Here's my own evolution:
1982: a '63 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent. Bought it for $425 back then, sold it for $3100 in 2007.
Traded something for this '94 Samick Sheraton II in 2008, traded it off again when I got the next one.
The "next one" (I should call it, the "last one"). A 2000 335 that I got for $1750, including case, in 2009. I don't even look at other guitars any more.
1982: a '63 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent. Bought it for $425 back then, sold it for $3100 in 2007.
Traded something for this '94 Samick Sheraton II in 2008, traded it off again when I got the next one.
The "next one" (I should call it, the "last one"). A 2000 335 that I got for $1750, including case, in 2009. I don't even look at other guitars any more.