You fellas think my wife will get the hint?

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If I want a new gun, I show it to her first. She has really good taste and knows quality. Besides,what's mine is hers so we need to both like whatever it is. She has her guns and I have mine but we both approved the purchase. The lady outshoots me regularly so I can't complain.
 
GeoDudeFlorida said:
Besides,what's mine is hers so we need to both like whatever it is. She has her guns and I have mine but we both approved the purchase.
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That's the way it's been with my wife and me for 50 years. Although, I can think of a few exceptions. My wife ordered a Shiloh-Sharps .45-110 (like Quigley's) for me for our 25th wedding anniversary (25 years ago) and she didn't tell me about it, didn't even tell me she'd already paid the deposit, until the day of our anniversary.:)
I did kind of the same thing last October when I bought my wife a Ruger "American Rimfire" .22LR for her birthday. It wasn't exactly the same thing though - my wife had been looking at those little Ruger .22s for a while, and she and I together had already decided that she should get one with a composite stock so that she could just order the components from Ruger to make the stock fit - she's only 5'1" with short arms to match.
At any rate, the store where we were looking at Ruger American Rimfires didn't have one with a composite stock. So we just put it off, and as luck would have it, I ran across one just like we wanted in Sportsman's Warehouse a few weeks later - just about a week before my wife's birthday. So I bought it, and surprised her with it on her birthday.:thumbup:
 
.308 Norma said:
That's the way it's been with my wife and me for 50 years. Although, I can think of a few exceptions. My wife ordered a Shiloh-Sharps .45-110 (like Quigley's) for me for our 25th wedding anniversary (25 years ago) and she didn't tell me about it, didn't even tell me she'd already paid the deposit, until the day of our anniversary.:)
I did kind of the same thing last October when I bought my wife a Ruger "American Rimfire" .22LR for her birthday. It wasn't exactly the same thing though - my wife had been looking at those little Ruger .22s for a while, and she and I together had already decided that she should get one with a composite stock so that she could just order the components from Ruger to make the stock fit - she's only 5'1" with short arms to match.
At any rate, the store where we were looking at Ruger American Rimfires didn't have one with a composite stock. So we just put it off, and as luck would have it, I ran across one just like we wanted in Sportsman's Warehouse a few weeks later - just about a week before my wife's birthday. So I bought it, and surprised her with it on her birthday.:thumbup:
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Well, howdy-do! It's just real Nice! to hear about folks staying married that long these days. We're coming up on our 33rd and I have young people get all shocked when they find out. They didn't know it was legal to stay married to the same person that long I suppose. :(

I never understood folks keeping things from their spouses. I tell her things I won't tell myself. ;)
 
My wife is fine when I explain things to her about bulk ammo purchases.

Ok honey, go buy them new bullets for your shotgun ...
 
If I want a new gun I just buy it. I don't to ask before hand or ask for forgiveness afterward. Its my money and I'll spend it like I want. I pay 99% of the bills and buy most of the food. If I don't have the funds I don't buy. But if I told you what my gun fund has in it you wouldn't believe me anyway. Plus my wife has seen me sell several guns and make money on them. Like the Mac90 I paid $250 for and two weeks later sold for $750. So I don't have to ask. And since we are talking about it we have been married 43 years. December will be 44 years.
 
The worse my wife actually has asked of me is to wait until next pay day. She is an accountant professionally and is the family accountant domestically which I appreciate. She pays the bills, monitors our retirement investments, plans the vacations etc..etc.. All I have to do is go to work, keep up with the typical home owner chores, keep us in bullets and go fishing. Not a bad gig really, so when I ask for something it’s more for her to crunch the numbers and advise of the best plan of action as we are debt free (aside from a mortgage) and she works the magic to keep us that way.
Now the method I use to ask often becomes a game of how I ask it.
 
29 years of marital bliss today ! I had 19 years before with the Mark II and 5 years with the Mark I ; I always been married ! This one is a keeper and really gets a thrill out of me selling a life time of collecting the last few years. She put up with 25 years of me buying also . She has been to the range with me a few times over the years, and put up with my week+ long absences to attend training classes for 20 years. She went along to some out of state hunts which had nice facilities but I went mostly with friends to Alaska ,and Africa ect. She got her vacations in Europe with the girls, as I hate Europe, and she went with me to Vietnam, but NOT North Korea :) . Mostly, until 2018 I just worked and supplied her needs and wants and raised her children as she was a widow when we met with kids 10 and 14 . My other kids were in college at the time we met. Now we are all one family :) . I have three out of four sons that like guns on varying levels and one daughter in law that is an enthusiast.
If I bought a gun today my wife wouldn't flinch as she knows we will get my $ out of it at some point as I don't buy junk :)
 
When I was a teenager (long time ago) our neighbor came home from work with the most beautiful used Browning 22 Semiauto I had ever seen. After my drooling stopped the first thing I asked him when he showed it to me was how much it cost him. I figured if he could afford one my dad could afford one too. He looked at me and said that a fellow worker had "given it to him". I believed him then and for many years thereafter but now I know better. His wife must have been as gullible as I was.
 
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If I bought a gun today my wife wouldn't flinch as she knows we will get my $ out of it at some point as I don't buy junk :)
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Thats sort of my deal. My wife has seen me buy guns that I really didn't want and then turn around and sell them for more than what I paid for them. Some times a lot more. I have bought several guns from people needing money and everyone I know knows I will buy guns. I used to get offered guns a lot 20 years ago. Not so much now.
 
My wife has learned that if I seem really interested in a certain type of gun, there’s a good bet one will appear in the house soon.

She’d really rather I not buy any (she’s of the “one or two is plenty, three is a collection, and …how many do you have??” school) but tolerates it as long as I don’t advertise it explicitly. I highly doubt she’ll ever actually buy me one though. ‘Twould be lovely, though!
 
There's a dread that some of us have long entertained: That, after we die, our wives will try to sell our guns for the same price we claimed that we paid for them.
 
My wife and I have been married for 42 years now and the most she will say to me if I want to buy a new gun is "can you wait a couple weeks?"

SwampWolf said:
There's a dread that some of us have long entertained: That, after we die, our wives will try to sell our guns for the same price we claimed that we paid for them
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My wife and I talked about what my guns are worth, I think if I have an extended illness, like cancer, I will sell them and my reloading equipment, and my garage full of tools for her.

If I go quick, I keep a book in the safe with serial numbers, and cost for my guns, so she at least has a chance of not getting taken if she has to sell them for me.

As far as spending money, my wife is the accountant of the family, she knows every cent I spend. The most she does is call me and ask "Did you just buy something at so and so's?"
I'll say yes and she will just say, "Ok, just making sure someone didn't hack your card."

Honesty is the best route.
 
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