I was thinking today about my old gear. I suppose being in a position of relative poverty! has always made me think very carefully about what I buy! Also, the things I have bought in the past, I still have with me today! That goes for my guitars, my 4 track, even my (very) old tape recorder! I am loath to part with any of my aquisitions mainly because they were so hard to come by in the first place. When 4 track tape recorders first appeared on the music scene, everybody I knew rushed out and bought one! The cost of these things was too prohibitive to me, being married with a load of sprogs to feed. When I had eventually saved enough to buy one, it was like Christmas and birthdays rolled into one! It cost me 3 weeks wages almost, but It was treasured from the start and is still a treasured item now some 20 years on! I suppose because it was so hard come by, is why I would never part with it! Although I almost gave it to a friend a while back! He was having some trouble recording to the PC. He only ever uses a guitar and vocal, but in the end, I couldn't bear to part with it! Not because I didn't want to help out a mate, but because he would never have appreciated it like I had! Anybody else feel the same about their own gear?