You know you're a maple addict when....

[Cedar Eater]

..... when you spend $3000 a year on land tax, beer, snacks, equipment, chainsaws, gas and improvements to get $500 of syrup that you mostly give away.

Ain't that the truth. If it wasn't for the fact that you also hunt on that land to get $100 worth of meat after spending $1000+ on gear and licenses, it would be darn hard to justify it.

[bagpiper]

Making syrup is right up there with trout fishing ($200/lb.), grouse hunting with a dog ($300/lb.), smelting and clamming. I forgot to mention all the money saved deer hunting ($50/lb.) and keeping chickens ($10.00/doz.).

[RollinsOrchards]

When you put on a coat for the first cool day in the fall and find the pockets full of spiles, tee's, connectors, and whatnot, and instead of taking them out you decide to leave them there so that coat is ready to go in the spring.

[Maple Man 85]

When your wife has bought you a blue tooth because you've dropped your phone in a bucket of sap more than once.

[Urban Hillbilly]

Walking through the woods in the pitch dark in a suit and wing tips with your iPhone light on to find and empty the fuller buckets so no sap overflows and is wasted while you're at the office for the day.

[Islander]

...when you decline an expense paid trip to Florida after a long, dark, cold, snowy MN winter because you will be gone 1 day longer than your unattended bucket capacity can hold IF things were to be running while you were gone.

[BSD]

every where you drive you just pick out sugar maples along the road side, even at 50 mph.

[Ed R]

When you drive out in the country and at every farm you pass you envision how you can convert an outbuilding into a sugar shack.

[Stiets]

You use all your vacation and personal time from work in March and its not to go some place tropical!

That one is so true. My buddies save their time for hunting and I save my time for syruping.

[Galena]

When even on a sick day, you somehow manage the time and energy to go collect sap :-)