A moment with my wife (or "But honey, this one goes to 11..)

[Noxx]

Yesterday afternoon my wife caught me looking at gun porn.

Now, since I'm often lusting after guns on the internet, this isn't too unusual, however it should be noted that I had my wallet on my desk while I was looking at a SW500 in 4".

My wallet has a string that is attached to one of my wifes eyebrows. Wallet goes on the desk in front of my monitor, her left eyebrow goes up. It's majik. Nor do I mean to imply that my wife is a nag. She's a wonderful patient woman who puts up with all my nonsense. She's the sort of girl who will not only go get you a beer, but open it when she gets back. Because I want to keep things that way, I try not to push my luck with her when it comes to buying toys.

"Honey, are you buying that?"

Time for a quick waffle... "uhh, maybe?"

"How much is it?"

No sense lying there. I point to the MSRP. Her left eyebrow is joined by her right, and a set of pursed lips to complete the package.

"And you need that for what exactly?"
"Ummm. Zombies."
"You said the chainsaw was for zombies?"
"Well, it is yeah"
"So we're pretty well covered on the zombie front then?"
"Well...."
"Mmm hmmm."

We struck an unspoken deal, she went and got me a beer, my wallet went back in my pocket. I'd be broke without that woman.

 

[Glockman17366]

Good post!

I wait until my wife is out before I lust after gun stuff...but, my guilt feelings prevent any major purchases. Also, I'm a wimp...

 

[Bones11b]

My wife to be and I have made a firearm compromise. I can own seven pistols and seven rifles. This way If I want a new one and have reached my limit an old one has to go. I knew I was marrying the right one when I started letting her handle my finances and ended up with more money in my pocket and more toys in my house.

 

[30 cal slob]

yeesh. get a safe.

in the darkness of the safe, the guns will mate and multiply out of sight and out of mind.

 

[craig]

i have to be careful when i buy a gun, because when i buy one, then it's her turn to buy one.

 

[CajunBass]

My wife loves to shoot, and enjoys guns as much if not more than I do. However she does have a "mean streak."

After buying two SKS's and three Type 53 Mosin-Nagants in the last couple of months she said "No more guns for a while." Ok. No trouble.

So what does she do yesterday? She's setting behind me reading the SOG newsletter to me. Oh look. Didn't you say you've always wanted a Thompson? They've got 'em for only XXXXX. Wow. SKS's. XXXXX They're about giving these Russian Mosins away....

:banghead:

 

[Noxx]

Oh my wife enjoys shooting, since I introduced her to it, and has a 226 of her own. She's just a bit more practical than I am when it comes to spending money on it.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

At my house we have his and her safes. Seems every time I buy a new gun, she gets one too.

 

[GhostlyKarliion]

OMGosh

"Honey, are you buying that?"

Time for a quick waffle... "uhh, maybe?"

"How much is it?"

No sense lying there. I point to the MSRP. Her left eyebrow is joined by her right, and a set of pursed lips to complete the package.

"And you need that for what exactly?"
"Ummm. Zombies."
"You said the chainsaw was for zombies?"
"Well, it is yeah"
"So we're pretty well covered on the zombie front then?"
"Well...."
"Mmm hmmm."

sigged, soo sigged.

that's my problem, I don't have one of those female halves (right now) to keep my spending in line, so I have to try and do it alone, a man has not experienced temptation like when there is 300 cash in his pocket and a brand new AK is at the gun store, complete with full size synthetic stock and bipod, for 295, ohhhh, the horror.

 

[pax]

"And you need that for what exactly?"
"Ummm. Zombies."
"You said the chainsaw was for zombies?"
"Well, it is yeah"
"So we're pretty well covered on the zombie front then?"
"Well...."
"Mmm hmmm."

Werewolves.

Next time, werewolves.



pax

 

[springmom]

i have to be careful when i buy a gun, because when i buy one, then it's her turn to buy one.

Yup. That's our system too. Come to think of it, the last TWO were mine. Time for Archerandshooter to get a new one. (If CMP ever gets any Garands again in our lifetime....)

Springmom

 

[JLStorm]

After buying two SKS's and three Type 53 Mosin-Nagants in the last couple of months she said "No more guns for a while." Ok. No trouble.

So what does she do yesterday? She's setting behind me reading the SOG newsletter to me. Oh look. Didn't you say you've always wanted a Thompson? They've got 'em for only XXXXX. Wow. SKS's. XXXXX They're about giving these Russian Mosins away....

I think Im married to her twin lol.

My wife will do things like that just to torture me. Of course...she also doesnt notice that there is another gun in the safe later on that month. Luckily she is not as into guns as I am and has trouble telling one a part from another unless is a "pretty" gun", the ugly black ones all look the same to her thank god

 

[DogBonz]

That's why I got a big safe

Even though i only needed a small one at the time. 'Cause you know them guns... they multiply like waskly wabbits....

 

[ZeSpectre]

My wife and I run the finances thusly. We have a joint account and each of us has our own "fun" account. We have a running budget including savings and we each know how much we're supposed to put in the joint account per paycheck. Anything more than that we each keep in our own accounts to play with as we see fit. It avoids a lot of hassles.

Now my wife made me nervous a little while ago because she asked me to lay out all of my pistols at the same time and I'm thinking "uh oh, is she going to get on a kick about something" but in the end all she wanted to do was hold/handle each one to try and see what fit her best so she could decide what to train on. (See this thread , latest post #23, if you are interested in my ongoing notes about living with a gun-neutral wife (formerly gun-nervous) <grin>)

 

[Outlaw Man]

Hahaha! Awesome!

 

[Titan6]

They say money can't buy happiness but I am not so sure...

 

[AJ Dual]

The key is to have "critical mass" in the size of your collection.

If you only have one firearm, adding another is a 100% increase in the "gunnage". That's huge.

If you have twenty, it's only 5% more "gunnage". Pretty inoffensive, no?

If you have one hundred firearms, an additional gun is only a measly 1% increase in the size of your collection. Who would notice that?

My advice to every young man who's interested in firearms and thinking about getting married (unless she's a gun-nut too) is to have something over a dozen firearms going in, and a gun safe.

 

[billhilly66]

Everything is a compromise. My wife ran me off and kept the house, the truck, and the dog. (I now have a new appreciation for country music)

But I now get to live a nag-free existence and I’ve recently had to get a new safe for all the S&W revolvers I’ve bought since there’s no one to tell me I can’t.

I do however, have to fetch and open my own beers whenever one of my new “friends” isn’t around to do it for me.

 

[helpless]

"And you need that for what exactly?"
"Ummm. Zombies."
"You said the chainsaw was for zombies?"
"Well, it is yeah"
"So we're pretty well covered on the zombie front then?"
"Well...."
"Mmm hmmm."

This made my day.

 

[Aries-]

my GF does the same thing (well soon to be wife since we found out yesterday she is expecting). mind you i also like bugging her find the most expencive gun you can find and stare at it with a little drool on your lips. that will really freak her out . (i recomend the pricing page for a AWP 50, or possably some of the older 3 barreled african hunting guns)

specter thats exactly what me and my gf are gonna do. 3 bank accounts. 1 joint for paying bills and such, and stuff for the house. and one for each of us to use as a fun account, for buying gifts for eachother. cuz there would be nothing worse than putting a downpayment on a gift for her and her seeing the payment in a joint account. that would just ruin all the fun now wouldent it

 

[tinygnat219]

My spouse and I have another agreement. Everytime I get a firearm, she gets something Dolphin related. I must have every frickin' Wyland figurine made. I love my wife!

 

[Noxx]

find the most expencive gun you can find and stare at it with a little drool on your lips. that will really freak her out

She's caught me at Miltech lusting after a 1941 Johnson a few times. Needless to say that one's still at the "wish" end of the wish-list.

 

[MikeH]

Guess it's no coincidence that guys I see at the range who have the latest, most expensive, and fancy toys are mostly single or divorced.

 

[M110]

Multiple guns of the same make, you know 3 M44, or 4 RC K98's. And she only knows about the first of each set, because they all look the same to her

 

[Piedmont Plinker]

Explain to her that it is much easier to kill zombies at a distance.