When is a good time to fess up

All of you married guys out there can relate. You go to your local sporting goods retailer, or go online and go a little overboard. When is a good time to break the news to the wife?

I’ve have definately learned as many have. Its easier to ask for forgiveness, then it is permission.

Well, I did just this last Friday, and was waiting for the time to be just right to tell the better 1/2. I came home Saturday to find the kitchen table littered with shopping bags. She had just gone to the mall.

OH, BUT WAIT! It was perfect timing. I had never been so happy to see Baby Gap bags lining the kitchen table.

I wasnt expecting to see a smile on her face when I showed her the Cabela’s bill.

Telling is really just tattling on yourself, ……and nobody likes a tattletail.

Tim

If you do the check book and hide money , technically the best time is when she looks at the checkbook and asks what was this for at the store? but normally no worries we usually agree on spending as we do not do as much little shopping, just bigger ticket items.

Broncs

Just write in the Check register “Gift for Girlfriend” next to the amount you spent. When she asks about your girlfriend, just tell her it was supposed to say “Sporting Goods”. She will be happy to see the reciept

Scott, your post made me think of something related from the radio this morning.

A guy is sueing a flower company for sending a bill to his house. Pretty harmless, right? Not exactly because the flowers were for his girlfriend and his now ex-wife at home found the bill.

I usually turn myself in immediately after leaving store.

Ha! You just need to establish who wears the pants in the family and things like this won’t matter!

(honey, if your reading this… I love you… and I don’t condone buying anything without my smookem’s permission )

But like I said… establish that, and it won’t matter!!!

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Telling is really just tattling on yourself, ……and nobody likes a tattletail.

Tim

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My latest method has been imeadiatly stashing new Items with EVERything else. Well maybe hiding said new iteams be hind a few older ones but what ever. Then when she catches you with new(er) iteam ( hopefully 2 months or so down the road ) You can say in all Honesty. “This old thing? Had it for a while where have you been?” If that doesn’t work RUN!

Three Words:

Seperate Bank Accounts.

-J.

I’m not married, but might as well be. My gal takes all forms of hiding and sneaking as lying. I can deal with a dirty look. I can’t deal with a lecture about lying and trust.

first off never ever volinteer information.
when i buy stuff that “I NEED” it never goes in to the house it goes straight to the garage with all the other stuff that looks like it (theres saftey in numbers)
if for some reason you do get busted take the offensive.
let me give you an example, earlier this summer i had ordered a marine band radio for the boat and it showed up on a saterday while i was out in the yard working, when i came in for lunch the wife told me i had a package and asked what it was, i said “i don’t know” well after lunch i went back outside to finish my project.
later that evening after a shower and supper we were sitting around (she made sure this package was sitting front and center the whole time, it was driving her nuts) any way i finally got around to opening it and when i did she asked what it was and i told what it was and what it was for, she asked how much it cost and i looked her right in the eyes and said “less then the new comforter on our bed” she quickly went off to the kitchen and started doing dishes. she doesn’t seem to ask about things she thinks might be new so much any more.

Secrets are lies in a marriage.

I just do not put in the check book. I have a hided spot where a will put a extra 20.00 or so and when I have the money saved up I pay cash. If I did busted I will use the 48 hour rule.

Just be honest about expenses, no matter what they are from. Money is stressful enough, but when you mix in some minor dishonesty, that is a recipe for big problems. Plus, if there is a big to do about a fishing purchase, it makes it hard to enjoy that equipment later on.

In our monthly budget, we have a “whatever” category for each of us. This money is to be used for whatever we want with no questions asked. Seems to work pretty well.

My $.02

CR

Keep’em coming boys!!! This is all great reinforcement for never getting married! At least till your 50!

I just tell her what I bought and remind her of her latest shopping trips and her walk in closet full of 15 purses, unkown amount of shoes, sweater sets, pants, shirts, oh and all the make-up…..and on and on. She never says a word after that.

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I just do not put in the check book. I have a hided spot where a will put a extra 20.00 or so and when I have the money saved up I pay cash. If I did busted I will use the 48 hour rule.

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For you guys outside the Twin Cities Metro area, you can go here to learn the definition of the 48 hour rule and others such as “FFLF” and the Three Prices You Pay Syndrom….

http://www.am1500.com/gl/lexicon.shtml

-J.

Here’s a thought…after you go out and purchase new fishing/hunting gear, you could stop off at a jewelry store and pick her up a pretty bauble. Just a suggestion and a GREAT distraction!! And usually the jewelry lasts a whole lot longer than the latest greatest fishing lure . I know that would work on me, usually more so though when it comes to snowmobiling stuff – fishing stuff, I’m usually at the store with the husband picking stuff out too!! Good luck!!

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And usually the jewelry lasts a whole lot longer than the latest greatest fishing lure .

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It better Last longer than the latest greatest lure. I’m paying 50 times more for it. ( and that’s if I’m buying a Muskie Lure) Man if I could make my favorite Lures last 1/2 as long I would get in A LOT LESS trouble for buying new stuff.

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I brought this up once and was asked “why do i need so many pairs of boots, and more then 3 hunting coats, and enough guns to arm a small army, and why on earth do i need 2 trucks” we don’t go in the closet any more.

Rules of engagement:

Please note… these are all numbered “1” ON PURPOSE!

1. Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It’s like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That’s what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem.
See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you won’t dress like the Victoria ‘s Secret girls,
don’t Expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of them makes you sad or angry, then we meant the other one

1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say “nothing,” We will act like nothing’s wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle, besides we know you will bring it up again later.

1. If you ask a question you don’t want an answer to, expect an answer you don’t want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine…Really.

1. Don’t ask us what we’re thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. You have too many shoes.
1. You have too many shoes.

Thank you for reading this.
Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;

But did you know men really don’t mind that? It’s like camping.

PS:
1. You have too many shoes.

I find the best time to fess up is when you sit down with the lawyer and have to divide assets. Other than that, if it has been in the garage for 48 hours, source and origin fall into the “I don’t know how long I have had it…forever I guess” should suffice.

Although, I am starting down the path of being single again. So my advice may be “What not to do.”

After spending a considerable amount of cash on a Canadian fishing trip(and a few stops in between) I ordered $50 bucks worth of roses for my wife when I got home, had the gal at the flower store write something gushy on a card and had them delivered to her work. Instant hero. Best $50 bucks I ever spent-not a word of “how much did you spend this trip”

belgianbuctail is right. Whenever I go on a long hunting or fishing trip I buy my wife flowers. Then I hide them around the house in a place where I know she will find them a couple days later. She has been so happy in the past I have been able to extend my hunt by a couple days.

Every woman is different. I’ve been married 5 years and I’ve been fortunate enough to have it figured out with my wife. ASK (not for permission but more for a heads-up) and don’t tell. She hates it when I tell her i’m buying something. She has her things and I have my things. She “asks” me and I do the same. Seems to be a system that works for us. Plus it doesn’t hurt that she likes hunting and fishing so she has a better understanding than most (IMO).

It was wayyyyyyyyyy too hard for me to hide things since I like to take it out of the box/bag/package and look/wear/or smile at it for the first day or so!! Busted myself a few times before we put together the “program”.

Honesty is the best policy…..when you get caught. Before that I don’t know what you are talking about

The 48-Hour Rule or “You Had Your Chance” This rule was established on March 5, 2002 and is as follows: As a reward for a fellow sneaking new and inexpensive cylinders into the Crisis Center and also escaping any female wrath that might accrue from said purchase, the fellow may make up any story he wishes after 48 hours regarding the acquisition. In other words, she gets 48 hours to notice the purchase and complain. If she misses her window, you are home free.

“This old thing,’’ you might say, when, after a week, she finally does notice, “that thing has been here since July.’’

Garage Logic

50-50-90 Rule If the husband has a 50-50 chance of being right, there’s a 90 percent chance he’ll be wrong.

Is everyone back east whooped or what????I guess that’s why I am single.Gotta find a chick that likes fishing as much as you so she wants the cool stuff.