Bending the truth about the price to the wife...

[svaz]

I don't buy guns that often so I'm usually up front. Ammo, however, is estimated in cigarette packs (she smokes, I don't.)

 

[zoom6zoom]

Now you know why all these widows always sell guns so cheap!

 

[jnyork]

I'm lucky, I guess. If I come home with a new-to-me gun, she wants to know what it is and all about it. No lies for me. Or for her, I know how much she paid for those new golf clubs.

If you have to lie to your spouse, you have bigger problems than the price of your new gun.

 

[Madcap_Magician]

Tisk tisk tisk, fibbing to the wife? If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Ain't that the truth.

For better or worse, I have a wife who is moderately interested in guns, but nowhere near my level of fascination. Which means she knows all the guns I have, and we don't have a safe, so new guns can't mysteriously propagate inside.

And she does the bills most of the time.

 

[Freedom Fighter 78]

What is to be done in my situation? I have, for the most part, held back from "bending the truth". This is due to my wife not caring one bit for firearms. Thats fine by me, I do not expect her to. Yet, she can go out and spend a significant amount of $ on herself, which I do not mind, but also on (cough cough) some of the inlaws and I'm not supposed to say a peep about it. Which for the most part, I don't. But, come on now, I can't entertain my hobby cause you want to go out and spend our hard earned cash on others? Uh, , I'm not liking this picture. :banghead: Sorry for venting y'all, I just had to.

 

[jielo]

I just tell her the truth and then she usually wants to go buy herself a new one (or some clothes).

 

[winknplink]

...but also on (cough cough) some of the inlaws and I'm not supposed to say a peep about it. Sorry for venting y'all, I just had to.

Now see, in my case, I'd throw a MUCH bigger fit over that than my wife ever would over a gun I bought.

Those are fighting words, man.

 

[Rembrandt]

Doesn't matter what it cost....."It was on Sale!


(They understand that)

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I generally don't have this problem, because I don't usually spend money out of the family budget to buy guns with. I try to do odd jobs and such to fund the addiction. At tax time, she takes a certain amount and I take a certain amount. So I'm usually pretty up front about the cost. She thinks it's crazy of course but then I point out that I think it's crazy that she's carrying a $400 Coach handbag. That usuall ends it.

 

[CoRoMo]

She never really asks. If she did, I'd tell her and she'd respond accordingly, but she doesn't.

 

[ny32182]

550 --> 175 is not bent; that is broken and then doubled over backward a couple more times for good measure... heh..

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Does anyone else find it strange that a board that strives to dispel the stereotypes about "gun owners being blood-thirsty vigilantes who can't wait to shoot someone" suddenly thinks that the answer to all marital situations revolves around saying, "Dur, women own lots of shoes!"?

 

[ny32182]

I don't see what one has to do with the other, no...

 

[Justin]

You know what? The archives are full of threads covering this exact same territory.