i have ocd when i buy new stuff, i like it to be treated with pride.
Not to detract for the useful info likely to be posted in this thread, but lemme tell you a little story Mr. OCD. Once upon a time, we bought a bass boat. A real nice Skeeter, paid a lot of money for it. We lived near Lake Bridgeport, so it was a natural purchase. I was really proud of that boat. When we first put it on the water, I "over supervised" the wife and daughter about driving it, getting too close to things, and generally being an *** about it. To the point where they didn't want anything to do with it. While out, we decided to have lunch on the far side of the lake. Just to be clear, I had no idea how to drive the thing either. So when we came into the dock, we were going too fast. WHAM - punched the hell out of the dock. Blew a chunk of gel coat off the bow and generally scraped up the right side a little. The main point here - after that, we had a lot of fun with the boat. Tie up to stumps, run up on gravel, etc. I got over that "new boat" thing right after the impact. I maintained it and took good care of it, but we could USE it and no worry about bumping it into something or otherwise damaging it. It could be fixed. Got 3/4 of our money back out of it when we sold too - try that with most boats.
So now, when we buy something new - just about anything - my wife and I say right off "You gonna run it into the dock or should I". When our $35,000 Super Crew was new, the wind blew the door into a fence post and put a scuff on it. "It's just a boat, there will be more" and I use the hell out of that truck still.
My advice to you is to go drop something on the driveway, spill something, let the dog pee on it - anything to get past your "OCD it's new" business so you can USE it and have fun with it. Driveways fade, crack, get scarred, etc. It'll be OK.
hey, such a product COULD exist, right????
