HEY,.... keep it down. Don' t you know this is just like the Government Spending. You have to spend it, it' s your duty... you cannot fail. If a department in the Government doesn' t spend all the money they' re given.... their allocations will be trimmed accordingly the next 2 or 3 physcal years. It' ll take all kinds of whinning and crying to justify ever having it again. IF.... notice I said " IF" you were NOT to spend there are several things that will happen. First the local store of your choice(in this case NON-Choice spending) will not meet it' s goals. Good help will have to be laid off, profits will fall, service will drop etc etc etc. You' ll be doing your fellow hunters a great disservice. SECONDLY.... consider your wife/mothers/girl friends like the Congress. They allocate(unwillingly of course) the money you spend every year on hunting. Should you NOT spend... they' ll take away your allocation for the next 2 or 3 years or at a minimum chop it severely. It will take years to get back to your present spending level. PLUS, they' ll talk to their friends who will then use YOU as a roll model for their husband to try and be like....Doesn' t spend money on hunting. They' ll get ticked and before you know it they' ll have their allocation cut. SO, what will they do..... DUMP YOU as a hunting partner, raise club dues and all sorts of things.

You can see from this scenerio where this is all headed. YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOU must plan for the future and plan for inflation when it comes roaring back. You must figure what you spent last year and add to that a minimum of 10 percent. You explain that with.... prices have gone up. You accomplish several things with this. You' ll have more JUNK to sell on E-bay. The less fortunate will have a place to pick up things cheaper and when you really need something..... " WELL, of course dear. That' s pretty reasonable compared to what you' ve spent in the past and with inflation and all it sounds like a good deal" .

NOW, no more of this " I ain' t buying stuff. Get out the darn check book, clean off the plastic and go shopping. IF you spread it out a little(or lot) every month it doesn' t show up so bad.[:-]