Interesting what direction this thread has gone. I don't think that I stated myself very well in the first place and it immediately went off on its own. That's okay with me, we are all just talking here. But my intent was not to talk about wearing out ukuleles and how long that might take, or even if it is possible, it was about getting rid of them as fast as you buy them. I think when I started the thread that there was a lot of chatter going on about resale values, how well particular ukuleles held their value over time, how popular they were in the Marketplace, and my thought at the time was "who the heck buys a ukulele and one of the first concerns they have, before they even buy it, is how well it will hold its value and how easy it will be to get rid of?" So I still wonder that. I'm sure there are people who take that into consideration. And when I talked about keeping them forever, it wasn't about how long it would hold up to playing it, it was about how long people plan to keep them before they dump them and get something else. So let's take it in that direction and see if it can go for at least a few more pages.