One way to reduce the effect of
"stacking it high and piling it deep" when it comes to acquiring hunting equipment is to practice what I call the:
Toy-In, Toy-Out Rule
Here's an example of my own application: When nerve damage in my left hand made it necessary to buy my Exomax in 2006, I sold my Mathews Switchback and all of it's accessories. I let my little brother have it for less than the going price, or I'd have broke even on the Exomax and the Right Stuff package. As it was, I ended up paying only around $100 for the entire switch.
I don't always practice this rule, but I do take controlling my posessions very seriously. I don't want them to control me, or for their possession and maintenance to overwelm me. Same thing applies to indebtedness. My teacher said,
"A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." He was right.
There is every bit as much joy to be found in the efficient use of what you already have as there is in acquiring more just for the sake of having it.
It's not necessarily wrong to want more stuff or new stuff, nor wrong to have them, but it can be a
slippery slope ... and it can be a long way to the bottom, as this nation is finding out. The unbridled desire for
more, more, more is part of what's got America into this current financial mess.
All right ... I'm leaving for Bass Pro now!
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