Do you tell your spouse?

[Zach S]

My girlfriend doesnt seem to care as long as we have what we need (a roof, lights, food, gas, a vehicle to put gas in, etc). The fact that I'm the only one working might have something to do with it, I honestly dont know. She doesnt fuss when I'm looking at this or that, but she will remind me of (upcoming or current) expesnses that we need the money for.

 

[smince]

I was sitting around the gun store listening to several men tell how they snuck in/hid their purchases from their wives. After a while they wondered why I was laughing at them. I told them my wife didn't really have any hobbies when we got married (17 years), so I got her involved with shooting.
She is very supportive when I want to try out a new gun, either buying or trading.

One said I was smarter than they were, and I told him I already had that figured out

You can't hide anything from your wife, and really, I'm not sure why you would even try.

 

[KC&97TA]

My wife has pretty much know about all the FA purchases and builds, she has almost as many as me, but when she was in Iraq I bought 3, sold 1 and still haven't heard the end of it... I don't think I'll tell her about the next, just to see what she says

btw: she's reading this

 

[JLStorm]

My girlfriend doesnt seem to care as long as we have what we need (a roof, lights, food, gas, a vehicle to put gas in, etc). The fact that I'm the only one working might have something to do with it, I honestly dont know. She doesnt fuss when I'm looking at this or that, but she will remind me of (upcoming or current) expesnses that we need the money for.

If I was the only one working, I would be very upset if anyone told me what I could and couldnt spend. My wife makes a good living, so I feel a little more guilty knowing that I am spending her money too when I go shooting, since every account we have is joint (not sure looking back if that was a good thing or not). If I was the only one working I wouldnt feel guilty about spending any amount of money on anything...

 

[unixguy]

My wife and I discuss all large purchases (pretty much anything over $100, gun or otherwise) before they get made. Does she "track" my purchases?

conversation we had last week:
unixguy: I think I'm going to go buy some reloading equipment instead of this ammo.
Mrs.Unixguy: Oh, OK. What kind of ammo would you have been buying?
unixguy: Oh, 9mm, .45, 12 gauge, .22.
Mrs.Unixguy: 12 gauge? Isn't that for a shotgun?
unixguy: Yeah.
Mrs.Unixguy: Why?
unixguy: For the shotgun.
Mrs.Unixguy: You don't have a shotgun.
unixguy: Yes I do.
Mrs.Unixguy: Nuh uh.
unixguy: Yeah, that's the one I showed to you 2 weeks ago after picking it up while my parents were in town? The one I stopped by to purchase with my dad?
Mrs.Unixguy: Oh yeah....

Lest anybody get the wrong impression, she is definitely not a ditz-- she keeps track of all kinds of schedules, finances, etc....things that I can't stand dealing with and she's very good at. But caring about how many guns I have is apparently not high on her priority list.

 

[.45Guy]

Fortunately I don't have that problem. Unfortunately Mrs. .45 likes to steal half of my new purchases

 

[MICHAEL T]

When I was married I had 3 guns Now I divorced and pushing 30 ain't life grand.

 

[zoom6zoom]

"you can only shoot one at a time."

One answer to this is to point at the ten pairs of black shoes in her closet, which all look the same to you. "you can only wear one pair at a time".

Or perhaps that's why I'm still single. Sometimes it sucks. But I only have to justify my purchases to me - and I'm pretty generous to myself.

 

[SILENTSOUL308]

My wife is pretty cool about my gun life, she doesnt really understand or even recognize "new guns" but i dont hide them from her. We keep our accounts separate like some of you folks have mentioned, we prefer it that way. Although I dont like to keep things from the mrs, there are some guns that its just better she doesnt know about,,,,,for her own deniability ya know? thats my $0.02

 

[grimjaw]

I have solved that problem by not having a spouse.

jm

 

[Holleta]

In my Gun room, guns appear and dis-appear (mostly appear) . In her barn horses appear and seldom dis-appear. Guns are still way cheaper than taking care of horses so we seldom give each other a hard time about our interests.