The Holy Grail

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I finally found it. The perfect arguement. My girlfriend told me about a week ago that I spend too much money on guns. She's a shopaholic, so I told her that I don't spend nearly as much money on guns as she spends on clothes. She said that she doesn't spend that much money on clothes, which is wrong. She does. Anyway, I told her that we can both keep track of our purchases in 2009 and see who spends more.

This is so perfect of a plan, because now she's going to want me to spend money on guns. It is more important to her to win than to complain about my reckless spending. And since she really does spend a lot of money shopping, I can pretty much afford to get whatever I want and still win.

I'm just so happy right now.

Anyone else ever come out on top in an arguement with the girlfriend/wife about guns? What was your holy grail of arguements?
 
A) My wife doesn't mind money on guns. She carries. Doesn't practice as much as she should, but what the heck.

B) She has a horse. Few hobbies on this earth cost more than having a horse.
 
Do me a favor and explain to your wife that if winning is that important she needs to get that our of her system or your marriage will not make it.

I work 10 hours a day 6 days a week and 3 or so on Sunday. Every now and then I like to go camping / fishing / hunting / shooting... I have things I am interested in. If my wife has a problem with that, then I might as well shoot myself now. My "gun" expenditure isn't going to bankrupt anyone and I can sell them and realize cash off it, unlike much of the crap that she buys... No one wants to buy used plastic flowers...
 
Do me a favor and explain to your wife that if winning is that important she needs to get that our of her system or your marriage will not make it.

I work 10 hours a day 6 days a week and 3 or so on Sunday. Every now and then I like to go camping / fishing / hunting / shooting... I have things I am interested in. If my wife has a problem with that, then I might as well shoot myself now. My "gun" expenditure isn't going to bankrupt anyone and I can sell them and realize cash off it, unlike much of the crap that she buys... No one wants to buy used plastic flowers...
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Calm down. It's not a huge deal, and if you don't ever have to convince the wife/girlfriend about your large purchases, then maybe you don't need to weigh in here. This is not a heavy arguement thread about who is supposed to be in control of the money. We're just having a light-hearted conversation about winning arguements with the women that control our lives. If a woman doesn't control your life, good for you, but maybe your $.02 isn't needed. This isn't a debate.
 
Calm down. It's not a huge deal, and if you don't ever have to convince the wife/girlfriend about your large purchases, then maybe you don't need to weigh in here. This is not a heavy arguement thread about who is supposed to be in control of the money. We're just having a light-hearted conversation about winning arguements with the women that control our lives. If a woman doesn't control your life, good for you, but maybe your $.02 isn't needed. This isn't a debate.
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Well said.
 
you both will win the game if you both agree up front that no balances can be carried month to month on the credit cards.
you can than discern which of you has the most discretionary money.
 
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I see you still have a lot to learn about women. Let us know how your plan is going in say... four months.

You horse people befuddle me. Six paid for motorcycles are much cheaper than six ''paid for'' horses. If the motorcycle just sits there it likely won't die or get too sick to ride it. Now I can't grow tomatoes with the used engine oil but all else equal I will take the bike.

The last three gun purchases were all the wife's. I got me some catching up to do....
 
you both will win the game if you both agree up front that no balances can be carried month to month on the credit cards.
you can than discern which of you has the most discretionary money.
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She pays off her balance every month and I don't use credit cards at all, but that's a good point.
 
Me and the Mrs have had similar conversations. My side is that regardless of what's purchased, the items I buy are still worth at least close, sometimes more than what I paid for the. The same is never true for her purchases.
Second, my purchases don't go out of style like her's do.
I'm sure my hobbies cost a bit more each year than her's but I'm not telling her all 'bout of them. ;)
 
See,this is why I usually buy sixguns.Not only do I love 'em,but they all look alike to Eva.I screwed up once and bought one with a bird's head grip,and she said ''what is that? ''?
 
Horses are cheap, its the hay, grain, vet and farrier bills, trailers and trucks, barns and corrals, tack, heated automatic waterers, etc etc etc, the list goes on.
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Ain't that the truth! Got a couple $6K jackets about 5 years ago and they threw a pretty decent trailer in with em. ;)

You horse people befuddle me. Six paid for motorcycles are much cheaper than six ''paid for'' horses. If the motorcycle just sits there it likely won't die or get too sick to ride it. Now I can't grow tomatoes with the used engine oil but all else equal I will take the bike.
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I do have a 33 year old Harley in the barn as my daily driver (for part of the year) It's the horses that keep me from a newer bike. LOL I can't say I regret the choices though, the horses and 4H have kept my teenage daughter out of trouble .. so far... and it gives her mom something to focus on ..instead of me and my hobbies.
Give and take, after 21 years of marriage I have learned it's all about give and take... maybe a little slight of hand too. ;)
 
light-hearted conversation about winning arguements with the women that control our lives
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Now that's a contradiction in terms.

The simple fact of the matter is that your discretionary budget is your's and her discretionary budget is hers. There shouldn't be any serious discussion about how either of you spend it because the serious discussion should have already occurred about each of you having individual personal money outside of the family budget.

On the other hand, if this is just a "friendly" competition where nothing serious is being addressed there shouldn't be any issues about control.

My wife and I don't play games about money or guns. I just spent a significant sum on a rifle. When my wife saw it she declared it to be "beautiful", which I agree with. When she tried the trigger the grin on her face said more than words. When she asked, "You are going to keep it aren't you?", my reply was "Yep, but one of the other Garands will have to go to pay for it.". Her only reply was, "That shouldn't take long to sell".
 
my wife has nothing to do with money other than spending it.. so we never have this, or any kind of money argument.

as far as winning her over to guns, once she started popping out kids and was out and about in the world all day shopping and so forth, and had a few run-ins with weirdos, all of the sudden she started seeing why i have and carry so many firearms.
 
I thought that this was going to be another "Holy Grail of Guns" thread. I was kind of looking forward to starting it over.

I guess I got it easy. I already have a decent collection of firearms. Enough so that my GF (future wife) doesn't know if I add one or two. You know all those old Mil-Surps look alike to those that aren't gun nuts. So my typical answer is, "Yeah baby, I've always had that gun." It helps that she does enjoy shooting, just has never been around guns much till I corrupted her.

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Her only reply was, "That shouldn't take long to sell".
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So hso, was she referring to your new acquisition or the Garand? If she was referring to the new rifle (meaning you need to keep the Garand) does she have a like minded sister?
 
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So during the course of this year are you not going to spend any money on clothes because I'm guessing she's not going to be spending any on guns. Just curious ;)
 
So during the course of this year are you not going to spend any money on clothes because I'm guessing she's not going to be spending any on guns. Just curious
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Hadn't thought about that. I guess to make things fair, we can subtract any of my clothing purchases from her total, and any of her gun purchases (doubtful) from mine... or something like that.
 
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