Re: [Paddlewise] Pintail has a new home - the wife

Here's how I've addressed the "what do you need another kayak for"  dilema. I 
believe in reaching a critical mass of 3 to 4 kayaks. It also helps to return 
home with other people's kayaks on your car. Tell her you are carrying them 
or storing them for friends. If you have kids it also helps to get them 
kayaks. An occasional nice present for the wife will also work wonders. 

Periodically sell a kayak or leave it with a friend for a period of time. 
This provided the illusion of reducing the fleet, and the additional of 
another kayak becomes less noticeable.

Finally, be supportive of the wife's hobbies. Pay her credit card bills 
without asking probing questions as to the meaning of the charges.

Finally, by the time you fleet reaches 8 or so kayaks, they just give up. 

I have applied this theory to gold clubs, wood working tools, photography 
equipment and kayaks for 22 wonderful years of marriage. Of course my will 
places my "toys" into a trust fund under the careful stewardship of my lawyer 
brother. And, if my testimony is not enought, my father followed this same 
theory for 55 years of marriage. 

Now, since the woman out there in paddlewise land may react to the male 
nature of my reply and advice, please simply turn the table and substitute 
husband for wife and it will also work for you. 

sid
who believes one kayak is never enough

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