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This is where separate accounts for everything comes in handy. That, and having a spine in the first place...

My wife is so cheap that I buy her new clothes, or she'd just keep wearing the same stuff for years and years. No kidding. I have so much crap, that I just sell some stuff when I want new stuff.

selmer,

Like Ingwe, my wife and I have separate accounts both for personal spending money, and also running our separate ends of our business. As a result there's never any conflict about new guns or shoes, though she mostly buys hiking shoes and hunting boots, not "dress" shoes, and in fact hates shopping for handbags and clothes in general. The only minor conflict we have over guns is that I have more, so they take up more space in the safe.

The other day, in fact, I mentioned thinking about selling some guns as I start semi-retiring over the next few years. She got a little alarmed at that, asking why? She's a lot like the character played by Maureen O'Hara in THE QUIET MAN, preferring to "have my own things about me," even is some are mine.

Spine? Ya right. I've seen pictures of your wife and you my friend, like me, married above your pay grade. You talk tough here; but, you do as she says. Don't try to kid us.

If I had to justify my expenditures to my wife, shame on me, it would be my fault to marry her in the first place. Over 40 years of marriage and neither of us has to explain or qualify our actions to one another.

Let's not let the light-hearted tone of the thread take a turn for the serious...

Has to be painful to walk around with that stick up your @ss.

I suppose you would know with 30 pair of size 7 boots up your ass😁

Does a cash slush fund she doesn't know about qualify? 😉

You have it good, just like I do. I don't need permission
for stuff like this either.

Some of the others posting, have nose rings it seems.

Skane: Nose ring, or nut noose, which is it you deal with ?

I'm a lifelong bachelor.

So there.......


Casey

Binos no problem, a couple of guns no problem, a new car no problem, but a freaking riding lawn mower, its hell regurgitated.

Yeah, this place can make a Boudreaux and Thibadeaux joke into 9 page debate...

If you had to justify it then you have the wrong wife. Mine never questions or ask.

In sincerity, I'm at about that point. When I want something new I generally sell off something. I've got too much "stuff" and some is quite valuable. I'll be needing a new scope for the rifle I've got in process right now and one on my list is the $2500 4-16 ATACR. If I do that, I'll sell a guitar or something rather than pull that money from the family budget. I'm not in the "he is who dies with the most toys wins!" camp. I like nice stuff perhaps even more than most guys but if it's not getting used it's just a psychic drag.

They've done some interesting studies on the mental illness known as "hoarding". Don't wanna go there.

Practically speaking, too, there's just some things my lovely and talented wife just plain doesn't need to know about. That's what FedEx "hold for pickup" is for...... isn't it?

Tell her? No glutton for punishment here.

Not me. Luckily my office is only 2 miles from my house so I track my packages and pick 'em up as soon as they are delivered before she gets home .

Recently, while hiding Christmas presents, she found one of my hiding places underneath the guest bed. Apparently she couldn't squeeze the kids' presents underneath there with the 3 unopened rifle boxes.

Don't feel sorry for her though. Once a month I've noticed a big box shows up on our front door-step marked "Stitch-Fix."
it's a women's subscription. The theory being they deliver a woman clothing, and she can return whatever she doesn't want.

Not 100% sure, but, I'm pretty sure she's never mailed anything back.

Does UPS own Zappos? With free shipping and free returns, my wife alone should have put them out of business. The margins on women's shoes must be huge.

Maybe she likes using the push mower. It's probably good for her ass.

Hey honey, tracking shows my new Super sniper is being delivered today.
Since your gonna get home before me, could you get it in from the front porch ?
Thanks !

Later......
Text message reads.....
Yep, scope got here.

End of conversation until later.
That new scope sure looks good on that rifle !