You know you have too many leather jackets when

[Guppy]

• You can't remember how many jackets you own.
• You have a spreadsheet so you can keep track of them.
  • The spreadsheet was necessary to keep you from buying duplicates of the same model.
  • It didn't stop you from buying duplicates, but now it helps keep track of minor variations across different years.
• Your jackets fill more than one closet.
• You built a closet/cabinet to hold more jackets.
  • Same as above, but an out building.
  • Same as above, but temperature and humidity controlled outbuilding.
  • Same as above, but pressured grown offspring to move out so you could repurpose their bedroom.
• Your wife won't let you buy any more jackets...
  • But that's not really a problem, because she can't keep track of all the jackets you have.
  • But that's not really a problem, because technically she said "new" jackets, and none of the jackets you buy are new.
• You have a daughter named "Patina".
• You buy a jacket because it reminds you of one you used to have, and it turns out to BE that jacket...
  • And you're glad to have it back, even though it no longer fits.

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[ProteinNerd]

You have more jackets than days of the week and you live in Australia

 

[Monitor]

lol Patina...

 

[Fonzie]

You have more jackets than days of the week and you live in Australia

Guilty as charged [emoji15]


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[Fonzie]

You have too many jackets when you consider an alternative posting address for the one you just bought to avoid having to come up with ANOTHER excuse to your wife in case she picks up the parcel when mail comes or are anxiously hoping it will arrive when you're home so you can quickly camouflage your new jacket amongst the herd in the closet.


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[Sloan1874]

You think nothing of getting on a two year waiting list for a jacket.

 

[AdeeC]

When it seems to take years to break in a new jacket.

 

[Peter Bowden]

You know them all by name.........

 

[ton312]

You're reading this thread and nodding your head

 

[Azog]

When your wife says, "For every new jacket you get you need to sell 5 of your current jackets."

 

[robrinay]

When you have to smuggle new ones to the back of the 'overspill' shop fitting clothes rail you keep in the garage.

 

[Sir Jacket]

You're sleeping on the streets, but at least your leathers are keeping you warm – and you're looking good (for now)

 

[Fanch]

You think nothing of getting on a two year waiting list for a jacket.

... or when you have so many jackets you don't get on a two-year waiting list.

 

[Harvie]

When you have two commercial 5 foot circular clothing racks full and have just ordered custom covers to keep dust off of them.

 

[Superfluous]

You have spent the gross national product of Rhode Island on jackets.

You surreptitiously take photographs of yourself wearing your jackets while your wife is occupied elsewhere, then post the photographs on the internet for other grown men to view.

You spend hours viewing photographs of other grown men wearing their jackets.

Your wife repeatedly says to you: "Is that another new jacket?"

You know the precise zipper on each of your jackets.

You live adjacent to a desert and own more than two jackets.

Your jacket rotation takes so long to complete that you never fully break in or patina any of your jackets.

You have a larger closet than your wife.

 

[Sloan1874]

I think there is at least one person on the Lounge who has an extension added to their home for their vintage collection. I can't quite get my head around the point at which you say: 'Hell's bells, I have too much vintage. Shall I realise some of my investment here, or shall I build a completely new storage unit for them..." and go for the latter. Actually, what's even more impressive is that their partner agreed to this too!

 

[handymike]

You post them in the Classifieds with the "thinning the herd" reasoning, but have 2 more on the way...

 

[nick123]

when you prefer the feeling of a YKK to KY.

 

[ButteMT61]

I knew when I had too many when I went by a store two years or so back, and they had a "winter coat drive" for the homeless. Forget that I had like eight new jackets with tags on, but that made me realize that I was being a glutton. No hope of breaking them all in, let alone 2-3 of them. So I took a bunch of jackets down to that store and hung them up - all with nice, wooden hangers. Felt better than I ever did buying them.
So now, if I don't see marked wear-in on any one jacket, it goes. No point - I'm getting too old to keep "collecting" because at some point you're a hoarder and your kids 'll have to deal with that...

 

[El Marro]

You think nothing of getting on a two year waiting list for a jacket.

And then decide at 12 months to put down another deposit because one will never be enough.