Originally Posted by
pjbingham
Guy has outed me so here goes....My name is Phil and I'm addicted to crap Airguns. Often the worse they are the more I want them,I almost feel for their suffering. I'm the same with other stuff,I bought my house as a wreck and even my cats are rescue cats with only one tail and 3 eyes between them.
Once I have rebuilt an air pistol I wouldn't be able to get rid of it unless it was passed on to someone who feels the same and even then it would be difficult,however I don't have any issue selling something that's newish. I tend to hoard as many old spares as possible and it's almost as hard passing those on but I'm a hypocrite because I could never bring myself to break a gun myself. I was never this bad until I got divorced and lost almost everything. I bought her out so I had the house but I had to sell everything prior to pay for the divorce and she took the rest. I had a coffee table and a wooden trunk and that was it. The gas/electric/phone/water etc she had cut off. I had managed to hide my Airsporter and Tempest and parts of a BSA cadet in the loft,these were parts of my collection that I just couldn't bare to part with and the night she left I went up with a torch and retrieved them from under the insulation
Since then I've collected every waif and stray I could get my hands on and that genuinely makes me happy. I've had councilling because I have an obsession with fixing things,not being able to fix things genuinely distresses me,other than all that I'm completely normal
Great post Mr. Bingham, and you do not need counselling for fixing things. People who do not fix things need counselling, if it wasn't for people like you others would be living in a world of junk that does not work. As for letting go of things I have slowly got used to passing things on and having a loose grip on material possessions or they can control your life. Some rifles and pistols that I had and said I would never sell have gone and I do not feel any the worse for it. Also have more available cash to look for something different in future !
Regards, Baz
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