guy (I wish I could at least try it all), my new found off shoot obsession, and my insatiable desire to have multiple copies of lures and flies that produce, I think I'm gonna have to find a group akin to AA but for fishermen. LOL
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Another subspecies of the virus is the thought that when you find something that you like it may not be available in the future. This results in your buying a lifetime supply. It's like a drunk fearing that prohibition might return.
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Just now saw your heading ... under the Fly tying forum, "Is this normal". Sweet Cheeks, NOTHING is normal when it's connected with fly tying, or fly fishing, or rod building, or ... I could go on, but you get the idea. This is a weird perversion that NOTHING can correct ... save for more materials, more rods, more fly fishing .... oh, yah.:roll:
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"Sweet Cheeks"! Betty, you just keep me laughing, but, should I feel offended? You've never called me "Sweet Cheeks" before:roll:. As for your comment regarding 'normal', I think we all agree that we have serious addictions to many facets of this so-called 'sport', and that nothing we do can be termed 'normal':cool:
Kelly.