Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Am I the Only Poor person Here?

No insult intended,it just seems like alot of folks have some big bucks,custom,whizzbang deathrays(yes that is jealousy you smell) and all kinds of neat stuff.

I haven't bought a rifle since 93 and I havent bought a handgun or a shotgun since 99,not that I don't NEED some new stuff or want some new stuff,but I ain't got the stuff I need to buy the stuff I want.
I've been trying to save up to buy a slug barrel for my LT 20 and that money keeps going to pay for something the kids need.

No wife, no kids, grants me the latitude for many toys.

Methinks spending money on kids is a far greater endeavor though.

No wife and no kids. My friends who buy a new vehicle every other year and spend a couple grand a year on downloaded music, buy everything at 21% interest on a credit card including a big mac, and who spend more money in a month on alcohol than I do on groceries always ask me how I can afford to pay cash for a $500 gun.....

But if you have kids they gotta come first. Priorities.

If you have kids, you'll be poor, but they're well worth it. Trouble is they get more expensive as they get older, so brace yourself. Don't know how old your kids are, but wait till you have to pay for college. Paying for tuition for Boston College alone keeps me in the poorhouse.

Besides, you don't live in a state, and if you live in the Socialist Republic of New Jersey, you have to pay ALL kinds of taxes to King Corslime, that too keeps one poor here.

Nope; yer not alone, but I have my own special kind of wealth in wife and kiddo. Drain in the gun budget, but always a barrel of laughs.

Yep, if it can't fit on my DEBIT card I can't buy it.

have sold many a toy to pay for somethin' more important... and the kid is always more important.

Been there done that more than once. I am now in my late 60's and still have to trade to get new stuff. But the house and trucks are paid for and no CC debt.

Lets see. I'm not cold. I'm not hungry. My roof don't leak. NOPE,I ain't poor!

I don't see paying for college as the responsibility of the parents. It's expensive yes, and getting more so. But state colleges are affordable and there are some great ones to choose from. It's a matter of sacrifice though. How disciplined are your kids and how bad do they want it? If they can get a full scholarship great. But if they have to work, save and be frugal, it can be done. College is not for everyone either and not the only path to success. I've met some very smart and capable folks who never went to college.

I can remember when money was tight indeed. Hope your financial position improves ADK4Rick.

2 kids in college, one dog...
We don't eat out much, don't drink in bars...
I save what I can for guns and components, but would rather
have the kids, wife and dog. Most of the time.
Like mtnman1 I have sold a lot of "stuff" to fund new
projects, and have farmed out work to fund my hobbies.
I think many people on this site are in the same boat, with
family responsibilites and other things (like having a roof
over your head or food on the table) to pay for before the
latest whiz bang gun-o-the-month. Heck, my stuff is so old
that my shotguns were patented around 1897...

That's my situation as well, except my kids are grown. That plus a good paying job prior to retirement.
Now I fit in the "poor" category.

Nope, ya aint the only po folks round the 'Fire...there's more of us, at least poor monetarily...very rich in family and friends all that good stuff in life

Tis why I always chuckle at the 'this is the one gun I would never sell' comments.

If the day ever comes that I don't know a single person more important than stuff put a bullet in me.

Ya think?

example:

today my 9 yo son tells me he lost his Lacrosse helmet that I bought him a month ago for $110.00.

got a game in 2 days and I need a prop for my motor,which one do you think I'm gonna buy?

every day I admire my own fathers restraint.

love is great but it ain't cheap

Same here. Sometimes it a week to week thing. But we have a very small debt and that is what we work on and setting the example for our boys to follow on how not to ever have debt. We still have fun. I was able to gather up a few toys before kids cause we were later parents. The best part of the week day for me is coming home and hearing "Daddy!" and gettin those hugs. As a matter of fact, I think, no, I KNOW I'm pretty dadgum rich! Just not in the green stuff. I aint takin it with me any ways.

Not wealthy by most peoples' standards but consider myself rich as I get to live in a hunting/fishing relatively unpopulated paradise (to me anyway). Bills are paid, good food to eat, enough toys to play with, kids are grown and paid for (could have been rich if I would have invested in gas with Neil McMurry and starved the little rats back then ). Back when they were young, every time I tried to save for me they would need it. It was worth it though. You have your priorities in order! That is what counts!

My wife and kids learned early that if I arrived home with a new toy, they needed to tighten their belts another notch because I had spent the grocery money on another gun. My daughter used to inform the wife when the brown box man had stopped by the house, couldn't sneak a thing in.

Always believed the best thing to spend on kids is time.

I was fortunate to grow up quite poor but dad ALWAYS had time for his favorite son. I never realized what I was lacking as a kid by not having money, guess that's because I never suffered for the important thing, DAD's time.