How Did This Happen? Concerned...

[evanPGH]

If you are going to continue stop telling your wife about every purchase. Quit proudly displaying the new features of different knives. You want invisibility. They should be just "the knives", nothing more. Also, get a slush fund up and running and don't get caught with it.

Either bring the knife in when the wife is gone, or if you can't wait take it out of the box, leave that in the car ( along with bag, paperwork, receipts), and bring the knife in the house riding in your pocket. Treat it like any of your other, already known knives until she goes to bed.

And, no tearful admissions. If caught don't act guilty. Just look her in the eye and say " What!?! "

Listen to this guy.

I learned that one the hard way.

 

[CyBuzz]

my wife pays all the bills so I have to buy all my stuff locally with cash that I steal from myself . The new purchases come in sans box in my pocket. Boxes, bags and receipts come in after she goes to bed. The things she does know about....well I hope when I die she doesn't sell them for what I told her they cost .
the next purchase will be tough as I don't think I will find what I want locally. I might need to get to the closest walmart and pick up a prepaid card.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Welcome to the fold. I first got bit by the knife bug back in 1975 while in college. 38 years later, I think I have somewhere north of 500 of various types, mainly US bayonets, Bowies of all sorts, Westerns and Kabars of all sorts, with a few others thrown in for good measure.

Being single, I only had to listen to my mother and my sisters grouse about my collections occasionally. My response to them was "Well, since I don't drink to excess, do drugs, chase loose women, or have any other vices, I think buying a knives is pretty benign." After a couple of times being told that, they've never bugged me again.

 

[drichardson67]

A knife addiction is cheaper than race cars or fancy women. I said cheaper; not more fun.

This thread is hilarious. But I got to say, Sunnydaze, where I'm from, dollar for dollar, I could get a whole lot more in knives than fancy women. Of course, that might be because knives don't respond to my stunningly good looks. As for the more fun part...:jerkit: