(how to) Get both.
Here's exactly how you do this:
The setup or the stalk
First, go down to as many gun stores as you can find and start picking up sales literature on some real expensive top shelf guns. Make sure you jot down the suggested retail prices on the front of the literature. Make sure you jot down the prices in an area that kinda hides the prices so she has to look hard to see them(important).
Laying out the decoys
Take her with you(important) and go looking for a birthday present.
Start looking and drooling over things like a Wilson Combat, or an Automag or a Desert Eagle or a Browning Citori. It doesn't matter exactly what gun it is, as long as it's a gun that's more expensive than the other two put together,,,it's something that you actually want(just in case she says OK buy it),,and it won't break your heart or bank account to get it.
The shot
Now that you've set things up and set out the decoys, you're ready to take your best shot. With your wife along, center in on just the 2 guns you want. Nothing else. Make sure you spend a LOT of time trying to decide between the 2 of them. Keep your eye on the ""target""(your wife) so you know when she starts to get fidgety and spooked (boredom starts to set in). Now's the time to pull the trigger! Get this really stupid look on you face,,,something akin to having just discover fire for the first time,,,and reveal to the world,,,aloud,,"Hey, you know, if I buy X, I can buy Y too and still save(use the word save<--prime importance!) enough over the real expensive gun!" The last step is usually uneeded. Usually she'll have long since offered that you get both, and figured out herself that the 2 of them will ""save"" maney over the most expensive gun you want. (2 of something for less than 1 of something is always a great idea in a wife's mind)
Sneaky and underhanded?
Yeah right,,,
you take
your wife out to shop for a bracelet sometime. Dollars to doughnuts you end up with a bracelet,AND a necklace AND a ring AND a night out to show em off.