Thread: JUST HAD MY REAR END CHEWED OUT

I like thebigspendur's advice about a fund for each. Problem is, I'm the one with all the expensive hobbies. I learned years ago to get some of my big-ticket items shipped to my work address, and just gradually "incorporate" them. This has also worked pretty well for me for fly-fishing stuff, too. But sooner or later they find out everything; it's just fun to play the game.

Just the other day my wife remarked that now that I had 4 razors, I shouldn't need anymore. Sheesh-I'm just getting started!

Originally Posted by nycexit2

I want guns and stuff she wont let me get one since we have lil kids in the house.

I couldn't resist this one...

That's the same reason I've heard gun enthusiasts give for not wanting straights in their home! "I can't have those things in my house, I've got kids" as he rests a beer on a box rifle rounds in his "gun den." Personally though, I'd pick straights over firearms if I had to pick one over the other.

Oh, and on the issue of expensive hobbies...my wife IS glad that I can pick up a steal on e-bay for $10-20 instead of $100-200 for hotrod parts. Razors are a much LESS expensive hobby as far as that is concerned.

Originally Posted by dyimages

Have you sent him to a good Barber for a traditional hot towel shave. I have yet to meet someone that does not love that treatment

He is too dang paranoid. It's unreal. If there really were barbers around that slit people's throats I think someone would have noticed by now. I wonder if I could give him a facial with a hot towel and sort of work him into enjoying the sensation?

Originally Posted by dyimages

I would not say my wife is mean either. it is a matter of priorities. The shaving gear I want V.S. New Reebook Goalie equipment for youngest daughter, new roof for House, Remodel of Bathroom, Hockey registration and REP fees...... that and a lack of understanding why 2 razors are not enough, I can only use 1 at a time....

The list can be pretty long and I have tried to get my wife addicted to something so that I can justify my expenses but she just does not bite. She is just a little to practical for my own good.

I'm not saying all wives that say no are mean but for a woman to collect shoes by the ton but then forbid her husband to collect razors just wouldn't be fair. I collect rocks and jewelry making tools (when I can afford to) so I accept that my husband is entitled to collect stuff too. We have an understanding that he can collect anything as long as it isn't other women.

Lori

Originally Posted by nycexit2

I want guns and stuff she wont let me get one since we have lil kids in the house.

And that is why you should have got started on them beforethe little tackers came along. I have several firearms and more knives than I care to admit, but the majority of them were before the girls came along, so a few odd additions here and there makes no difference to SWMBO.


Mick

Originally Posted by BigJim

Update: I got a gorgeous Boker I believe has NEVER been used in the mail today...

Can't say i've used any of mine in the mail either...In the bathroom and in the outdoors, but not in the mail.


Mick

I think he meant it has never been used on the male.

or at least, lets hope not

Originally Posted by MickR

Can't say i've used any of mine in the mail either...In the bathroom and in the outdoors, but not in the mail.


Mick

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I think he meant it has never been used on the male.

or at least, lets hope not

You guys are a RIOT! Good catch Mick. Here's my thread on it that I just posted FWIW: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...new-boker.html

I won't usurp this thread any longer...I promise.

With my hobby purchases I always play up "what a deal I got," and another one of my favorites is "these don't come up to often." I never lie, just play up the points in my favor.

Then maybe one out of five times, I'll be on a roll, thinking everything's going great, and she asks "how much did it cost?" I freeze in my tracks, like a deer in the headlights...

[QUOTE=BigJim;777685]I couldn't resist this one...

That's the same reason I've heard gun enthusiasts give for not wanting straights in their home! "I can't have those things in my house, I've got kids" as he rests a beer on a box rifle rounds in his "gun den." Personally though, I'd pick straights over firearms if I had to pick one over the other.


well maby its just me but i dont see why some people make a fuss about having guns and kids in the same house, i lived with my grandparents from the time i was born untill they died and my grandfather always had his 2 shotguns, a 22. and his 270. in the display case, (with no lock) and they never had an issue with me or any of there kids back in the day every touching them, nothing toward you guys but i just dont get the big fuss, if you raise a kid around guns he has a respect for them.

[QUOTE=Deerhunter1995;778513]

Originally Posted by BigJim

I couldn't resist this one...

That's the same reason I've heard gun enthusiasts give for not wanting straights in their home! "I can't have those things in my house, I've got kids" as he rests a beer on a box rifle rounds in his "gun den." Personally though, I'd pick straights over firearms if I had to pick one over the other.


well maby its just me but i dont see why some people make a fuss about having guns and kids in the same house, i lived with my grandparents from the time i was born untill they died and my grandfather always had his 2 shotguns, a 22. and his 270. in the display case, (with no lock) and they never had an issue with me or any of there kids back in the day every touching them, nothing toward you guys but i just dont get the big fuss, if you raise a kid around guns he has a respect for them.

That's not necessarily true these days. I was raised around guns but I was taught to respect them. Most of the people where I live that are of my generation were. Somehow teaching children such things has fallen by the wayside in the last 30 years. People still have guns around their children but they usually don't teach their kids anything about them other than to say "Don't touch." It's not unusual at all for me to see in the news that someone else's child has gotten hurt playing with a gun. That hardly ever happened when I was a kid. Not only do I not understand not teaching children how to be safe around guns and other potentially dangerous items I also do not understand teaching them to be afraid of them. Very simply there is a right way and a wrong way to do anything. It's best to teach kids the right way instead of fear or not teaching them at all.

Lori