Hiding Purchases From Your Significant Other

[Brandon]

I always tell my wife when I am going to buy a new gun. I'm just afraid she will sell them for what I told her I paid and not the actual price when I'm gone! Haha

 

[jdinny]

on a side side note i have a "cash jar" which i used for my benalli M2 when i bought it and it goes towards big more selfish purchases. she is aware each month how much i put into it and some months i dont put any away.this last go around i used the fkr for repairing a vehicle so that sucked balls.

 

[NDwalleyes]

After 20 years of marriage boys I'll give it to you strait up.

The first 15 years of marriage are tough, raising kids, money gets tight, no free time, you want this and she wants that! The trick here is to compromise, find common ground and activities you both like, and this is the kicker....find things you like to do TOGETHER and spend money on those activities. You will like your ideas more than hers and visa versa, but over time you will learn and enjoy new things together.

After 15 years, your kids start moving on. Driving cars, time with their friends, jobs... and off to college. Things get quiet. Then one day you look at this woman you married 20 years ago....and you realize.... it's just you....and her.

If you were wise and spent your money on things you both enjoy during the first 15 years, you now find yourself with a hunting and fishing partner to replace your kids who are off in college. She didn't like hunting/fishing when we met but she loves it now. I wasn't a big fan of gardening 20 years ago either...but we enjoy doing that together now too. Our list of activities is long, but we still have our individual things too.

Learn to like the things she likes. Get her involved in what you like to do. You married because you like spending time together, don't make hunting and fishing a guys only thing.

On slow days....you can do a lot of things in a deer stand or boat with your wife....other than look for deer and fish.

 

[johnr]

Solid, ndwalleyes

 

[RustyTackleBox]

my suggestion is just say "I've had it a while" but then again... my wife doesn't get too upset with my purchases because I pay for most everything and I usually talk to her before I get something... on the shotgun thing my wife (we were dating at the time) almost shit herself when I got a benelli vinci and found out how much it was... now she wants a springfield EMP and she will get it

 

[Brian Halse]

Never, never, ever , lie or hide things from your wife. Just be honest and tell her it is for her protection.

 

[jdinny]

ndwalleyes you are spot on like I mentioned in my first post I include them in all my hunting and fishing and we enjoy it together as a family. been with this women 10 years and hope to be many more

 

[Bed Wetter]

On slow days....you can do a lot of things in a deer stand or boat with your wife....other than look for deer and fish.

Like tell jokes? She's heard all my jokes already...

 

[Hookin8easy]

Lots of great advice already said, there was a time I was younger and dumber and what I can say is that white lies may seem insignificant but will lead to a lack of trust, non of which lies might have been deal breakers themselves but a lack of trust is.....at least that's how my ex explained it. Oh and btw...no need to keep receipts..the lawyers won't need them. Now have you we shouldn't have married in the first place, that one was on both of us.

 

[NDwalleyes]

Like tell jokes? She's heard all my jokes already...

I generally wear deodorant on those days when you know it's going to be slow.

 

[wby257]

Your a big boy and she knows it. If your scrapping to pay the bill at the end of the month you cant afford it. If your living comfortable you can afford and she wont say a word.

 

[Sum1]

When I told people I was getting married nine out of ten friends that were married said "what the hell are you thinking". Only one congradulated me. That should have been my hint. Ten years into it I still wish I would have taken their advice and ran like the dickens. Anyway good luck. Your gonna need it.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

NDW,
Well said!

 

[JayKay]

Like tell jokes? She's heard all my jokes already...

Most guys (I absolutely include myself here) like to tell the same stories over and over. Just tell the joke. It's no difference to the tongue-in-cheek reference to "other things to do in the boat".

 

[shorthairsrus]

don't worry about the wife --- if your buying a gun you going to need to hide it from the govt soon with all this BS happening. 80-20 rule --the 80% lose all the time.

 

[johnr]

When I told people I was getting married nine out of ten friends that were married said "what the hell are you thinking". Only one congradulated me. That should have been my hint. Ten years into it I still wish I would have taken their advice and ran like the dickens. Anyway good luck. Your gonna need it.

That's terrible.

I give thanks everyday for my beautiful wife, and I am being dead serious.

I would hate to go through the rest of my life without her, on the other hand if I didn't like her or our time together, I would likely make changes.

 

[snow]

Think about the freedom your giving up,you sound worried already...Me? my golden is happy with everything I bring home,even a strange lady once in a while...

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Think about the freedom your giving up,you sound worried already...Me? my golden is happy with everything I bring home,even a fat ugly chick once in a while...

Fixed it for you

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Your golden must enjoy the smell of fish.

 

[snow]

Haha! they looked fine when we left the bar!

Fixed it for you

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Your golden must enjoy the smell of fish.

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Haha! they looked fine when we left the bar!

Haha....yep they always do!