Working to earn tradable currency might be one of the strangest things
we do. We toil all day for small pieces of paper that we immediately
turn around and trade in
for goods and services. We want and need things. So we work at a
completely unrelated task for someone else. So that they’ll give us
money. Paper. Coins. That have practically magical values, worth beyond
their corporeal reality. Which we then solve our own problems with by
giving them to someone else who, in turn, gives us the thing we wanted
in the first place. If you stop and think about any system we’ve created
as a species, it’s all a little bizarre. But, if you stop and think
about anything for long enough, it will absolutely start to seem absurd.
As a general tip, try not to do it.
Especially in terms of your own golf swing. Or golf swing mechanics et al.
But, if we must, and per the case of this blog we absolutely do, let us consider the way in which we obtain the things that we want.
In the category of consumer goods, there are a few subgenres. For example, perishable items and non. Buying things like food or gasoline is a much different experience than any of the more permanent items you might desire, like houses or paintings. And, further, there are also reusable and recyclable items. Things you might plan to use for a little while, like calendars and Christmas trees, and then send them to the curb to be dissolved and reimagined into something else. And useless stuff that you’ll probably immediately just toss in the garbage, like lottery tickets or loud children’s toys. It’s crazy what we do with our money. And, if our money equals the time and effort we’ve spent at work, then how we spend our lives.
That was a leap. Sorry. Your time at work = Money. Money (then) = Time. Life = Time here on Earth. Time here on Earth (then) = Life. Time = Life. Life = Money. How you spend your money (then) = How you spend your life.
So, if how you spend your money is as important as how you spend your life, then the most valuable and efficient category of consumer goods is the group of things you can buy that you can then turn around and sell again once done using. The category of things that might retain their value long enough over the duration of their existence with you that, at the end of their usefulness, you might recoup some of your original investment.
It’s like moisture vaporators on Tatooine. Possibly unused, unutilized, unrealized resources that could be reclaimed to the benefit of you and your loved ones.
If that reference is lost on you… I can only quote Barney Stinson. “Could you just. For once. Be cool. Okay. For once. Could you. Please. Just. Be cool. Once. Please.”
And that category of items might be the smallest. I can only think of a tiny number of things where a system of buy-use-sell-repeat exists. Musical instruments. Like the most beautiful and wonderful electric guitar I ever owned. Her name was Trinity. She was a Fender 50th Anniversary edition, American Strat Plus that I took the lace sensor pick-ups out of and replaced with two Kinman noisless SRV single-coils and a Seymore Duncan humbucker in the bridge. The humbucker was condensed to fit in a single-coil space so I didn’t have to replace the white pearl pickguard. She was translucent red. With black inlays. I don’t remember what I was talking about now…
And cars! Cars are the other major item. It’s such a familiar concept that I would be stupid to even go over it. Buy. Use. Sell. Repeat. You get it.
But there are music stores and car dealerships that accept trade ins in those worlds. You walk in with your personally owned, valuable asset, and you let the dealer look over your goods. They then offer you trade-in value for your property, you accept or decline, and then you buy something shiny and new with your credit. Or, better per the premise of the blog, you buy someone else’s used goods that they’ve restored that are still an impressive upgrade over what you had before.
And that’s why I think that Callaway Certified Pre-owned is such a valuable possibility. And that absolutely, I truly believe, needs to be investigated. It’s a relatively new concept. A marketplace for golf clubs that mirrors the car buying experience. And it needs to be grown and expanded and experienced. So that it can be just as normal and just as used. Because our clubs are still worth something to someone. And are worth even more to someone with the expertise to clean up and refurbish our old stuff. So that when it’s sold again it’s not like someone selling the old equipment in their garage on Craigslist or eBay. It’s from Callaway themselves.
So check it out. Give it a try. And tell us about your experience so we can all learn together!
As a general tip, try not to do it.
Especially in terms of your own golf swing. Or golf swing mechanics et al.
But, if we must, and per the case of this blog we absolutely do, let us consider the way in which we obtain the things that we want.
In the category of consumer goods, there are a few subgenres. For example, perishable items and non. Buying things like food or gasoline is a much different experience than any of the more permanent items you might desire, like houses or paintings. And, further, there are also reusable and recyclable items. Things you might plan to use for a little while, like calendars and Christmas trees, and then send them to the curb to be dissolved and reimagined into something else. And useless stuff that you’ll probably immediately just toss in the garbage, like lottery tickets or loud children’s toys. It’s crazy what we do with our money. And, if our money equals the time and effort we’ve spent at work, then how we spend our lives.
That was a leap. Sorry. Your time at work = Money. Money (then) = Time. Life = Time here on Earth. Time here on Earth (then) = Life. Time = Life. Life = Money. How you spend your money (then) = How you spend your life.
So, if how you spend your money is as important as how you spend your life, then the most valuable and efficient category of consumer goods is the group of things you can buy that you can then turn around and sell again once done using. The category of things that might retain their value long enough over the duration of their existence with you that, at the end of their usefulness, you might recoup some of your original investment.
It’s like moisture vaporators on Tatooine. Possibly unused, unutilized, unrealized resources that could be reclaimed to the benefit of you and your loved ones.
If that reference is lost on you… I can only quote Barney Stinson. “Could you just. For once. Be cool. Okay. For once. Could you. Please. Just. Be cool. Once. Please.”
And that category of items might be the smallest. I can only think of a tiny number of things where a system of buy-use-sell-repeat exists. Musical instruments. Like the most beautiful and wonderful electric guitar I ever owned. Her name was Trinity. She was a Fender 50th Anniversary edition, American Strat Plus that I took the lace sensor pick-ups out of and replaced with two Kinman noisless SRV single-coils and a Seymore Duncan humbucker in the bridge. The humbucker was condensed to fit in a single-coil space so I didn’t have to replace the white pearl pickguard. She was translucent red. With black inlays. I don’t remember what I was talking about now…
And cars! Cars are the other major item. It’s such a familiar concept that I would be stupid to even go over it. Buy. Use. Sell. Repeat. You get it.
But there are music stores and car dealerships that accept trade ins in those worlds. You walk in with your personally owned, valuable asset, and you let the dealer look over your goods. They then offer you trade-in value for your property, you accept or decline, and then you buy something shiny and new with your credit. Or, better per the premise of the blog, you buy someone else’s used goods that they’ve restored that are still an impressive upgrade over what you had before.
And that’s why I think that Callaway Certified Pre-owned is such a valuable possibility. And that absolutely, I truly believe, needs to be investigated. It’s a relatively new concept. A marketplace for golf clubs that mirrors the car buying experience. And it needs to be grown and expanded and experienced. So that it can be just as normal and just as used. Because our clubs are still worth something to someone. And are worth even more to someone with the expertise to clean up and refurbish our old stuff. So that when it’s sold again it’s not like someone selling the old equipment in their garage on Craigslist or eBay. It’s from Callaway themselves.
So check it out. Give it a try. And tell us about your experience so we can all learn together!
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