What did you save up for but never buy.

DaveGrohl

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cumbria
Dad used to grow 10 acres of potatoes all picked by hand.

Used to love picking potatoes as a boy. Then once we were done, they used to take me to the John Lewis toy shop at Blackpool, to spend my earning. I remember a action man, land rover with trailer & the next year action man motorbike with side car. Maybe 8 one year 9 the next not sure.

I do remember 1976 when I was 12 buying 36 rhode Island Red growers with my potato picking money. Did not actually get them till the following May.
Airfix models were what I spent my hard-earned on. Loved doing those.
 

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
Back in the days when I had a regular turnover of cars :rolleyes: , I had a test drive in a 1.9. Even I realised that I wouldn't last very long in one of those! :censored:
:)

Sounds like me a few years back when I went up to Colwyn Bay M'cycles for a test ride on my "dream" bike that I had lusted after for several years. A lightly tweaked KTM 990 Adventure, money burning a hole in my pocket. 2 years old and very low mileage. The Salesman was already ordering his celebratory burger as I left the showroom on the bike.

I was hugely impressed, but felt that if I bought it, I would probably kill myself in very short order.... LIght and nimble, and could be thrown about like a 250 trail bike, but with front lifting in the first 4 gears just on acceleration, the rolling pickup on the A55 was....impressive. Trouble was the speeds being attained were slightly higher than said 250.

yeah yeah, we all know the throttle goes both ways, but..... ;) I left it and bought a Honda :sneaky:
 
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2wheels

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Location
aberdeenshire
I was madly in love with a young lady in the 6th form and when she passed her test, she used to drive to school in her dad's Manta which was a Bright red H reg, the original with the shark like nose and the duck tail with round rear lights. We had a very happy year or two together but eventually went our own ways at college. Her brother had a newer one, bright orange with Rostyle wheels, very 1970s :)
but you haven't said what we all want to know,did you or didn't you. :D
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
JCB Fastrac. Then I test drove one and it felt like ploughing with a lorry so I didn’t bother.
If there was one moment in my life where I’d started on my decline and loss of ambition it would be that moment: Mid forties. We’ve got smaller as a business ever since but made more profit.
I look through machinery mags now and they leave me cold.
I liked the fastrac 155-65 but it had a god awful clutch and gearbox
Needed a new clutch every year which entailed taking the engine out
Got rid after 3 yrs and 3 clutches
 
Location
salop
Saw one of these at the smithfield show 1995. I thought it was the future and I instantly wanted one. Never made enough to get one. Now its too late, they are all old and tired (me too)
Saw JCB 4220 at a show 4 years ago and had the same strange urge. I now cant be arsed to drive a tractor on the road unless I have to.
 

ford4000

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Livestock Farmer
Location
north Wales
Do you remember been young & wanting to buy something, but by the time you had saved the money you had changed your mind.

In my case it was in my teens, about 16, I really wanted some Tricker boots but by the time I'd saved £150, I was no longer bothered.

Then at 21 we were on David Browns & they were very hot in summer so I saved up for a Deutz with an opening wind screen. By the time I was 25 I had other priorities.
Motocross bike, most of my friends had one when we were in school, I bought all the magazines about them and realIy wanted one!
After leaving school I worked and saved up enough to get down to a motorbike shop, where the perfect motocross bike was there for sale..... And I just couldn't do it, I couldn't part with the money I'd struggled to save up for!
Lost all interest in motorbikes after that, like I'd got it out of my system
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
Motocross bike, most of my friends had one when we were in school, I bought all the magazines about them and realIy wanted one!
After leaving school I worked and saved up enough to get down to a motorbike shop, where the perfect motocross bike was there for sale..... And I just couldn't do it, I couldn't part with the money I'd struggled to save up for!
Lost all interest in motorbikes after that, like I'd got it out of my system
Did u leave your wife standing at the alter too ?
 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
The priest didn't turn up for our wedding. He was a friend of my father in laws and was told by the bishop on the morning of the wedding he couldn't marry a Catholic to a Protestant. He could pitch up to the reception though....We really didn't burn enough of them.

my family are long term Methodist / Presbyterian stock. My uncle was even a Methodist minister.
My first marriage, we did the full church wedding, in a Presbyterian church.
That marriage failed & we divorced.
Fast forward a few years, I meet a Catholic girl & she moves in. We have a son, who the Catholic Church are more than happy to baptise & sign up for confirmation etc.
After a while, we decide to marry. Being Catholic ( & the fact our son was christened there ), she wanted to get married in the Catholic Church. At the time, we were reasonably regular attendees, we had our son christened there & he was signed up for the local Catholic primary school. The priest was keen to marry us - it didn’t matter that I was “Protestant”, it didn’t matter that we lived “in sin” & had a child out of wedlock. The killer was that I was divorced, in the eyes of the “church” I was still married to my first wife & was in fact committing adultery with my new partner. They couldn’t marry me because I was “still married” to my first wife.
Of course, if I wanted to pay an exorbitantly high price to have a Papal Annullmant, they would consider me to be single in the eyes of the church . . .

needless to say, we got married by the Presbies 🤣
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
my family are long term Methodist / Presbyterian stock. My uncle was even a Methodist minister.
My first marriage, we did the full church wedding, in a Presbyterian church.
That marriage failed & we divorced.
Fast forward a few years, I meet a Catholic girl & she moves in. We have a son, who the Catholic Church are more than happy to baptise & sign up for confirmation etc.
After a while, we decide to marry. Being Catholic ( & the fact our son was christened there ), she wanted to get married in the Catholic Church. At the time, we were reasonably regular attendees, we had our son christened there & he was signed up for the local Catholic primary school. The priest was keen to marry us - it didn’t matter that I was “Protestant”, it didn’t matter that we lived “in sin” & had a child out of wedlock. The killer was that I was divorced, in the eyes of the “church” I was still married to my first wife & was in fact committing adultery with my new partner. They couldn’t marry me because I was “still married” to my first wife.
Of course, if I wanted to pay an exorbitantly high price to have a Papal Annullmant, they would consider me to be single in the eyes of the church . . .

needless to say, we got married by the Presbies 🤣
An exorbitantly high price papal anulment?
Is that like putting a new holland tractor In for repair?
 

Tim W

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Do you remember been young & wanting to buy something, but by the time you had saved the money you had changed your mind.

In my case it was in my teens, about 16, I really wanted some Tricker boots but by the time I'd saved £150, I was no longer bothered.

Then at 21 we were on David Browns & they were very hot in summer so I saved up for a Deutz with an opening wind screen. By the time I was 25 I had other priorities.
Haircut -----
 

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