OK guys here it is. 2 weeks ago for our 20th anniversary I promised the wife that the 1/72 scale Flower class corvette I was buying would be the last model I bought for a while.[:)]
It’s no secret that I favor 1/350 ships and Star Trek models. The wife knows I’ve been drooling over the Trumpteer 1/350 WW2 carriers since they were announced. [:D]
This weekend I saw one of the Essex’s on e-bay with a starting price of $74.99 (w/10 for shipping), and no bids. I couldn’t help myself. I bid on it with a top of $80.25. I wasn’t going to go any high under no conditions.[:p]
To my shock I won it with the opening bid. The auction ended last night and I had to tell her. SHE WASN"T VERY HAPPY.
She decided that to atone for my sins, Next weekend, I have to buy her a new outfit. This is a woman who over 23 years has never asked my to buy her clothes tell this year (I also had to buy her an outfit for our anniversary). [:0]
The pain of it is. The same seller has a “Yorktown” for sale with the same starting price and no bidders with 2 days left. I had to just fight the urge to bid on that one too. It’s not that I can’t afford it. I Can. But I can’t keep from buying the ones I want so bad. [}:)]
wayne,
Good idea. I’ll start. These are in no particular order:
Step 1: Before buying that kit, buy your wife something of equal or greater value that she wants.
Step 2: Grovel as necessary. Flowers, jewelry, and/or candy may be in order.
Step 3: In an attempt to win ANY potential sympathy, admit you are a low-life scum.
Step 4: Use any reason or logic possible to enforce your position: Tell her you got the best deal anywhere. Inform her of how much money you saved buying it here versus buying it there.
Sounds like you need to pull a “first strike” on this one Tim.
Atone for the past with the new outfit, a fine meal at her favourite restaurant, and go above and beyond with a few other trinkets or one big “surprise” gift.
I had to make a promise to myself that I wouldn’t buy any more kits until I finished all of my collection if I would get myself the Heller HMS Victory kit. If I get the Victory I have to promise myself no more kits until all are built. But it seems like I promised myself I wouldn’t get any more kits before I started thinking about the Victory. There’s just too many special kits out there that you’ve got to have.
With your supply of pink bathtubs, why would you want a victory kit Robert?
Therriman. Its called kit hording and its a sickness. Resist. As much as possible. Or…buy your wife a horse. After that. The skys the limit on e-bay my man. No questions.
Actually you could sit down with her and explain what the deal is on the Yorktown and see if she’ll go for it. She may be delighted that you “consulted her first”. Or you could keep to your original promise and consider this a trial of wills.
To continue with Gip’s intervention plan…
5. Explain that ever since you were a little boy it was your dream to own all these kits. As the little playmate down the street lay dying in his bed clutching a kitten he with his last breaths made you promise to carry on with their pact of friendship together to build everyone of the WW2 carriers as they became available. (girls are all about the kittens and deathbed promises…)
6. Fall down on the floor kicking and screaming, writhing around like Curley from the three stooges till she gives in. (it seems to work for the little snot nose across the street, his wife let him get a motorcycle that way)
7. Be a man and demand, nay command to her that you are the boss, master of your household and she must obey you and to know her place. You will buy whatever you like and she should go to the kitchen to make a sandwhich for you to consume as you create this masterpiece in plastic. Maybe when you get out of the hospital she’ll let you get it as a means of physical therapy and to keep you occupied as you wait for the sandwhich to slowly works it way out of your nether regions and ear canals.
Let me know if any of this works. Will you? I’m looking at one of those big tigers…
Tim,
Do like I do with my wife - do something completely above and beyond the call of duty that makes her feel like the most important person in the world (well, she is, isn’t she?), THEN, when it’s evident that you can do no wrong, spring the Yorktown on her. Or suggest it’s what you’ve always wanted and maybe she’ll TELL you to bid for it.
Or like Mike said - consult her FIRST, and explain why it’s a necessary buy. Take her out for dinner and buy some flowers and tell her how special she is to you. That’ll probably help - or buy her another outfit and tell her how nice she looks in it (and mean it!!).
Your models are obviously special to you, she just needs to feel that she is too (do you hear the voice of experience here?).
Good luck and tell us how you get on…
Cheers,
LeeTree
I tried #7 once. The doctor says the ringing in my ears may never go away[B)].
Wife says any hope I have relies on me following Gip’s advice. As if I haven’t been for 20 years. Lets face it, this is one of those situations where the only hope I have for redemption is $.
Plastic addiction is a disease. Let your wife know that without new plastic you’ll go into withdrawal symptoms and they are truly fearsome to behold. You might try throwing yourself on the ground and froth at the mouth mumbling gibberish, but she may just equate that to the usual Sunday afternoon football behavior of most males of the species. Other than that, I have no other winning strategies except to 'fess up when you get caught, and don’t get caught often!!! [:D][8D][:D]
I use reverse psychology. Due to her numerous purchases(shoes, more shoes, and shoes) she doesn’t blink at my modest purchases. If I were you, I would tell her that you had to buy it, otherwise you might do something really uncharacter- like. [}:)] Seriously, do like my friend and buy her something that she’s wanted for ages. She won’t even realize what you did. Don’t forget to tell her you saved money by getting it at a bargain price. My wife uses that one alot. Lol [:(!]
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
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[}:)]Yeah, you tell her! And remember you’ll have much more time to build the Yorktown (even the entire Pacific fleet) now that you’re going to be celibate the rest of your life. . . [V]
My girl is an ANGEL. She knows that while I have a big box of plastic parts in front of me I am not out on the tiles. I just tell her I don’t drink (much) Don’t smoke,don’t hang around with strange women. Regular treats help as well. Even just an unexpected bunch of flowers gets you brownie points. Or a ten minute toe rub works wonders.
JIm,
Your advice doesn’t count…you’re not married–yet…[:D]
The only reason she is so tolerant and patient, is because the only thing on her mind is getting you down the aisle… after that, all bets are off…[:D][:D]
i sit around the house and looked depressed, and when she ask me what wrong i look at her say nothing. Then a few days go by and she is tired of this and made the comment “Lets go to Hobby Lobby, i need some material”. Gotch ya.
Here’s another thought that works for me. After 20 years of kit collecting I have some that I don’t like as much anymore and I have a few extras from when I bought more than one of a particular subject. In order to make room for new kits on the shelves and in order to help pay for the new acquisitions, I simply sell some on ebay and then use the money to buy more! My wife doesn’t keep track of my PayPal account, so what she doesn’t know won’t hurt me!!
therriman it’s simple tell her you won it as a door prize at…model club/ model show/ online contest.
If that doesn’t work you could always tell her the people a FineScale Modeler asked if you would build the kit and do a Workbench Review.
Maybe mention the horrible skin rash with pustules that you’ll get if you can’t touch the vital, rejuvenating plastic of the Yorktown kit