Tool Depreciation

I was wondering WHY tools depreciate so much after you buy them ? For instance nearly every time a purchase a new tool say $ 900 + you drive home, wife asks " what is that ? " "how much was THAT !!" Oh only $ 250. How can tools depreciate so quickly :?

Yes I know what you mean, many of my tools have suffered instant depreciation. Also I find that tools can age dramatically, for instance a tool might be bought today but by the time my wife sees it on that same day, it can be years old.

I don't have that problem, I also don't have a wife

If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

I like orange tools.

"I've never seen that one before, when did you get it and how much was it?", she asks.

"This?, I got it with all the other orange stuff (triton) over ten years ago, remember" :2tsup:

Cheers

Doug

All my tools are family investments.
Like the stock market sometimes up sometimes down
It's really how you look at things ???

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Originally Posted by 62woollybugger

If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

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So true !!

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Originally Posted by 62woollybugger

If I die before my wife, I just hope she doesn't sell my stuff for what I told her I paid for it.

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look at it this way: you'll be dead so you won't need to worry.

I'm more interested in knowing that my wife will ensure that particular "special" tools go to particular people.

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Originally Posted by ian

look at it this way: you'll be dead so you won't need to worry.

I'm more interested in knowing that my wife will ensure that particular "special" tools go to particular people.

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Some of my best tools are inherited. Recently I've begun sourcing more scrap timber because my 9 yo is going nuts with her great grandpa's hand drill.

Guy's, you have to remember that Dresses and other fashion accessories depreciate just as quickly.

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Originally Posted by fenderbelly

Guy's, you have to remember that Dresses and other fashion accessories depreciate just as quickly.

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They don't last as long either and unlikely to be passed on as an inheritance

Works the same way when I buy guns and the wife realizes theres another one kicking around.

Jees, you blokes must be married to dragons.

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Originally Posted by doug3030

I like orange tools.

"I've never seen that one before, when did you get it and how much was it?", she asks.

"This?, I got it with all the other orange stuff (triton) over ten years ago, remember" :2tsup:

Cheers

Doug

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I'd like to try this but, unfortunately my partner has a photographic memory, when it comes to my stuff. I too, have a photographic memory, but forget to put in the film.:doh:
Kryn

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Originally Posted by rustynail

Jees, you blokes must be married to dragons.

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Partners who are just not tool admirers!