Have you ever... Not told the wife?

Originally Posted by timwilky

first wife knew about my GSXR was when she found it in the garage.

Not a case of hiding things from her. She knows what I do with my money is my responsibility, and what she does with my money is none of my business.

+1, but I did have to buy my wife some jimmy choos as she pays towards my sprint

Originally Posted by maviczap

Plenty of times, its my money I earned it.

Originally Posted by Berlin

If you have to ask your Wife's permission, you married the wrong woman!

If you earn the money you shouldn't have to ask permission. You need to allow her to buy what she wants with her money though, of equal value if she's an equal financial contributor to the household. Not a problem I have as I earn about 6 times what my wife earns.

Your still in the sh!t though unless you can explain it away as an on the spot impulse buy, for "keeping secrets from her". I wouldn't ask permission, but the last two bikes I bought I gave her fair warning, showed her the advert and told her when I was going to look at the bike and that I might be coming home with it.

Just because my wife is essentially a kept woman financially, I am more than a kept man in every other respect, she is more than an equal contributor to the household, so I owe her that much at least.

That said, after you've had kids, if you are going to a strip bar, LIE!

Tell her when you're on the bike, that way you can make a swift getaway if things don't go well.

If you're married then you've kindly bought her half a bike as a prezzie. What a nice surprise

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

That said, after you've had kids, if you are going to a strip bar, LIE!

No I told mine when I got dragged round the Reeperbahn by a German colleague, I was only window shopping I didn't buy anything...... honest

[tinpants]

Originally Posted by specialone

+1, but I did have to buy my wife some jimmy choos as she pays towards my sprint

Jimmy Choo's? Are they like Refreshers, or the ones that cost a penny?










You'll probably only get this if you are, like me, over the age of 35.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by tinpants

Jimmy Choo's? Are they like Refreshers, or the ones that cost a penny?



You'll probably only get this if you are, like me, over the age of 35.

Nah you're thinking of Bazooka Joe's bubble gum, the stuff with the little cartoon wrapped around the gum

Mavic (over 35)

I told my wife I was buying a Porsche, she laughed, said "fine", I then went and picked up said Porsche, said Ta-Daaa and she went nuts!

So I told her and still got it wrong!

Originally Posted by maviczap

No I told mine when I got dragged round the Reeperbahn by a German colleague, I was only window shopping I didn't buy anything...... honest

I used to tell mine when that kind of thing happened. Almost every time I've been to a strip bar it was 'corporate entertainment', it's not like I frequent these places by choice on a Saturday night, and I've only been window shopping too. She never used to bother at all, was quite secure about it and knew I was only window shopping, and I always told her when I'd been in one. The last couple of times have been since my son was born, and complete surprise to me both times she went nuts. Insecurity has crept in somewhere, so now I just don't tell her.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

I used to tell mine when that kind of thing happened. Almost every time I've been to a strip bar it was 'corporate entertainment', it's not like I frequent these places by choice on a Saturday night, and I've only been window shopping too. She never used to bother at all, was quite secure about it and knew I was only window shopping, and I always told her when I'd been in one. The last couple of times have been since my son was born, and complete surprise to me both times she went nuts. Insecurity has crept in somewhere, so now I just don't tell her.

I'm ugly enough for her not to be worried