anyone else in trouble with the wife for spending?

[TTAmoneypit]

I was into reloading when I met my wife 13 yrs ago but 2 kids and busy schedules filled with lots of mandated OT at the juvenile jail where I work put the reloading on hold for the past 9 yrs


but now fearing what is to come I have spent close to $4,000 on reloading supplies and 1 rifle

well the wife isn't very happy but oh well


she's not really really mad but she did tell me I better work more OT

but if I bring up how she spends 10-$15 a day going out for lunch with coworkers or how every 2 yrs or so she wants a new vehicle--well then she shuts up

if we added it all up I spend way less than her--i eat 1 meal a day spend maybe $20 / week for beefjerky newspapers/magazines to read at my boring 3rd shift job and I wear the same clothes, last time I bought a new pair of jeans was 5 yrs ago

and I am stuck at my 3rd shift job so I watch the kids when they aren't in school

so anyone else getting into trouble for spending money ????

 

[Sinixstar]

Not so much for spending money - but more how I spend it.
Without getting into too much detail, most cash gets socked away and we've been trying not to use creditcards at all for the last few years.
Recently bought a new rifle, and it went on a creditcard. She wasn't upset i bought it, she was upset i bought it with a creditcard.
As far as spending goes - neither of us spend much money overall, but I definitely spend more then she does. I also make double her salary - so, there's not much room to complain I don't think.

 

[Grassman]

I just don't tell her what I've bought. She don't know the difference between a BB gun and an SKS.

 

[Yoda]

I am SO lucky....

Back when Winchester announced that they were going to stop making guns in Conneticutt, my new wife of six months called me at work and suggested I get one on my way home. I had already placed one on lay-a-way over the lunch hour, but I did as I was told and bought another one on the way home.... and she was OK with that!

Now, with Obama coming in, just having two Bushmaster AR-15s wasn't enough. She had no problem with me buying two receivers, "just in case," and when my oldest son called and told me that his wife wouldn't let him buy one, he asked me to go out and get him one, so I bought two more!

My wonderful wife knows that I have this obcessive compulsion to buy everything in two's, and besides, they're "for the children..." Grandchildren, that is! Our hope is to leave at least one AR-15 to each kid!

- - - Yoda

 

[Cannonball888]

I'm the sole bread winner for the family. My wife has free use our family credit card which I pay the balance off monthly. She has no reason to argue about I buy.

 

[czkahr]

My wife has mentioned my gun spending this year, as I have gotten back into the sport, hobby, addiction with a fervor that I had 15 years ago when I had an FFL.
The Visa bill came in and she only asked ," Are you about done yet?" My reply of course was," not yet, but close to a slow down point". Good enough to end any further concern. I am also prety cheap to keep, and dont take much out of the pie for myself in any other way. I figure I am worth it, she does too. Good women are hard to find.

 

[browningguy]

Nope, although my wife deosn't actually shoot much at all, she mentiones every couple of weeks "are you sure we have enough ammo to last?". Like a good husband I order some more.

 

[model of 1905]

I just don't tell her what I've bought. She don't know the difference between a BB gun and an SKS.


LOL, thats my tactic also.

 

[Golden Hound]

I'm of the mind that if it's YOUR money that YOU earned, nobody has any right to tell you how to spend it. As long as your family isn't going hungry and has a roof over their head, it's your business and nobody else's what guns or other luxuries you choose to buy for yourself.

Obviously there are limitations to this...I mean, if you buy yourself four new guns for Christmas and don't get anything for your kids...then you're a jerk.

 

[jfrey]

Lets just say that I haven't bought myself a gun in years. My collection does keep growing however. My wife of 18 years just makes things show up from time to time. It's hard to find a good woman like that.

 

[crazy-mp]

Just do like I do wait until she is in the shower run out to the truck, spray the gun down with Cosmo line place in a pvc pipe, run out to the garden you are tilling every week or so and burry another gun, the wife cant figure out why the garden has gone from a dozen tomatoes and a few squash to five acres of corn, three acres of soy beans...

Just joking, or am I?

I have a special arrangement with my wife, as long as the bills are paid, she doesn’t gripe about the guns or ammo I buy and I don’t gripe about that new designer purse she buys, works out great for the both of us, except I need another safe now:banghead:

 

[FoMoGo]

Well... lately I have bought 1 pistol... and my wife has bought 2.
She reloads when bored... and keeps me WELL fed.
She also is the one asking me about hitting up the range.
She is a gem... the kind most men wish they had.
I am a lucky man.
If the bills dont fall behind I could get any gun that the extra in the bank will cover.
She is talking about us getting a M1A next.


Jim

 

[rojocorsa]

Nothing wrong with helping out the economy, is there?

 

[franconialocal]

*laughing*

I'm not married yet so no worries here, but I have a great story.......

One girl I grew up with in the area is still a really good friend of mine. Just so happens that she married my best buddy so.....

One day (the WHOLE day) we brought out all our "toys" and did a full top-to-bottom detail clean and inspection on every single last one. Then we cleaned the area, cleaned the tools, pondered the ways of life for a while......

Overall the process took a solid 8 or so hours. She-wolf finally came outside at some point and said "MY GOD GUYS....YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS ALL DAY!!!" commenting on how "stupid" we were, how we were "wasting our time", etc. etc. You get the idea.

I replied by saying......."Yeah...and when you disappear into the bathroom for hours on end to do your hair, makeup, try on every set of clothing you own TWICE.....is it really any different???" OH THE FIREWORKS
So now our running joke when she is getting ready is to yell out "Hey (girl)!!! Whaddaya' doin'??? Cleaning your guns???" Oh the sweet irony and payback!!!

 

[mcdonl]

After 15 years of being married, and 20 years living together I have learned ALL the tricks of money laundering and embeslement.... I save cash, hide travel re-imbursements, sell other toys (Toy equity....)....

I think that with todays economy, to spend out of the day to day income is too much for MY family to absorb, so I just get creative...

 

[hso]

I'm not sure if THR is the place to give relationship advice.

If you don't have a solid transparent system of managing the family budget that keeps all contributors informed and doesn't harm the budget then you certainly won't learn it here. If you don't think you need one, no one can help you.

When the discussion of whether we have enough AR receivers was brought up by my wife 3 months ago, I reminded her I had 2 bare receivers in the "shop". She asked about parts to complete them and I said I had the lower kits, but I didn't have the uppers. Her advice was to purchase one and wait for at least a month for the other. That was before all the panic/preparation buying occurred so we're still waiting for the opportunity for things to calm down to get the second upper. When the opportunity to get an unfired original DCM M1 Garand (one of the first 600 sold in '77) came up last weekend her question was "Did you get it?" and not what did it cost. When I handed it to her the comment was, "That's beautiful". Her reaction to the trigger pull was a big grin. It will replace my current '42 Garand, which will go to a new home to help pay for this one.

On the other hand, if the discussion had involved something frivolous that we didn't agree upon the one who wanted it would have to sell the other on why it was needed or didn't stretch the budget.

 

[thunder173]

Mentioned to my bride that I should get some reloading gear,....for about 9 different calibers,....she suggested I buy what I need before the prices go any higher,...and oh by the way,...also suggested I buy HER a 20 gauge shotgun as well,...so I did,...

geeze I luv this woman......

 

[OOOXOOO]

I only get in trouble when she finds out, shhh, she's coming.

 

[f4t9r]

Never. I wear the pants in this family.
I hope she does not get on this site.

 

[JWarren]

I've been in "trouble" for the last 3 or 4 years.

Of course, SHE was the one that bought me a Remington 870 a couple months ago as a surprise.


-- John

 

[conrad carter]

The wife understood that it was time to round up the aquisitions. I still need brass and bullets for the .10 and .50. I think most guys here know what they needed and weren't deterred.

 

[The Bushmaster]

Sounds like a personal problem. I'm not even going to get involved with this...

 

[Wolfebyte]

SWMBO put her tiny foot down and said "Enough guns... there is one in every room of the house" .. I didn't tell her there were about 5 per room.. just hidden well..

But she did say that I needed some more ammo.. especially that kind she likes to shoot..

 

[machinisttx]

Well, she did say I had to "slow down". I normally don't spend a ton of money at a time, but I buy guns pretty regularly(I don't even know how many I bought this year ). Now that I have pretty much everything I want in the way of guns, my focus will shift to mags/ammo/reloading supplies/and NFA goodies.

I expect though, that my purchases will be much less frequent since we're expecting in June.

 

[MaterDei]

I'm not sure if THR is the place to give relationship advice.

Amen to that. I hope that most of the ignorant comments in this thread are just jokes.