Can you add to this list, ways to determine a teardropaholic? Here are few to start it out.
101 ways to know if you are addicted to teardrop trailers. (under construction)
1. You vividly remember your first teardrop sighting, either on the road or on the internet.
2. You take naps during lunch because you were up all night thinking of how your first build will be.
3. Your dreams consist of building teardrop trailers.
4. Instead of going to the grocery market for essentials like food, you sneak out to the local home improvement store to look at tools.
5. You read more handy man magazines than before.
6. You quit watching TV, because you are on the TT & TTT forum searching for teardrop designs.
7. You convince yourself you can get by on 3-4 hours sleep per night.
8. You have searched and found EVERY possible website that has something to do with teardrops, or vintage trailers.
9. You've considered getting a different/easier day job to co-exist with building a teardrop.
10. You start clearing your garage so that you have room to build a teardrop.
11. You cannot imagine life without having at least one teardrop, or trailer.
12. For your birthday, you ask for something related to teardrops, or camping.
13. For your birthday, your friends buy you something related to camping.
14. You use to have time for other hobbies.
15. You try to pass your teardrop addiction onto your other friends.
16. Your idea for a vacation is finding the best camping spot somewhere.
17. You get caught by your boss surfing the TT & TTT forum during working hours.
18. You decide the only man/woman you will marry has to enjoy camping.
19. Your family coat-of-arms features a profile of a teardrop.
20. You start filling your yard up with old trailers and potential equipment for TD building ... wife calls it JUNK!!!
21. You buy another HF trailer because it is on sale and you can use it to "build a practice trailer, just to determine what build techniques, and features I really want."
22. You start looking at light fixtures in a totally different way. Can it be converted to 12 volt DC & 120 volt AC.
23. You find yourself on E-bay junking the cast iron for all those dutch ovens, waffle irons and skillets to keep up with the rest of the possessed teardroppers.
24. You know the exact amp draw and wattage of every small appliance available!
25. You have committed to memory the width and length of every standard size mattress available, including futons.
26. You long for a new truck so you can haul that 140 lb. DO that you saw at Cabela's, and also more camp comfort stuff.
27. I bought a new truck to haul my camping stuff. And yes, I do have a 20" DO from Cabelas.
28. You are reading this because you need assurance that you are still OK, and kind of normal.
29. First one is finished. Second one is almost finished. Have frame and planning third one.
30. If you walk into various Walmarts to score new teardrop gear, hoping to find something new each time.
31. You might be addicted if you look at other peoples photo's looking for ideas.
32. You buy stainless steel screws in boxes of 100 and still don't have enough.
33. You search Craig's List every day for stuff that might be useful for a teardrop.
34. You find yourself looking for "retro" stuff just to help create the mood you want to achieve.
36. If you find yourself looking at other people�s scrap wood thinking I could use that piece for this project.
37. If you find yourself camping in January, because spring is to far away to wait.
38. If you start storing pieces of ply in the house to keep them from warping in the heat.
39. It's REALLY bad when your teardrop has it's own website, and business cards.
40. You get bored in between builds, go to the shop in the wee morning hours, and start building a scale model of teardrop.
41. You want a custom blanket to decorate your teadrop, and seek someone who can sew it for you, or make it yourself.
42. You find yourself awake in the middle of the night and the first thing you do is check onto a forum to see what new pics you might have missed.
43. You occasionaly cruise alleyways looking for other teardrops or TTTs and then re-visit the alleys that you've spotted them in for ideas.
44. You spend $1200 on your teardrop and haven't even started building it yet.
45. The Mrs. starts cleaning the shop by throwing out all the pieces of scrap plywood and you get the shakes because you just know that you are going to need some of those for cabinet work.
46. Looking at Steve Frederick's build photos, and realizing you may need a few more clamps of every kind.
47. You search the internet for every possible LED source to choose your lighting fixtures.
48. You contemplate how you can install a toilet, or shower into a 5x10 or smaller teadrop..
49. You might be addicted if you start collecting those tiny miniature kid toys that look like a teardrop, or trailer behind a matching car.
50. You know your addicted when you start applying tatoos with pictures of teardrop or trailer themes on yourself.
51. You know your addicted if your wife, family, or friends start referring your trailer project as the "other woman".
52. You are addicted when you already finished your teadrop, then start building teardrop shaped dog houses.
53. All the vacation photos you take show your teardrop from every imaginable angle.
54. Shopping for household items that can be used double duty, ie. buying a futon couch to use the mattress in your teardrop.
55. When your dogs show disappointment that you are not going camping this weekend.
56. You know your addicted when at home you run to one of your trailers to retrieve backup kitchen condiments or supplies.
57. When you see an old pop up, boat, or little flat bed trailer and think, how you could build a nice teardrop on that frame.
58. Your spouse is now pointing out possible build materials to use in your trailer build. Usually it was the other way around when you spotted it first.
59. You sketch out pictures of your trailer to show people what you have, or better, a photo album of your trailer on your cell phone.
60. When you sneak away to the garage to take a nap in the tear.
61. You enjoy watching television outside from your trailer, more than inside your home .
62. You pick out a cute name for your trailer, or if you can't make up your mind, you poll the forums to help you come up with more suggestions.
63. You are addicted if instead of showing pictures of your family vacations/campouts, you carry a baby book photo album of your build pictures.
64. You might be addicted when your entire "leisure" wear apparel is nothing but T shirts from various gatherings and you buy a couple just in case you ruin one.
65. Break out the vintage camping gear! You are now searching for vintage stoves, lanterns, and flashlights. The new stuff stays at home!
66. You give up other addictions for teardrop addiction. If you quit smoking can add $120 a month to the build budget. You also consider giving up other food concessions, ie. soda and beer could add another $75-100.
67. Addictions to trailers means you got to have the special license plate that either matches the year for vintage trailers, or a vanity plate that matches your personality, or nickname you picked.
68. Dreaming how you can build more teardrops, and stay within a budget...
69. You are addicted when you are sketching profiles of teardrops on the back of the church bulletin while you are still in church!
70. God knows you are addicted when in your prayers you ask for anything having to do with teardrops.
71. You are addicted to teardrops when you start creating screensavers and desktop backgrounds with trailer photos for your computers.
72. You are addicted when you find a fixer trailer for sale in another state, and for a brief moment you consider making the trek to pick it up.
73. You are addicted when you make up an email address to reflect the name you have just given your trailer. ie. (trailername)@hotmail.com
74. When you send out Christmas cards with a picture of your trailer instead of the family picture.
75. When you have more pictures of your trailer than have of your kids.
76. When your girl friend starts spotting TDs on the road for you.
77. When you've landscaped the area around your trailer's outdoor parking spot to look like a campground.
78. When you start making Holiday ornaments to look like teardrop trailers.
79. You start freaking out when the forum goes down for one day during upgrades. Then you try to logg back on every 10 min. Hoping you get connected again.
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101 ways to know if you are addicted to teardrop trailers...
101 ways to know if you are addicted to teardrop trailers...
by cuyeda » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:20 am
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