A Comment leads to a Tangent
I couldn’t help but chuckle at Grant’s recent comment regarding my issues with the Land Rover.
He said, “Shoulda bought a Ford.”
It’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to a comment that I made on his site back in 2009 where we were both kicking ourselves for not buying a ton of Ford stock back when it was on the brink of worthlessness.
Re-thinking back to that time, and imagining if I had pulled the trigger on buying into Ford like I’d wanted to, what would I have done with it since?
Would have I have wisely sold it for a tidy profit before this most predictable downward trend of the past few weeks?
Or would I still have it in my portfolio?
Well, I’ll tell you… I’d still have it.
Since there’s nothing on television worth watching on Sunday or Monday nights, for the past few weeks I’ve found myself wathing those hoarding shows on A&E and TLC.
Personally, I much prefer the TLC variation of the show. It’s far less confrontational.
Anyway, from watching these shows, I think I’ve somewhat confirmed something that I’ve long suspected anyway.
I have hoarding tendancies.
No, no, I’m not *anything* like the people on the show but I do have a thing for collecting and accumulating things (cough, hockey jerseys, cough, cough) and then being reluctant to ever part with them.
Remember that $30k worth of photography equipment? Yeah, I should have sold the stuff that I no longer used back then for a tidy sum.
A Canon 10D, Canon 1D, and a Canon 1D Mark II aren’t worth nearly as much now — and I’m *still* not using them and have no plans to either.
Still, I’d have a hard time parting with them.
And that’s exactly what would’ve happened with the Ford stock.
