How do you deal with the dissapointment ?

[angllady2]

Everyone has been there at one point.

You find a ball morph for sale, and this snake just blows your mind. If you live to be a hundred, you'll never find another one like this. The price is really reasonable, but you can't afford it even so.

So you stare at the pictures, you sigh and moan, you try and come up with a way to get the cash, but there isn't one. Nothing legal anyway.

Someone else will get this dream snake, and you just have to live with that. I want to know, how do you convince yourself to forget about it ?

Gale

[Danounet]

Try to make it my self with the years to come

The first time I saw a Bumble Bee I thought "thats awesome looking!"

I wasnt as impressed with the Killer Bee as I was with the Bumble Bee.

But when I went to NERD's website for the first time and I saw the Killer Bee Axanthic, I was like "I want that!!!"

It will take some time, But I will get there!

[mpkeelee]

Try to make it my self with the years to come

thats what i tell myself, then go pickup my girl and chill out and forget all about that cool morph.

[dnnsfam]

I am seeing more and more I want, but cannot afford. Its a bit heart breaking because they are so beautiful. I just keep telling my self it was not meant to be and I will find the one for me, or breed it someday.

[dnnsfam]

But when I went to NERD's website for the first time and I saw the Killer Bee Axanthic, I was like "I want that!!!"

It will take some time, But I will get there!

I am right there with you, I love any Axanthic morph. I would love to have any morph with axanthic in it.

[lesserlover]

You wait until you sale what you have to get to a place where you can buy more balls. My goal is to breed the 20 something snakes I have to get money for the next snakes to come. It is a non-porofit business so to speak.

[CA cowgirl]

I have found this to happen to me fairly frequently. One solution is that I tell myself I will get one someday if it continues to be important to me. And that is true, I have my piebald - I wished for one over 2 years before I allowed myself to buy one. Over time the price comes down and it is reachable.

If it is a particular snake (or horse) that I've fallen in love with, that is tough to handle, but I remind myself - there will always be more gorgeous or well trained or "perfect" snakes/horses and my time will come.

The other thing is that I look to my existing collection and smile, they were very much wanted and still are.

When those two things don't help enough, I scour the internet for photographs, post here and pre-occupy myself with friends family and other hobbies!

[twan]

Haha nice post god always makes a way for us to get what we want. If its under 600 im getting it one way or the other lol.

[Lolo76]

Someone else will get this dream snake, and you just have to live with that. I want to know, how do you convince yourself to forget about it ?

Gale

I just do my budget, see how broke I really am, and the desire quickly goes away. But seriously, I know what you mean!! I actually said to my roommate recently "I wish I lived in North Carolina," because somebody was selling a gorgeous pied for $600 - local sales in NC only. I honestly considered moving there for this deal, LOLOL.

[Lolo76]

You wait until you sale what you have to get to a place where you can buy more balls. My goal is to breed the 20 something snakes I have to get money for the next snakes to come. It is a non-profit business so to speak.

LOL... good line. I also keep telling myself "you can afford more when you have babies to sell!" I've been dreaming of a female lesser for months, but just can't afford one right now. So with the clutches I'm breeding this season (2 BPs, 2 corns), I'm hoping to raise enough for that lesser girl - and maybe an orange ghost or two. I already have buyers lined up, just waiting for the darned eggs to arrive.