Well, my wife tolerated all my gear for 10 years but now she wants her living room back. My argument was that the only place for the TV would be the fireplace and the mantle is way too tall to mount it above. We have been there and done that in this house. We also now have 2 home offices which just leaves us with our bedroom so there just isn't another place for everything.
We discussed how we could just have the fireplace redone which turned into talks about redoing the kitchen, knocking out a wall, getting all new hardwoods, rebuilding the layout of the laundry room and new tile in the kitchen and bathrooms.
At that point I just decided it would be best to move into a bigger house. Mind you that this was to be our very affordable retire home which is why we added a pool and outdoor kitchen.
After looking at a bunch of houses we couldn't find anything that we liked, more than our little house, that wasn't 3x the cost of where we are now. We almost pulled the trigger on one of them which was a beautiful 4 bed, 3 bath and HT room on 1.5 acres. I didn't have one single good night of sleep since we had found that house and then I came to my senses and remembered that I probably have 10 good working years left in me and there is no way that I was going to take on a huge note in an area that had taxes twice what I pay now plus I hate yard work.
We talked and agreed that we can go ahead and do what we want to our house with plans of always having it. We have builder/remodeling team coming out next Monday to go over everything and get some pricing.
The thought of knowing we have 10 years left on the mortgage and if we had to, we could pay the note off at anytime, without hurting our savings, led to some awesome sleep every since the decision.
I will miss my gear and settle for some inceilings and a TV on the fireplace. I probably won't even have a sub as we don't want the floor space taken up.
There is a chance that my best friend whom just purchased a house with a HT room will buy all of my gear. That would be just awesome as I could still enjoy it from time to time.
When I look back of some of the crazy stuff I had, I am surprised she let me keep it this long...lol