Well, I guess I am the exception to the rule.  My wife encourages me to buy tractors.  We went and looked at a 1955 one time, and we went way in the heck out in the middle of nowhere to find it and after we looked and talked price I asked er what she thought, and she said we drove two hours to see it so we better buy it.  She helped me turn wrenches on it and fix it up to the tune of about $3000, she loves doing that kind of thing.  And more so then turning wrenches she loves to rake hay.  She'll fight ya to rake hay.   One time when money was a little low I told her I was thinking about quiting the part time farming deal and selling the oliver and just keeping our smaller tractors.  She told me I could sell anything I wanted but not the 1955!  We seen a 1850 or 1950 the other day along a side road and she wanted to stop and look(so did I), so we stopped.  It didn't have a for sale sign on it but she wnated to track down the owner and buy it anyhow.  I told her our little 100 acre hobby hay farm could hardly utilize the big 108 hp 1955 more less another big horse.  But I imagine we'll end up with some more of the big old Ollie's somewhere along the way cause I sure like em and my wife we'll actually make statments like, "we should go out and find some old tractors to buy".