I think that's the problem. I don't actually cherish them, I just sort of play them.

3 yamahas, cheap tele. three ukuleles, cheap 335, tranny amps, much despised Fender acoustic, variax, two the bloke down the road made in his shed.

the lot along a PA system would probably pay for the wife a fortnight in a residential home.

What you invest in an instrument is spiritual. Your domain. Some other clod tramping overboundaries.....its coming!