Thread: Now I'm in trouble, getting some hones...

Hmmm, guess I should make up a list of what I need to sell! Got some future buyers here!

Randy, I told you I'd be up in a couple of weeks!

Originally Posted by randydance062449

Hmmm, guess I should make up a list of what I need to sell! Got some future buyers here!

Haha, you definitely had a good number of stones Randy! If only I could buy everything I wanted! But we're about to take out our first mortgage looking for a house, so I have an unfortunate premonition that I'm going to have to quit cold turkey for a while...

Originally Posted by adbuett

But we're about to take out our first mortgage looking for a house, so I have an unfortunate premonition that I'm going to have to quit cold turkey for a while...

Acutally from my own experience, buying and owing a home has been a great boon for my stone buying, I have even gotten my wife to help with the hauling. Start subtly with rocks for the garden, pick out a few showy small ones mixed in. I gave my wife all of my garden stones as a gift, pretty sneeky uh. Owing a house provides you with all kind of places to hide stones too, out of sight of the purser. Get youself a shop at your new house, even if it is just couple of cardboard boxes with your tools in them and a cardtable for a bench. You can hide stones in the boxes. If you can do some helpful and handy project around the house you might even be allowed and new box for supplies and tools. Successful home projects promotes rewards from the spouse, get boxes with lock on them, great for hiding stuff/stones. Owing a home gives one a sense of security, play this angle up with your family, you know "a strong (stone based) foundation is the key to bla,bla,bla. Practice that in the mirror when you are shaving. Don't forget, if in a pinch you can bury anything in the back yard for later retrieval, just don't keep a map, that could lead to an embarrasing discovery. happy diggin, alx

p.s. Don't openly call any sharpening hones by their proper names, be it your best most expensive imported razor hone or 4/8 combo. Just always use code names like stone and rock or that "old dirty thing" and never ever by my most dearly loved coti, or my finest hone, or my best of the best. Keep those enderaments for those you can trust, us here on the SRP. a

Alx, that is hillarious! "yeah honey, look at this stone I just found. It's kinda green with red streaks in it. You want to put it where!? In the pathway!? Over my dead body!!!"