Very dissapointed with this forum...

Welcome to the forums, SplittinHairs! :D

Enjoy yourself, it's a great place. :thumbup:
 
Welcome aboard. I think your gonna learn to love the anticipation. It is an integral part of the whole deal. The trick is to always have something on the way. That way when one blade arrives you still have something on order. I hate the doldrums, the times when nothing is on order. And my advice is to share your love of knives with the women but never let them know what they really cost. You've picked a great first blade and what sounds like a cool combo, but my advice is to order something else fast
 
MORIMOTOM said:
we are enablers.
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Ain't THAT the truth!! :D A bigger bunch of wonderful, Kool-Aid-swilling enablers you will never see! (Even if there isn't any Scotch-flavored Kool-Aid!) :eek: Welcome to the infidiction...you'll like it here!

A girl needs a knife...
 
Welcome to the madness!

On the wife issue, you'll find that once you have a few Busses, you'll get the "they all look the same to me" from your wife. That's a good thing; it means you can buy more and as long as you don't let her see them all together, you're fine. When she sees a 'new' one, just say, "No, you've seen that one before, don't you remember?"

Enjoy!

Rick - British Pork!
 
The wife anecdotes are a crack up. I can tell there are some experienced addicts who practice the Jedi way of thinking... i.e. wave your hand in front of her face and say "These are not the knives you're looking for" and hope she walks away...

Quick true story. I also believed my wife was oblivious to my other knives. So I bought a new Spyderco (black) and figured she wouldn't know it between my regular black Benchmade EDC. Well, she saw it one morning shortly after i got it and says - when did you get that?... me playing dumb sez "This? I've had this (not a lie - i had it for a good 36 hours) -- to which she sez "no, you usually have that Benchmade but this looks like the Spydercos" :eek: :o I felt like a schmuck and yet so proud that she'd pull that out.
I learned quickly, women are experts at spotting details and change. It's this power that allows them to distinguish between 6 pairs of black high heels that all look the same to me. (Crap -- maybe she's been doing this to me all along)

I think my best course is to work out a knife/shoe exchange rate... one knife for me, one (or four -- we are talking a Busse) pairs of shoes for her.

BTW - really great to see folks saying hello -- very much appreciated.:thumbup:
 
Welcome, SH. Drawn in and sucked down into the INFI abyss from which few return unscathed. Another victim, uh..., HOG in training for you, Master Jerry. Renfield (Pete/PIGmsayre)
 
foxyrick said:
Welcome to the madness!

On the wife issue, you'll find that once you have a few Busses, you'll get the "they all look the same to me" from your wife. That's a good thing; it means you can buy more and as long as you don't let her see them all together, you're fine. When she sees a 'new' one, just say, "No, you've seen that one before, don't you remember?"

Enjoy!

Rick - British Pork!
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Hahahaha :D :p :D! That's one of the best I have ever heard (eh, hmmm..., I meant to say "read"):thumbup:!
 
Welcome to the room!

"Oh, I've had that for years, just havn't had it out in a while"

"Baby, look what I just won!"

" Just don't buy me anything for Christmas, this can be it, it just won't be here by then"

" Look at this deal I just found on Craigs List! Some bumdazz had a Busse for $30.00, can you believe my luck!"

That will help you on a few, by then you'll have all kind of ideas of your own:thumbup:
 
Ken44 said:
Welcome to the room!

"Oh, I've had that for years, just havn't had it out in a while"

"Baby, look what I just won!"

" Just don't buy me anything for Christmas, this can be it, it just won't be here by then"

" Look at this deal I just found on Craigs List! Some bumdazz had a Busse for $30.00, can you believe my luck!"

That will help you on a few, by then you'll have all kind of ideas of your own:thumbup:
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Hey, I've used all of those! (Does that make me dishonest, or just a sneaky Hog?)
 
I have a well thought out strategy to getting the wife not to freak out when she sees a new knife arrive. This strategy has worked like a charm for me:

When your wife is with you, buy a cheap knife every once in a while. Pick up a SAK or a Spyderco every now and then, and make a really big deal about it. Make sure she sees you buying it, and make sure she knows exactly how much you paid for it. This is conditioning her to think that knives cost $50 or so. Make sure you have fixed blades, too, as Busse-like as possible, as inexpensive as possible. Carry the knife around the house, play with it while you are watching TV. This conditions her to being used to seeing you with knives around. Eventually, whenever she sees you fondling a knife, she'll pass it off as your normal "man behaviour".

Now, when your Busse knives start to arrive, just act the way you do whenever you buy a cheaper knife. Chances are, she won't even notice. I've conducted tests, and discovered that my wife is completely incapable of telling the difference between a $50 knife and a $500 knife. More importantly, she is completely incapable of caring that such a difference in quality exists. So long as she never gets wind of the fact that some knives cost $500, you'll be fine. You don't need to lie to her, just don't mention that that hunk of metal you're waving around while watching Family Guy happens to cost as much as two car payments.

Most importantly, and most difficult: make sure that you still make you are still able to pay all of your bills. Because if you overspend, and have to explain why all of a sudden you can't afford to pay the electricity- then the jig is up, and you are well and truly screwed.

Also, having a safe is a good thing. You can keep anything you want in your safe, and your wife will never see it. Gun safes are to wives what makeup drawers are to husbands. My wife could have a midget living in her make up stand, and I would never know it, because there's nothing I'm interested in there. Likewise with the gun safe. Even if you didn't lock it, chances are that your wife doesn't care what's in there.
 
moonwilson said:
Gun safes are to wives what makeup drawers are to husbands. My wife could have a midget living in her make up stand, and I would never know it, because there's nothing I'm interested in there. Likewise with the gun safe. Even if you didn't lock it, chances are that your wife doesn't care what's in there.
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ROFL... Sound advice!
 
SplittinHairs said:
The wife anecdotes are a crack up. I can tell there are some experienced addicts who practice the Jedi way of thinking... i.e. wave your hand in front of her face and say "These are not the knives you're looking for" and hope she walks away...

Quick true story. I also believed my wife was oblivious to my other knives. So I bought a new Spyderco (black) and figured she wouldn't know it between my regular black Benchmade EDC. Well, she saw it one morning shortly after i got it and says - when did you get that?... me playing dumb sez "This? I've had this (not a lie - i had it for a good 36 hours) -- to which she sez "no, you usually have that Benchmade but this looks like the Spydercos" :eek: :o I felt like a schmuck and yet so proud that she'd pull that out.
I learned quickly, women are experts at spotting details and change. It's this power that allows them to distinguish between 6 pairs of black high heels that all look the same to me. (Crap -- maybe she's been doing this to me all along)

I think my best course is to work out a knife/shoe exchange rate... one knife for me, one (or four -- we are talking a Busse) pairs of shoes for her.

BTW - really great to see folks saying hello -- very much appreciated.:thumbup:
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You're right about their ability to spot small differences in details and detect weak spots in any stories - they're genetically designed that way for child rearing. If they can detect the many tricks and subtrifuges of young children and teenagers, what chance does an adult male have?

I suggest you play it straight with her (she probably won't suspect that and it will throw her off her guard) then explain that you're just ACCESSORIZING with traditional man-stuff...and ask how many different colored, different sized, different styled purses/shoes/jewelry SHE has. It worked for me.

"Bloody Bill"
 
w.t. anderson said:
You're right about their ability to spot small differences in details and detect weak spots in any stories - they're genetically designed that way for child rearing. If they can detect the many tricks and subtrifuges of young children and teenagers, what chance does an adult male have?
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My wife must be missing that gene. Thus far, I seem to have successfully outfoxed her. Though it is highly likely that she already knows all, and is simply choosing her moment to STRIKE!
 
Quote (Oh, and if you can help me with explanations to my wife? - the more creative, the better)

Brother I know where you're coming from but lets just face it and be up front : You're going to have to start telling LIES !!!!!:D
 
moonwilson said:
I have a well thought out strategy to getting the wife not to freak out when she sees a new knife arrive. This strategy has worked like a charm for me:

When your wife is with you, buy a cheap knife every once in a while. Pick up a SAK or a Spyderco every now and then, and make a really big deal about it. Make sure she sees you buying it, and make sure she knows exactly how much you paid for it. This is conditioning her to think that knives cost $50 or so. Make sure you have fixed blades, too, as Busse-like as possible, as inexpensive as possible. Carry the knife around the house, play with it while you are watching TV. This conditions her to being used to seeing you with knives around. Eventually, whenever she sees you fondling a knife, she'll pass it off as your normal "man behaviour".

Now, when your Busse knives start to arrive, just act the way you do whenever you buy a cheaper knife. Chances are, she won't even notice. I've conducted tests, and discovered that my wife is completely incapable of telling the difference between a $50 knife and a $500 knife. More importantly, she is completely incapable of caring that such a difference in quality exists. So long as she never gets wind of the fact that some knives cost $500, you'll be fine. You don't need to lie to her, just don't mention that that hunk of metal you're waving around while watching Family Guy happens to cost as much as two car payments.

Most importantly, and most difficult: make sure that you still make you are still able to pay all of your bills. Because if you overspend, and have to explain why all of a sudden you can't afford to pay the electricity- then the jig is up, and you are well and truly screwed.

Also, having a safe is a good thing. You can keep anything you want in your safe, and your wife will never see it. Gun safes are to wives what makeup drawers are to husbands. My wife could have a midget living in her make up stand, and I would never know it, because there's nothing I'm interested in there. Likewise with the gun safe. Even if you didn't lock it, chances are that your wife doesn't care what's in there.
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It is amazing how this thread got started and it has evolved to a high-caliber wife-related psychoanalysis! Not talking about nonsense here but, pure science! Very useful too! That's a good deviation!
 
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