I troll Ebay nearly every day looking at kilts and kilt-related things.

Kilt bargains come up all the time, ex-hire and what have you, but they're never big enough, or if they're big enough in the waist, they're too short. (I need around a 43" waist and 25-26" length.) Or, in very rare cases, they're just the right size but made in a tartan I don't like.

Soooooo.... yesterday an Ebay auction is ending for a 42-44" waist 25" length handsewn 8-yard heavyweight kilt in a tartan I've admired for around 30 years, Stirling and Bannockburn, and the kilt is going for less than 100 pounds.

The stars all aligned, and I just couldn't pull the trigger. It was if a little devil sat on one shoulder whispering in my ear "what do you need another kilt for? You have two handsewn tartan kilts already in tartans you love. You should spend that money on a jacket, or a musical instrument, or anything except another kilt."

And there was no little angel sitting on the other shoulder to say "You know you want that kilt! It's just what you've been looking for. You love that tartan. That price is fantastic. You'll never come across that again."

And you know, over the years it's always the things that I didn't buy that I regret.