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gk5717

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Has this ever happened to you? The wife comes around and ask can we buy "whatever" and say it cost $75.
You look at her and say, "Do we really need it, it cost $75?"
With that the door bell rings and it,s the UPS guy with a package of soldiers.
I open the box and there is a bill for $500.
You get my point!
Gary
 
gk5717 said:
Has this ever happened to you? The wife comes around and ask can we buy "whatever" and say it cost $75.
You look at her and say, "Do we really need it, it cost $75?"
With that the door bell rings and it,s the UPS guy with a package of soldiers.
I open the box and there is a bill for $500.
You get my point!
Gary
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Are you in the dog house then? :D

Jeff
 
aujj65 said:
Are you in the dog house then? :D Jeff
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As that great sage Clint Eastwood once said in Magnum Force, "A man's got to know his limitations." You did not post your wife's response. SO, have you reached your limitation yet?
 
Funny - Now use a TOY SOLDIER CALCULATOR when the wife wants things or we are out shopping :D Let's see that is the cost of K&C COMET SET - those are a couple of OLD GUARD NAPOLEON Figures, etc, etc,.........
 
I was told I had spent too much on toy soldiers within the last month, to which I replied, "Yes but it is still much less than I would have spent on cigarettes for the same period of time". I said I can always stop buying toy soldiers and go back to smoking.................funny that the conversation stopped right there :D :D :D
 
That's not a problem for me because my wife and I will discuss purchases over the $100 mark. ;)

It helps to keep peace in the house, :D Plus... she 's the one that usually signs for the packages. :eek:
 
skeeterbuck said:
That's not a problem for me because my wife and I will discuss purchases over the $100 mark. ;)

It helps to keep peace in the house, :D Plus... she 's the one that usually signs for the packages. :eek:
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So lots of $99.00 purchases - eh ? :D
 
gk5717 said:
Has this ever happened to you? The wife comes around and ask can we buy "whatever" and say it cost $75.
You look at her and say, "Do we really need it, it cost $75?"
With that the door bell rings and it,s the UPS guy with a package of soldiers.
I open the box and there is a bill for $500.
You get my point!
Gary
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That's the reason why my wife and I have an agreement on how much to spend monthly on hobbies and "whatevers"...
;);)

By the way, Gary: Did she get "whatever" she wanted?
:D

Cheers...

Uthred
 
My wife text me earlier saying she's off to montreal end of the month to train some people. She said we can always use the $. I text to buy little men? she said no, i text her a shocked face :eek:
 
Guys, I didn,t mean to sound that exact scenerio actually happened. But my point was we will have a slight disagreement on some purchase for the house and I will question whether that is a wise choice for spending a few dollars and I will then think to myself, geez I just blew $500 on toy soldiers, who am I to question appropriate spending.
Having said that, she used to raise her eyebrows years ago when I collected baseball cards but when I sold some and had a sun room put on the house with the profits, she pretty much leaves my hobby spending up to me.
Gary
 
I have a simple solution, once a year I transfer a lump sum into wife's house

hold account then never see another bill till next years transfer.:D

She really doesn't care what I spend (she did comment today about yet

another package):D it really works out terrific!

I do cover my motorcycle insurance (one payment a year) and SSR (Classic

car policy very reasonable). Wife even covers my gas card.:)

I do cover entertainment, diner out, gifts, and would you like that?:D
 
gk5717 said:
Guys, I didn,t mean to sound that exact scenerio actually happened. But my point was we will have a slight disagreement on some purchase for the house and I will question whether that is a wise choice for spending a few dollars and I will then think to myself, geez I just blew $500 on toy soldiers, who am I to question appropriate spending.
Having said that, she used to raise her eyebrows years ago when I collected baseball cards but when I sold some and had a sun room put on the house with the profits, she pretty much leaves my hobby spending up to me.
Gary
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Yea Gary, I think that we understood where you were going with your original post. That's what life about... compromise. ;)
Before I placed my most recent soldier order, I have been working on re-doing our sun porch on our home. My wife has wanted that done for some time now. She'll enjoy the remodeled room and I enjoy my new Frontline Crimean 8th Hussars and 4th Dragoons when they arrive. :D
 
When my wife sees me with the toy soldiers, painting or whatnot, she's just happy I'm not out in a bar.:)
 
Russell said:
When my wife sees me with the toy soldiers, painting or whatnot, she's just happy I'm not out in a bar.:)
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You know thats a great point! Your also not out gambling like all those Flashy

Casinos were built because everyone that walked in the door left a winner!

A well thought out collection can bring years of pleasure and retain or

increase in value with a little luck.:)
 
Russell said:
When my wife sees me with the toy soldiers, painting or whatnot, she's just happy I'm not out in a bar.:)
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I used to tell my wife, when we were still engaged, it could be much worst than toy soldiers: I could expend money on gambling, drinking, smoking or partying, right?
:rolleyes:

Now she started to believe that, and she tells her family and friends, when they raise an eyebrow (and they do) about my hobby: Toy soldiers are the least troublesome way a man expends his money.
:D

It's probably true. Her father has been smoking two and a half cigarrette packs a day for over 35 years!
:eek:

He could have bought a container load of toy soldiers instead, I guess...
:cool:

Cheers...

Uthred
 
Sometimes my wife has come home from work telling me I'm great.:) I look up from whatever I'm doing, look around and wonder what I did. Actually it's nothing I've done. At work she's just heard some horror stories about some husbands or boyfriends of her colleagues :eek::rolleyes:. And then smiling and talking to myself, in a rather perverse way, I thank those guys for screwing up. They've made my life just a bit better.:D

The weekend is just about here. Wishing you all a good one.
 
The other night my wife and I were watching TV - some Star Trek story about the Cristies Auction with all the left over props and models.

So they went to the Star Trek Conventions and started interviewing the participates - with their out fits and at that moment - my wife turned to me and said - "Thank God - You Collect Toy Soldiers as Your Hobby !" :D
 
Capitolron said:
The other night my wife and I were watching TV - some Star Trek story about the Cristies Auction with all the left over props and models.

So they went to the Star Trek Conventions and started interviewing the participates - with their out fits and at that moment - my wife turned to me and said - "Thank God - You Collect Toy Soldiers as Your Hobby !" :D
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Ron , your clutching at straws when the upside of collecting toy soldiers
is your not a trekkie :D. I,m sure in the insanity stakes we rate slightly
above them but i,m not sure most people would say by much .
 
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