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08-04-2012, 12:40
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Essex
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So .....how much does a man cost?
Seriously folks...
Women (well most) do not really know how to spend money..
What I hear you say? How about all those shopping trips, new shoes, must have handbag, a little black number, not to mention the obsession with makeup and creams that promise to take years off you.. (ever wondered about those? If they really do work then most women should be going through puberty in reverse!!!).
Men on the other hand seem to know how to blow the dosh.. the capital cost of a boat will buy thousands of pairs of shoes.. Then we have to look at the upkeep? mooring, insurance, and the everso necessary high tech kit like chart plotters, radar, Dynema halyards??
Then there is the means of transport? A car is simply not enough. It has to be a Stingray or a Beema(3M) or a Hummer.. Get the picture...
So really now much do they cost?
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08-04-2012, 12:42
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Mexico
Boat: Catalina 42
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
I Know
You could never afford me love
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08-04-2012, 15:05
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Northern NSW.Australia
Boat: Sunmaid 20, John Welsford Navigator
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
I do NOT know. Never had one, never wanted one. But each to their own. 
Coops.
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08-04-2012, 15:26
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Central Florida
Boat: Reinell 26 "Tobi Maru
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Not much...a nice scotch whiskey, pair of jeans, couple of t-shirts. I think a more interesting topic would be "what does it take to run a man?"
(that should stir the ole pot)
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08-04-2012, 15:47
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
OMG! New video games system, dlsr camera, motorbike, vintage comic book collection, huge tv + full cable package + other miscellaneous electronics, car/insurance/gas, food (gosh can they eat!), beer, vacations with indoor plumbing... I don't watch TV/ play vid games or drink, I take the bus, eat modestly, love camping. In my world, hubby is the spendy one - good thing he is worth it.
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08-04-2012, 16:10
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,405
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
So in other words, you don't want to have to pay for his man-toys which cost far more than your woman-toys? 
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Life begins where land ends.
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08-04-2012, 16:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Carolina, USA
Boat: Big brick box and a '62 Airstream Ambassador. Formerly Pacific Seacraft
Posts: 1,017
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
What kind of commission are shoe and accessory brokers getting these days? 
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08-04-2012, 16:11
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Ask Zee.
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangereous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence
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08-04-2012, 16:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Montegut LA.
Boat: Now we need to get her to Louisiana !! she's ours
Posts: 3,421
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
 Connie says about 15 bucks for a jug of cheap Rum !!
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08-04-2012, 17:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: 3rd wave passed the sea wall
Boat: private yacht always moving
Posts: 1,388
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
I'm free if the women comes with a big sailboat.....
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08-04-2012, 17:09
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
Posts: 7,291
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Lessee... multihull, LiFePo4's, MPPT, more walkable solar panels, Aerogel, new triradial carbon jib...
Nah, I can't even afford ME !
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08-04-2012, 17:13
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 964
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Yawn......more postulating. Going off to dig up the "beat the dead horse" thread.
Or if it cheers you all up, I'll just bring the cross, and you can bring on the nails and hammer.
Yes.
I said that on Easter Sunday.
Cheers????
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08-04-2012, 17:15
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,405
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gadagirl
Yawn......more postulating. Going off to dig up the "beat the dead horse" thread.
Or if it cheers you all up, I'll just bring the cross, and you can bring on the nails and hammer.
Yes.
I said that on Easter Sunday.
Cheers????
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So....  ?
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Life begins where land ends.
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08-04-2012, 17:25
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gadagirl
Yawn......more postulating. Going off to dig up the "beat the dead horse" thread.
Or if it cheers you all up, I'll just bring the cross, and you can bring on the nails and hammer.
Yes.
I said that on Easter Sunday.
Cheers????
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OK try the first of these features :
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ous-79756.html
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangereous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. T.E. Lawrence
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08-04-2012, 17:35
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
Posts: 21,469
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Re: So .....how much does a man cost?
I am as cheap to run as the first mate ... IF we keep her many pairs of shoes away from the equation ;-)
Thanks gods some of her shoes ARE deck shoes.
b.
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