How old were YOU when you...

53.  I had been reading about them on various bulletin boards (but did not yet know of this one) for a couple of years.  Finally found one on CL for an acceptable price and pulled the trigger.  Still cost more than my last 3 grills combined, but I am having a lot of fun grilling now. 

51, soon to be eight years ago. Admired them from a distance until my 4th and last steel offset grill rusted out. Now have two of them. Love being a grill geek.

56, had a good friend that got one and I said, I work too hard to not have the best so Santa brought me my LBGE. So glad my dealer talked me out of the medium. SWSBO of 33 years says she hasn't' had a bad meal off it yet.

29, as a gift from my mom.

I was around 40 and shopping at a grill store looking for some wood chunks and saw a strange green thing in the middle of the showroom floor. Loved it. The husband doesn't do change very well so we bought another gasses and then another and another. Finally I put my foot down some 25 years later and we got the egg 2 years ago. Today he was very happy with the good eats that came off the egg.

I was 30 and it was about a year of wishing until I finally pulled the trigger. it took a year because I did some research and was a student at the time. I know am looking into a second egg in the not so far away future.

I was 36 when the egg came home.  We had a rusted out gasser and was looking at replacing it.  Saw a competitor at Costo, then found this forum and was set straight.  Back that one went and I was eagerly looking for an EggFest.  Found one and ordered could not believe the food off of it!  I love it!!  Last summer had so much fun learning and testing things out.  

I got mine last month as a wedding gift from my bosses. I am 32 and a huge foodie. I work as a kitchen designer and we were talking about starting to sell outdoor kitchens and I started babbling on about The Big Green Egg and how cool they are and that we should look into selling them. I didn't think they were even listening to me and then I opened the card from them at my gift opening and there was a brochure for my Egg inside. I cried like a baby. The hubby, Eggy and I have been living in wedded bliss ever since.

27.  I bought my XL in July of last year after an end of fiscal year bonus.  I'd always had a charcoal grill and wanted something nice.  I probably use my egg 4 or more times a week.

55. A good grilling friend, who was normally a level-headed guy, got one about 5 years years ago and was constantly raving about the thing. He moved away around this same time and so I never got to try the food. Then I noticed about 3 years ago that most of the premier posters on the other forum I belonged to were switching over to a BGE. Within two years most of them had been assimilated. Got mine last August with the intent of lightening the load on my aging gasser & smoker. It lightened it all right. My BIL has the smoker and I have used my gasser 2 times since I got the Egg. 6 months later I had a second large.

16 and we're still together....Wait what was the question?

 

I got my Egg a 3 weeks ago as a 31st b-day gift from my wife.  I really was only looking for eggs for about a month or 2 after trying some pulled pork off of one.  I was trying to fine one cheap on CL with no luck.  I talked to a dealer and he told me that people love them and the only way I was going to get a used one is if I inherited it.  So I knew I was getting a new one.

Got mine two weeks ago for my 32nd birthday.  Wife was going to surprise me, but decided that spending $1000 should probably be discussed first since she's a stay at home mom.  It was totally her idea and I'm really glad she "let" me get one!

6 months ago got my XL 2 months later got my small (i was/am 28) i wanted one for about 6 months prior to getting one prior to getting my eggs i had a masterbuilt smoker and a char-broil gasser.... Got rid of the gasser and the smoker died...

I was 54 when I got my 1st egg I had knew about the BGE for about 5 or so years but never thought about buying  because of the expense ,so for christmas my wife and children chipped in and got me the large ,well since I have been egging almost non stop and wonder  how I lived with out the egg 

56 9/10.  My old charcoal grill was on its last leg.  My wife was approached about a school scrap metal drive so she thought it would be a good time and an easy way to get rid of the old grill.  My 57th birthday was coming up so she gave me the checkbook and said get a new grill.

I have a friend who is always posting pictures of things he has cooked on the grill.  When asking him what he used, I mistakenly used the g-word, gas, when referring to what he was using to cook with.  Boy, did I get an earful!  I have always loved grilling with charcoal so this worked out perfectly because my wife was pushing a gas grill and I just wasn't sure about the tanks, the lighting, etc.  So my friend helped me purchase my large BGE and a few accessories.  While we were there in the store, I saw a cool table to place the Egg in and inquired about it and bought it also.  Walla!  I have my Egg station!