 Poster: A snowHead
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It's always the same story....
You spend all spring and summer fighting S.A.D (Snow deprivation Affective Disorder) symptoms, being impossible to live with, moaning at the high temps..
Then you spend Autumn from shop to shop, with entire days spent browsing the net for all the gear and the bargains..You, despite having spent the previous few months convincing yourself that you had everything you needed and that last year's gear was in good shape, inevitably end up going for a spending spree of biblical proportion...making yourself feel better in the process by calculating that after having sold all the old gear on Ebay, it won't be that expensive anyway (despite the fact that you already have a garage/loft full of "old" gear that was never sold to pay the the previous year's spending)...
Autumn is also the time where most of us spend endless hours thinking and worrying about the next trip...and for the unlucky ones, organising it... The uber organised will have done that the previous winter or in the summer, but they're probably freaks so we'll just ignore them for the purpose of this study..
Then we spend most of December chomping at the bits and day dreaming about white fields of untouched snow...
And finally it's there! Deliverance!.....Happiness!.... Heaven!
But it's gone in a flash and the cycle starts again! 
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Anyway, this is mother nature's law...no point fighting it...
I therefore popped into TK Maxx this lunch time (boss not around) for a quick browse...
And of course I came out with a niiiiiiiiiiice jacket:
Orage Atmos Jacket
in this color:
black with pattern
Despite the fact that I have a perfectly good one at home! 
But at £99 instead of £350, what was I suppose to do....I am only human!   
Now I hope this post self destructs very soon cos' considering I have already bought some Burton gloves and that we got plenty of real expenses coming our way, if the wife's finds out, I am as good as dead. 
So any suggestions as to how to make the arrival of the new jacket pass unnoticed would be very welcome...
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 23-10-08 15:55; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kruisler, take the labels off, screw it up, and place at the bottom of your ski or boot bag. 2 weeks before your 1st trip, "discover it" and announce that it needs washing before your holiday. When she says "I haven't seen that before", convince her that she is losing it, and that you wore it all the time last season
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Elizabeth B,
That sounds perfect! Been there before have we? 
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Kruisler, man up, just tell her "look, I have a new jacket, deal with that".
I have a serious jacket problem, I now have 5 or so perfectly good jackets, I'm just a last seasonsjacketophobe. Jackets for all occasions is my best excuse, "this one is for zermatt in summer, this one is for cold january days, this is for the park, this is for off piste" See, I can justify them all Same goes for trousers but I have less trouble justifying them as I always wear out the ends walking on them with my gangsta steez
I feel your stress though, I've just rediscovered the dangling carrot that is metcheck weather reports, ooh ooh its going to dump, 1 day later snow is all gone and freezing levels are 4000 metres
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Kruisler, i bought the same one in an Irish TackyMax for the OH (mens jackets fit her chesticles better apparently). really nice quality eh? have you noticed the little "watch porthole" on the sleeve?
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Kruisler, ok option 3 ..... take all the labels off, say its your mates & you traded it for a xxxxxxx as it was too big/small for him 
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DebbiDoesSnow,
now you're talking!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Kruisler, i think that's the plan. any idea what the hiking suspenders are for?
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rogg,
I was intrigued by those as well. I suppose maybe it helps the jacket keep its shape and stay comfortable if you carry a lot of weight on your back (ski touring?)
I can only assume because my jacket does not have the suspenders. First thing I knew about them was from the Orage website. I fisrt assumed they'd got "lost in transit", which I ain't fussed about since I can't really see myself ever needing them. But then I noticed, from the website picture, that my jacket does not even have the (permanent looking) "loops" the suspenders attach to at the bottom/side of the jacket.
very confusing...It's definitively an Atmos as per its label and the look of everything else...but it's somehow missing things.. 
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Kruisler, but the big question has still not been answered ..... how did you get it past the wife ???
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You know it makes sense.
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Seems to me that if you all spent less on unnecessary gear you could go on more holidays and actually get to use the stuff you've already got.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lizzard,
Since when are we supposed to be reasonnable, wise and organised?
I am fortunate enough that I can kind of afford the gear...and the trips... it takes thinking but it's doable..
it's just that the OH would rather I spend that money on silly stuff like the house, family holidays or the kids....I mean, why would anyone do that????
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kruisler, I though secrets were the linch pin of a decent relationship
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Since when are we supposed to be reasonnable, wise and organised?
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You're supposed to like wintersports, not poncing around like an overstuffed clothes horse.
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I doubt any ski clothing is eternally fashionable.
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Kruisler, you are a marketing monkey's wet dream.
Personally I will be wearing my snot-green board pants until well after the colour is out of fashion. It will make me easier to spot on the slopes.
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Kruisler, In view of the very helpful and well meant advice you've received on this thread, I do feel that it would be very inconsiderate of you to post those pictures only on facebook and not share them with the masses...
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Schuss in Boots,
My life would be over if I did this!
I got to keep a minimum of dignity!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Phew, no one noticed my admission above
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You know it makes sense.
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DebbiDoesSnow,
When I put those photos on facebook, I'll be requesting yours....only fair...
"I show you mine, you me yours!"
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Kruisler, I assume you will be posting them in the Snowheads group so we can all see them?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kruisler, one of my FEMALE friends had one in those colours... were you taking the Bi thing a bit too far ??
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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DebbiDoesSnow, maybe it was before he had the op?
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Kruisler, That would explain it... it was a french bf that talked me into my first and only fartbag
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| Seems to me that if you all spent less on unnecessary gear you could go on more holidays and actually get to use the stuff you've already got. |
the other half doesn't have a jacket - i think one is quite a good idea in colorado in february, or do you think it's unnecessary - now i'm wondering does she need trousers, or would a pair of jeans do........ answers on a postcard to......
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Lizzard, I will see you and raise you on that combo when I finally get round to getting mine down from the loft !
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