Sneaking them in!

Idaho Jarhead

Idaho Jarhead

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I have read various posts on how to sneak your knife purchases past your significant other when you get to that point in your addiction. I don't know if this one has been mentioned or not, but here's my latest.

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and momma's getting a pink mini-grip. :thumbup: Of course, dad will be getting a blue mini grip and some sharpening supplies in the same box, but who will be the wiser?? ;)

Both are plain edge blades with the thumb studs. :cool:

So what kind of knife should she get for our 9 year anniversary in May? :o
 
Hopefully not a spey blade! :eek:

;)

I ship most of my purchases to work - partly because I don't like my money sitting on my front porch, and partly because I need time to disclose said purchase...after I try it out for a few days!

Nice score on the mini-grips! What did you buy for sharpening supplies?
 
Hahaha! Clicking on this, I thought it was about sneaking knives into secure areas.

I openly declare to my wife that I'm getting a new knife. I use them for work so that's my excuse. Hiding it or trying to anyway will just result in an argument. Better to argue about the purchase rather than arguing about why I'm hiding it from her. Or else I'll hear something like..

"So what else have you been hiding from me?"

That's not good.
 
Now that the girl know's all my knives I can't pull one over on her, and right now I think it'd be easier to get 10 knives than the motorcycle I NEED!
 
You think that's bad? After a month, I am still trying to figure out how to tell her about this:

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Taurus .454 Casull..........ssssssshhhhhhhhh :o
 
Easy, I ship everything to my office. My wife just knows that I have a lot of knives, and I think she chooses to be oblivious to the fact that my collection keeps growing, and growing....

As long as the bills get paid, she doesn't get to complain about how I spend my money. I never tell her how to spend hers. Separate bank accounts are a beautiful thing.

Idaho Jarhead said:
You think that's bad? After a month, I am still trying to figure out how to tell her about this:

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Taurus .454 Casull..........ssssssshhhhhhhhh :o
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Bwahahaha! That reminds me of the time my dad got busted by my stepmom for buying his .500 S&W magnum. Priceless! He's holding this huge cannon, showing it off to me, and she walks in the room. D'oh! There's no passing that thing off as anything else. She's standing there with her hands on her hips, and he has this slack-jawed expression on his face- like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
 
Deadhead Archer said:
Nice score on the mini-grips! What did you buy for sharpening supplies?
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Sorry DA, forgot to answer this part... Nothing special, just an ultra fine stone for my Gatco/Lansky Frankenstein.

I still can't decide which sharpening system to invest in. I am torn between an Apex Edge Pro and a set of large DMT continuous surface hones and a leather strop. Financially, its about a wash. Then there's the paper wheels that richardj keeps tauting over in the maintenance shed. Of course, you could always go with a belt sander and strop to make all your blades convex.


Ahhhhhhh.....such decisions!
 
Deadhead Archer said:
Hopefully not a spey blade! :eek:

;)

I ship most of my purchases to work - partly because I don't like my money sitting on my front porch, and partly because I need time to disclose said purchase...after I try it out for a few days!

Nice score on the mini-grips! What did you buy for sharpening supplies?
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Me too. Most of the office is knife/gun nuts anyways. It's always a fun lunch when someone gets something new. :thumbup:

She knows I've got them, but not quite how many. :rolleyes:
 
moonwilson said:
Easy, I ship everything to my office. My wife just knows that I have a lot of knives, and I think she chooses to be oblivious to the fact that my collection keeps growing, and growing....

As long as the bills get paid, she doesn't get to complain about how I spend my money. I never tell her how to spend hers. Separate bank accounts are a beautiful thing.
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Yep. That's the way I do it also. :thumbup:
 
The first 20 years that we were married she would get slightly annoyed at my knife and gun buying but over the last 20 years she sort of gave up. This will be 41 years coming up soon so I guess it will all work out.:D

BTW. I am either a real smart or real lucky man, I say smart, she says lucky.;)
 
My wife sees all of my knife purchases, she thinks a Busse FBM LE costs $100 though!
 
I use my "bonus money" from work. It's any extra money, whether from overtime, or a monetary award. I also get to take a portion of our tax return. She believes I deserve it, and I have to agree. She just has a hard time understanding that I would buy a William Henry, or a Chris Reeve knife once a year, rather than lots of cheaper knives. It would be easier for her to accept the idea of a $100 knife every so often, rather than $400-500 all at once. To her it's the price of a new [whatever we need for the house] we could be buying.

At least we're better able to afford it. I used to run up our credit cards without her knowing. I have a few knives that I "Won in a raffle" that she still has no idea what I paid for them. I'm glad my days of deception are over.

DD
 
My wife is always ordering assorted chick stuff off QVC, so she can't say much when the occasional sharp thing turns up . . .
I also enjoy swapping and trading knives when I can, which is easy on the wallet and more fun.
 
I make it a game, I see the postal notification come in, give it to her all excited and tell her it might be her present that has arrived.
When she goes to the post office to pick it up for me, I act dissapointed when it's a knife.
The shock at my behaviour detracts from the fact that it's another knife.

Then I bite her on the lip and take her out for breakfast.
 
My wife spends nothing on mad stuff so I cant justify my spending by tit for tat.:mad: She does not own a dress or a single piece of jewelry and her work place furnishes her work cloths and other that that she has one pair of hiking boots that I made her buy. When each of our kids got married, she borrowed a dress from her sisters. She did however lay claim to my 250 Savage and told me that when she goes to the closet to get it, it better be there. My 740 Mora is her favorite outdoor knife.
 
harkamus said:
Hey...it has pink on it. Maybe she'll like it!
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Looks pink in that picture, but its actually red. I am 6'2" and 190#...the recoil from a 300 grain bullet makes the finger tips sting. She is 100# soaking wet; I don't think she would like it even it did have pink on it.

Another way I have found to sneak them in is telling her its a passaround knife. :o

Ya'll are making me feel bad though, like maybe I should fess up....



Naw, she does it too. All's fair in love and war!
 
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