Becoming a Wheeler Dealer to Hide Purchases from Wife

I'm pretty content with the knives I have. Ten folders and three fixed blades. Trying to pay for my wedding in July so have no funds for knives. Once the wedding is over, I'm going to use some of the money we get to buy a CF Sebenza from KnifeArt. The rest of the money will be split between a house buying fund and a new(er) car for the fiancé.
 
my wife knows I don't NEED any knives, but as long as the bills are paid, our daughters have what they need, and she can buy a new pair of shoes, pants, or whatever trips her trigger, she doesn't get upset when I do buy another. we put priorities first, there is no need for us to lie to each other.

I will admit tho, having two teenage daughters... one in college and one in high school, im not buying grails, and she isn't buying 500 dollar purses. lol
 
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If you feel like you need to lie to your wife, you need to either stop doing whatever it is you are lying about or get a new wife.
 
Honestly, I live in a old fashioned household. I make all the decisions and my wife takes care of the house and home. It seems to be working well.
 
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I don't try to hide purchases, but I do find that more and more I have to sell one to buy one.

I enjoy showing my new knives to my wife, and I think she enjoys seeing them and that they make me happy.

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I'm with the others here. I don't hide stuff from my wife and she doesn't hide stuff from me. I buy what I want and she buys what she wants. As long as the bills get paid, everything works out.
 
I don't hide them either. I have been married for 23 years and I got past that a long, long time ago. Marriage is easier that way. We both work, we both buy things. Neither of us give each other grief over it.
 
Good wife trumps good knife.
The earlier you learn this, the happier your life will be.
:) I know; I know...either one is hard to find...
 
Once you reach a critical mass of knives in your arsenal, which I call The Powernoodle Event Horizon, they all begin to look the same and wifey never knows when you have a new one. Its helps also to marry the right woman, so that when she does see that you have a new knife, she gives you a high five instead of cutting off the lovin'.


The Powernoodle Event Horizon. Glory awaits you after crossing this magical barrier.
 
I just avoid talking about my gun and knife purchases. If she notices my knife is new I just bite the bullet.
 
No way man. My wife comes before everything and everyone. That's the deal you enter into. In fact I talk her ear off and show her hundreds on pictures of a knife and ask for her input before I buy it. She knows what I like and dislike and she knows how my head works. She also knows the finances and will do whatever it takes to get me what I want as soon as reasonable. There is no chance for success in a marriage when there are lies or hidden things going on. My wife is involved in every aspect of my life and every one of my hobbies, many far more expensive than knives and it has been an awesome time thus far. I'm excited for the next 30-40 years. Hiding stuff sucks.
 
I'm like Powernoodle. I've reached my blade event horizon. The only time I get "busted" is when she checks the mail before me, lol.
I've been married over 20 yrs. and hide nothing from my wife. She's going to find out about it sooner or later anyhow. She's going to see you using your new knife at some point.

You'd feel pretty bad if she was hiding stuff from you , right?
 
Even if I wanted to hide any knife purchases, my wife has been around me too long and is sly to makes and models. I just got a Sage 2, she handles it carefully and says, "Since when does Spyderco have knives made in Taiwan?" ha!
 
If I hide knives from my wife it is only to keep her from claiming them as her own..... She has some nice steel!
 
ISP 5353 said:
If I hide knives from my wife it is only to keep her from claiming them as her own..... She has some nice steel!
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haha! my wife liberated my sebenza because it had purple coloring in the CGG handle. again- I didn't tell her the exact cost- but added that she has expensive taste in knives.
 
Dang bet the OP was just posting a little silliness and didn't expect to get the Dr.Phil treatment.:p
 
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