A similar approach I've heard (but never brave enough to do) is when you get a new car, intentionally scratch the paint yourself.
Then you won't be as concerned about the inevitable dings and scratches it will accumulate.
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I live in the rust belt, where cars only look new for the first 3 years or so. After that, they are 100% guaranteed to have chips in the paint from 18-wheelers throwing rocks, rust on the frame/fenders from the salt, and dings from other people parking 6 inches from your door.
And if you own a prius in the midwest, it's not a matter of IF someone will key it in the parking lot of home depot, it's a matter of WHEN.
> And if you own a prius in the midwest, it's not a matter of IF someone will key it in the parking lot of home depot, it's a matter of WHEN.
I live in Texas, where I'd expect such behavior before I saw it in the midwest; parking lots are awash in Priuses, and no-one seems to bat an eye at it. Maybe it's that I live in a city. Where in the midwest would you expect this?
Probably some rural areas. There was one sparsely populated area in Northern Wisconsin I was told avoid ordering food at non-chain restaurants. They would happily try to kill you or make you sick if you had a food allergy.
Having grown up in Wisconsin, I absolutely believed that. I went to high school with people like that. And they got it from their parents.
My dad heckled me for getting a Prius and buying Apple products.
It makes me really sad because they aren’t representative of the majority of rural people I know.
Anywhere >1 hour away from a city
Damn, people need to get a life.
Reminds me of an old freestyle motorcycling video I saw.
This guy had a new dirt bike and said ”Yeah you’re always a little hesitant with a shiny new bike, afraid you’ll scratch it up. That’s dangerous when doing these big tricks so I like to throw the bike and scratch it up intentionally to get over that fear. Then the tricks go flying”
So he throws the bike and breaks the clutch lever. But they were in the sand dunes in the middle of nowhere to shoot this stunting video and the ride back to civilization wouldn’t come until evening. He did not get to ride that day.
Best thing that happened for my wife and my marriage was the flooring people doing a shitty job before we moved into my house. She shrugs off every scuff I put in the floor with "it's crappy anyways"
Some guitar players do this. Scratch a new guitar so they can get over feeling like they need to treat it with great care.
I got a new car last August, noticed like two months in that someone lightly scratched/bumped the rear left bumper. Oddly enough it's almost a good thing because now I'm not as scared anymore
An acquaintance claimed to know someone who would use a bat to make the first dent in any new car he purchased. But that could be one of those stories that just travel around.
I intend to resell my car, so not going to do that, but I like the idea. Very stoic-adjaecent
You're lucky you don't live in a larger city. It's impossible to keep it 100% scratch/dent free unless you 100% of the time park in your own garage. Even if you park your car in underground, private for-profit garages, it'll eventually end up with a scratch/dent somewhere, somehow.
Yeah, I live in the middle of nowhere and it's far better this way. I just get cat and raccoon footprints on my roof.
This is why I buy used guitars.