Deluxe Reverb as hired backline

BintyTwanger77

Sassafras said:

You must be one hell of a heavy smoker @BintyTwanger77  if 8 months of snouts will get you a Lazy J.

Smoking is a f*ck-expensive business. Even on less than 20 a day you can spend £300 a month on cigarettes.

ChrisMusic

BintyTwanger77 said:

Sassafras said:

You must be one hell of a heavy smoker @BintyTwanger77  if 8 months of snouts will get you a Lazy J.

Smoking is a f*ck-expensive business. Even on less than 20 a day you can spend £300 a month on cigarettes.

It never ceases to amaze me how much some simple things that people take for granted add up to when you accumulate that spend over a slightly longer time scale.  Things like smoking, coffee, or even daily parking fees.

£300 a month = £7,200 over two years, that's a serious GAS budget right there !

= £20,000 in just five and a half years, that's a whole TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS up in smoke    :-O

hotpickups

Not to mention ...... smoking FRIGGIN' Kills you. As it did my brother of 43 years of age

lukedlb

A little known fact: the new machines that make the cigarettes now produce 10,000 cigarettes a minute. That's 500 packets per minute. They work 24 hour shifts. I'm not even going to calculate how many that is per day, let alone per year. Yes, sometimes they need fixing but that's why they have 2 machines. 

newi123

ChrisMusic said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

Sassafras said:

You must be one hell of a heavy smoker @BintyTwanger77  if 8 months of snouts will get you a Lazy J.

Smoking is a f*ck-expensive business. Even on less than 20 a day you can spend £300 a month on cigarettes.

It never ceases to amaze me how much some simple things that people take for granted add up to when you accumulate that spend over a slightly longer time scale.  Things like smoking, coffee, or even daily parking fees.

£300 a month = £7,200 over two years, that's a serious GAS budget right there !

= £20,000 in just five and a half years, that's a whole TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS up in smoke    :-O

But as the old joke goes:

Man - `You`ve smoked for 20 years? In that time you`ve spent enough on cigs to by a Ferrari!`

Wife - `Yep - have you smoked in the last 20 years?`

Man - `erm - no!`

Wife - `Fine - so where`s your frekkin Ferrari???????`


I guess you pays your money and makes your choice!

(nb - I`ve never smoked - my wife really does smoke 20 a day, although she moved to vape-ing on Monday this week. I don`t have a Ferrari, or even a Lazy J)

StuartMac290

I used to smoke sixty a day. Glad I stopped, I'd have been destitute by now!

gordiji

worse still regular smoking doesn't even pack a buzz.

Gassage

gordiji said:

worse still regular smoking doesn't even pack a buzz.

I'll PM you a number....

meltedbuzzbox

BintyTwanger77 said:

Sassafras said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

I'm contemplating the uncontemplatable at the moment, as part of the cigarettes-for-GAS challenge I've set myself: selling my fantastic 65 DRRI, and making do with my wee Blackstar 1W practice amp for home and using rehearsal room amps until I've saved enough ex-cigs money for a new one. Hardcore.

It would be a huge sacrifice, though, because I love that amp so much.

I don't understand.
Why would you sell an amp you love only to buy it back again?

It would be an incentive to continue not to smoke and save the money I would spend on cigarettes for an amp. It's all in another thread I posted. Deprivation as motivation. Also, 8 months of not smoking could buy me a Lazy J20, so wouldn't necessarily be buying a DRRI again if I went ahead and did this.

why not keep the amp and sell it when you have enough saved up (+ amp sale) to buy the lazy j?

Or even better buy a hiwatt as Hiwatt > Lazy J
 

Sassafras

gordiji said:

worse still regular smoking doesn't even pack a buzz.

Depends on what you're smoking.

Gassage

meltedbuzzbox said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

Sassafras said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

I'm contemplating the uncontemplatable at the moment, as part of the cigarettes-for-GAS challenge I've set myself: selling my fantastic 65 DRRI, and making do with my wee Blackstar 1W practice amp for home and using rehearsal room amps until I've saved enough ex-cigs money for a new one. Hardcore.

It would be a huge sacrifice, though, because I love that amp so much.

I don't understand.
Why would you sell an amp you love only to buy it back again?

It would be an incentive to continue not to smoke and save the money I would spend on cigarettes for an amp. It's all in another thread I posted. Deprivation as motivation. Also, 8 months of not smoking could buy me a Lazy J20, so wouldn't necessarily be buying a DRRI again if I went ahead and did this.

why not keep the amp and sell it when you have enough saved up (+ amp sale) to buy the lazy j?

Or even better buy a hiwatt as Hiwatt > Lazy J
 

Jack, no. They're different. That's like saying a fuzz is better than a delay 

sgosden

lukedlb said:

A little known fact: the new machines that make the cigarettes now produce 10,000 cigarettes a minute. That's 500 packets per minute. They work 24 hour shifts. I'm not even going to calculate how many that is per day, let alone per year. Yes, sometimes they need fixing but that's why they have 2 machines.  

500 per minute x 60 = 30,000 an hour
30,000 x 24 = 720,000 a day
720,000 X 365 = 262,800,000 packs a year

Tuscan777

People like fags.

Tuscan777

So, in conclusion, I intend to take up smoking, then stop, then use the money saved to buy a Deluxe Reverb, or Twin, or Pro Reverb, or Vibrolux.

Or just use my Orange, Cornford or Fender and stop buying more amps.

professorben

BintyTwanger77 said:

I'm contemplating the uncontemplatable at the moment, as part of the cigarettes-for-GAS challenge I've set myself: selling my fantastic 65 DRRI, and making do with my wee Blackstar 1W practice amp for home and using rehearsal room amps until I've saved enough ex-cigs money for a new one. Hardcore.

It would be a huge sacrifice, though, because I love that amp so much.

Respect what you are doing, but don't be a tool, if you love the amp, keep it, it's gonna save you money in the long run if you end up having to get another.