New US display completed (for now)

[WarPig1976]

Being a bachelor does have its up sides. Military equipment displays in the dinning room, building that dream motorcycle in the living room. Walking around in your underwear or free balling if the mood strikes you. Beer can pyramid in the bathroom, panties for lamp shades, two buddies around that after three days you have to ask to leave because all the beer is gone and the party ended two days ago....I miss being a bachelor....

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[burb1989]

Thanks you guys for the great comments. Believe it or not warpig I'm not single and she actually let me put this display together in of all places my(our) bedroom because I had the space and she wanted me to do something while I was on break from work. She's just as interested in my collection as I am, granted with less enthusiasm but she tolerates the amount of stuff I buy since it makes me happy (besides being with her of course). Sometimes I have to justify why I would spend so much on some items but the argument quickly gets dissolved because she knows I only buy what I can afford and reasonably put back into my bank account.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Being a bachelor does have its up sides. Military equipment displays in the dinning room, building that dream motorcycle in the living room. Walking around in your underwear or free balling if the mood strikes you. Beer can pyramid in the bathroom, panties for lamp shades, two buddies around that after three days you have to ask to leave because all the beer is gone and the party ended two days ago....I miss being a bachelor....

You have mostly described the benifits of being a young bachlor. Let me add a few old bachlor benifits. Outside of work and the obvious family stuff weddings, funerals, etc.. If you do not feel like doing it ,well
you just don,t. This leaves lots of free time for helping friends with projects , gun shows, fishing,hunting etc...
Bonus : No trade offs New Enfield = new dress.
Oh, and more time to visit the nice folks here from around the globe.

[burb1989]

There are a couple of other items I would love to add to my US collection if I can find them at a decent price. The first would be a complete ww2 USMC helmet that might've saw combat. Next would be a ww2 USGI M1 carbine (I have a carbine but it is a post war carbine made in Florida). I already have a Remington 1903 and an H&R M1 Garand so those rifles are covered. Then I would love to add some more Vietcong and NVA bring backs as those are sorely lacking in my collection (I have two rifles and the flag but that's about it). I have a line on two Vietcong canteens that a friend of my dad's brought home so maybe he might sell one or both if I can get to them. There might be some other items I might want to add later but I can't remember any others at the moment.