Do i pick the sensible option?

ganesh

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As many of you know, the sword ban is incoming, and i have read that it may be enforced in april. Now this puts me in a pickle, as it is unknown how the law is to treat those that want to buy high quality Samurai swords and not go crazy and kill people with them.
Basically i have wanted one for quite some time now, and this incoming ban is quite the time limit. So i would like one of these three :

http://bugei.com/product_878_detailed.htm
http://bugei.com/product_599_detailed.htm
http://bugei.com/product_601_detailed.htm

However, they do not come cheap, at around £620. Excluding delivery and potential customs charges.
I do not have this money to hand, so if i was to buy one now, i would put it on some sort of 0% interest credit card whilst i paid it off (just to note, i dislike paying with credit and very rarely do so). But whenever i think of this, the sensible side of me, says that such monies will be much better spent on a car/insurance when i pass.

Yet, the more i look at the swords, the more i want one, they are incredibly beautiful and elegant. And i worry that should the ban be a total one, i will be robbed of this opportunity.

I'd also love to get a matching Wakizashi and tanto blade, yet i fear getting all of these would cost in the region of £1500 (Far far too much at the moment).

Your opinions are most welcome kind folk.

Much obliged.
 
I thought the Paul Chen blades were battle ready? So would not be included under the ban? If they are under the same ban as replica swords, then that sucks big time!!
 
I'm not sure if anyone is clear on what they will classify as replica swords or not. And these aren't Chen blades.
 
I would personally wait and start saving. As far as I know it still has to go through parliament. But it is likely to go through. Just keep upto date with what and when things are going to happen. But if you really want one then get it. As long as you can afford the repayments. Perhaps just get another part time job say on a saturday.
 
i think that spending money that you don't have, on something utterly pointless, is completely stupid.
 
Ben M said:
i think that spending money that you don't have, on something utterly pointless, is completely stupid.
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Its a decorative item at the end of the day?

Same as buying a painting or similar. Just because it does nothing "useful" does not mean it is useless. If having it there makes you happier, its not "pointless" is it?
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Its a decorative item at the end of the day?

Same as buying a painting or similar. Just because it does nothing "useful" does not mean it is useless. If having it there makes you happier, its not "pointless" is it?
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If it was a painting then I'd have said the same thing.

Spending money you don't have on something you don't need is a dangerous thing to be doing.
 
why would anyone ever need a "battle ready" sword anyway

anyway you could buy a gun from some dodgy man in the dodgy pub for that price
 
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