Buying new guns and staying out of the doghouse

I know my comment about being divorced and buying what I want was somewhat flippant, although true. But all the talk of using subterfuge to mislead the significant other is kind of disturbing. Unless it is mostly for the benefit of this thread, I have a hard time believing so many people would want to conduct their relationships that way.
 
The most my wife ever asked me about any of them was "can we afford it?" If I say yes, then there's nothing more that needs discussion. Now days, she usually doesn't bother to ask, I suppose after 30+ years, she's either come to trust my judgment, or resigned to her fate. :rolleyes:

If she asks at all these days, its usually "what did you get this time?" IF she bothers to ask.

Last time she asked, I showed her the Luger, and her response was "ohh, pretty!"

She's about as far from perfect in her own way as I am in mine, but she's a "keeper". :D
 
How to get a new gun....

Without my wife killing me!!!

So I have an addiction to buying guns. I love everything about guns. My wife and i made an agreement to 1 gun per year... But being an addict its more like 3-4. In order to bring these guns in under the radar i go out and do layaways or create a sock money stash little by little so she wont notice much missing. Then i use excuses like my dad bought this one, im borrowing or holding for a buddy, i won it at a competition, won it in a raffle, i traded it for another on, or sometimes i just sneak them in if they easily blend in. Well im about 50$ from paying off a layaway from buds on a new turkey shotgun for the upcoming season. And i have to figure out a way to intro this one in to the environment without her knowing i paid 500$ for it. So someone give me ideas, oh and quit buying guns is not an option.
 
If you fell you must keep it secret from her(F.W.I.W. not a thing I suggest doing) then get a gun safe(a big one, as a second one would be real hard to explain), don't give her the combination and bring then home and put them into the safe when she is not home. ;)
 
id like a safe but i like my gun cabinet for my long guns. plus a safe would cost me a good 4-500 bucks ouch! Oh im not keeping anything from her i just need an excuse as to why i got the gun. I just dont have to tell her i bought it!
 
When my wife asks me how many guns I have I tell her, "Nunja." When she asks me, "What's Nunja?" I reply, "Nunja business." She actually thought it was funny the first time but decided to change my response the next time she asked me the same question. I told her, "You have the combination to the safe, go ahead and count them yourself and remember that when I'm gone you will be able to sell them for large quantities of cash."
 
Just be honest and fair.... And make sure the money is extra... I believe if I get something I want, then it's only fair that your partner gets something they want too..... Never take away from family needs...

But just be honest, even for an impulse buy.

Luckily my mate now loves guns as well
 
my wife is super nice, she doesn't really care. I just make sure to buy her lots of stuff to, or force her to go out shopping for herself.....it's actually pretty hard to get her to spend money.

BUT, she knows that she has a nice new car that costs about 400 a month, and I drive an old beat-up 230k mile 2001. She always nags me to get a new car, but I tell her at the moment I would rather spend the money on my gun hobby. i'm hoping to keep it running another ten years
 
Get a good gun safe, and keep most of your guns locked up and out of sight. Some how its hard to justify why you want or need another gun when someone can see ALL OF THEM grouped together. Hell, I can't even think of a good reason to get another gun when I see them all together, and I'm real easy to convince myself with any reason. :D
 
My wife doesn't worry about it. I buy, sell, and trade pretty regularly, so there are always guns going in and out of the house. The majority of my purchases are financed by sales and because I try to buy right, I usually do pretty good when I sell. Heck, almost everything I've put into my '66 Thunderbird, from the initial purchase to all the repairs, upgrades, and modifications, has been almost completely paid for by gun sales.

In addition, she has a bank account of her own that money goes into every payday that is hers to with as she pleases. I don't know how much is in there, what she uses it for, and I don't ask. Finally, and this is important, she is like purses - Coach, Dooney & Bourke, etc - so a couple of times a year I'll get her a surprise from one of those places and that helps, too.


ETA: Oh yeah, one other thing, if you can't really afford it don't buy it. Nothing -CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED- a woman off more than being irresponsible with the money that puts food on the table, a roof over her children's heads, or clothes on their backs.
 
First off, women can read your mind, so there is no way you'll be able to hide this from your wife, at least not for long. When the time of outing happens, she'll make a bigger issue out of you hiding the fact you didn't tell her than if you had told her from the start. This will inevitably lead to "you prefer a gun over me."

You're going to have to place at least as much investment in attention to her as what you put into the weapon, is the way I see it. Of course, I'm divorced and have no current girlfriend, so I wouldn't fault you for taking my advice with a grain of salt. LOL.
 
as others have said why hide something, my wife knows about everything and we manage our expenses jointly (if i want to get something and it is within the budget it is purchased end of story, same goes for her). she will know about it before I buy, and vise versa. happy happy this way
 
I tell me wife AFTER I've purchased a firearm - being that said I keep my purchases within reason (like not buying a gun every week: A.K.A. - Being responsible). I also have a "gun-fund" which I put money aside to spend it on guns or gun-related stuff.
 
I thiNk my wife has given up. When I bought a new pistol a couple of weeks ago, I said "this is the last one". Like she always does, she said "that's what you said the last time".
 
Happy Wife, Happy Life :)

But...she knows I have a stash and hates it :mad:

Strangely, she doesn't have a fit if I just buy whatever out of our accounts.
It seems that buying stuff on the sneak irritates her much more than the actual purchase.

I am having a bit of trouble getting DW Valor and a nice welder past her though... the problem is she knows I'll use both about as often as she wears the 100 or so pairs of shoes buried in the back of our closet.
 
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