How many of us are like this?
Robert
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Haha, funny, but not me. The wife doesn't know how many, how much, or even care. I am a blessed man.
Edit: She asked a few times; but, after several dozen, she quit asking and now doesn't even look up. We have a marriage of 35 years built on mutual trust.
Edit: She asked a few times; but, after several dozen, she quit asking and now doesn't even look up. We have a marriage of 35 years built on mutual trust.
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I am in much the same situation. Mrs knows but doesn't care. She says that they all look the same.
Of course I do all those household things anyway...we share the load.
Robert
Same here
I have my expensive hobbies
She has her expensive hobbies
No kids
No worries
I have my expensive hobbies
She has her expensive hobbies
No kids
No worries
My wife is my Gunbroker search engine. She pours through the listings and forwards me the ones she thinks I might be interested in.
I have to be careful that my wife doesn't claim the new firearms as hers.
There comes a point where she has no idea what is new and what isn't. Volume was the key.
Wife: You buy and collect guns, right?
Husband: Yes
Wife : How many guns a year?
Husband: I'd say average, about four.
Wife: How much do you pay per gun?
Husband: Varies, averages maybe $1,000 per gun which includes taxes and fees.
Wife: And how long have you been collecting?
Husband: Oh gosh...about 25 years, I suppose
Wife: So a gun costs $1,000 and you buy four guns a year which puts your spending each year at $4,000 for guns, correct?.
Husband: Correct
Wife: If in one year you spend $4,000, not accounting for inflation, the past 25 years puts your spending on guns at $100,000 total, correct?
Husband: Correct
Wife: And you also bought ammo, targets and belonged to a range and a hunt club, right?
Husband: Correct.
Wife: Educate me. What's all that cost?
Husband: Lemme see...rifle ammo $20/box of 20, 50 rounds/week,, 10 targets/week at about $1 each, pistol ammo $30/box of 50, 200 rds/week, targets $10, adds up to $190/week x 52 weeks = $9,880/year. Range $300/year, hunt club $1,000/year.
Wife: So that's another $11,180/year over 25 years. Do you realize you've spent a total of $379,500 over the 25 years you've been doing all this? Do you know that if you didn't fool with guns so much, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought a really nice airplane?
Pause....
Husband: Do you shoot, hunt, or collect guns?
Wife: No!
Husband: So where's your airplane?
Husband: Yes
Wife : How many guns a year?
Husband: I'd say average, about four.
Wife: How much do you pay per gun?
Husband: Varies, averages maybe $1,000 per gun which includes taxes and fees.
Wife: And how long have you been collecting?
Husband: Oh gosh...about 25 years, I suppose
Wife: So a gun costs $1,000 and you buy four guns a year which puts your spending each year at $4,000 for guns, correct?.
Husband: Correct
Wife: If in one year you spend $4,000, not accounting for inflation, the past 25 years puts your spending on guns at $100,000 total, correct?
Husband: Correct
Wife: And you also bought ammo, targets and belonged to a range and a hunt club, right?
Husband: Correct.
Wife: Educate me. What's all that cost?
Husband: Lemme see...rifle ammo $20/box of 20, 50 rounds/week,, 10 targets/week at about $1 each, pistol ammo $30/box of 50, 200 rds/week, targets $10, adds up to $190/week x 52 weeks = $9,880/year. Range $300/year, hunt club $1,000/year.
Wife: So that's another $11,180/year over 25 years. Do you realize you've spent a total of $379,500 over the 25 years you've been doing all this? Do you know that if you didn't fool with guns so much, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought a really nice airplane?
Pause....
Husband: Do you shoot, hunt, or collect guns?
Wife: No!
Husband: So where's your airplane?
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True story (so he says).
So a guy at my club is always buying, selling, trading guns, mostly pistols. He travels a bit, usually day trips but sometimes 2-3 days away, when he visits some of the better gun stores in the mid-lower North Island.
His wife sees him walk out the door with a pistol box at the start of one road trip and come back into the house with a pistol box when he returns. She usually isn't concerned, having been told too many times "Just taking/picking it up for some repairs".
One day she asked to see his new pistol, it was a blue Tanfoglio SP1. A few months later he goes to buy another gun, this one an SP2. He picks a blue one just in case the wife asked to see it.
Sure enough as he walks in the door she asks him what he's bought. He tells her it's the same pistols she saw previously, he had some work done on it and just picked it up. He opens the box and she says, "Liar, that's a different gun".
"No, no, it's the same one".
"Then how come it's a different shade of blue"?
Busted.
So a guy at my club is always buying, selling, trading guns, mostly pistols. He travels a bit, usually day trips but sometimes 2-3 days away, when he visits some of the better gun stores in the mid-lower North Island.
His wife sees him walk out the door with a pistol box at the start of one road trip and come back into the house with a pistol box when he returns. She usually isn't concerned, having been told too many times "Just taking/picking it up for some repairs".
One day she asked to see his new pistol, it was a blue Tanfoglio SP1. A few months later he goes to buy another gun, this one an SP2. He picks a blue one just in case the wife asked to see it.
Sure enough as he walks in the door she asks him what he's bought. He tells her it's the same pistols she saw previously, he had some work done on it and just picked it up. He opens the box and she says, "Liar, that's a different gun".
"No, no, it's the same one".
"Then how come it's a different shade of blue"?
Busted.
Is she any relation to Myrna Loy?
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Love that movie, has been remade a few times under different names. Poor Mr Blanding
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Knew a guy back in the 80s-90s that bought class 3 guns and usually tried to " sneak them in his house" without his wife seeing them. One day his 1917 came in and he got caught carrying it in. His wife got all uptight and then he said, oh this is————- gun, I'm holding it until his form 4 is approved. He got away with it for a few years, then she left him and filed for divorce…
I was like that but she's someone else's problem now.
Tues day I picked up a NAA 22 revolver of all things. Wife said cute.
Another project, going to get a light removable 16" barrel and a fold out single tube stock that holds spare 22 rounds.
Another project, going to get a light removable 16" barrel and a fold out single tube stock that holds spare 22 rounds.
YeshuaIsa53
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My wife says, "You're not buying any more guns."
She also has said, "Don't you dare bring that dog home" on two of my last German Shepherds. It's quiet a little while, until he lays next to her while she is snapping green beans and watching TV. She'd kill me if I posted a picture of that.
She also has said, "Don't you dare bring that dog home" on two of my last German Shepherds. It's quiet a little while, until he lays next to her while she is snapping green beans and watching TV. She'd kill me if I posted a picture of that.
Miracle Man
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I'm one of the lucky ones too I suppose. My wife doesn't get all that irate with my gun's/hunting/shooting/reloading umm hobby?
I've heard her say before she'd rather see me out shooting than running the bars. (Like her X)
I've heard her say before she'd rather see me out shooting than running the bars. (Like her X)
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My wife never seemed too concerned about my hobby, so long as the bills were paid what I did for fun was no big deal. And besides, she likes to shoot too so sometimes my new gun became hers after a trip to the range LOL!.......... Later when I got into the gun business full time it really ceased to matter at all. Now that I am semi-retired (and looking at complete retirement) it is just a hobby again and she still is fine with my interests. 40 years together, I guess I picked a really good one!
