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Paybacks from Wives?

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I'm curious how wives deal with us gentlemen
spending so lavishly on our old cars.
Paybacks I call them.

I'll start-

$3,000. visa bill for TR parts arrived today.

Payback-Wendy's shopping for a new leather
Eames lounge chair and ottoman.(around $3k also)

So let's hear some tales of woe and paybacks!

Tinster
 
Our's doesn't work quite the same way... I bought my wife a $300 PDA and that opens up about $2000 or so for me - to get a laptop, or a down payment on a car, or parts for the sportscars, or pretty much whatever I want to spend it on.

Did I mention I realllly Love my wife? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
My wife and I must be weird, we each have our own
accounts at different banks, and a house account at
a third bank. The house account is just that, for
paying bills, all of them. Our separate accounts go
to our toys/hobbies/gifts for each other and non
essential stuff...

SteveL
 
My prime directive: "She can never say 'no' to me if I never say 'no' to her."

Jerri was out & about today...when she came home she informed me that she'd just ordered all new leather furniture for our TV room...that opens it up for me to buy a Triumph America or Speedmaster motorcycle....her answer when I told her was, "Well, I'm sure you'll find a good used one at a 'Tony price'."
 
Not sure I have ever or ever had to say no to my wife. Shoot what ever it costs it is cheep.
 
Not a problem here. The wife told me to buy the car (says I needed a hobby other than computers), and so she can't complain when I need to buy things for it. "As long as it makes you happy>" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Allen_M said:
Wow!~ you guys have wives and cars???!!!

LOL /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

My wife is great, she doesn't even question it, when I "need" something. BUT, I'm pretty balanced in my purchases for her and I give her the same little smirk I get when something new comes home...
 
I'm hoping Chuck goes out and buys new furniture for the living room...

I have my eye on a nice GT here...
 
So that's what that's about...

Actually, eight years ago for Christmas my wife bought the new stainless steel wire wheels for the 3. This Christmas was a complete new sae/metric tap and die set.

No competition here only the annual sell that thing and buy something new speech. I then remind her of all the wonderful things I use to do before I had a 3 to occupy my time. That annual selling of the 3 discussion ends rather quickly.
 
My wife encouraged me to find and buy my B. She said I needed something to keep me busy sfter I retired. How can you say no to someone like that.
 
My wonderful wife just gave me the go ahead to buy another car. But it was me that balked. I just got off the phone with the guy and told him that I wouldn't be getting it. I had thoughts of turning it into a rally service car. But thoughts of my second kid going to private school in the Fall made me hesitate. Now if a huge freelance contract fell into my lap in the next couple of days... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

BTW we rarely ever say no to each other but we do talk about it.
 
My wife is just as into cars as I am....so any car purchases or car parts(especially when they're for her car) are fine with her. Technically speaking though, if we're gunna even things out I just spent 15k on a bedroom set she wanted.....so that free up cash for ummm an Iroc convertible maybe, or a 73 Trans Am :devil:
 
Being "the wife" I think that my husband did it right by getting me involved. Now its me asking for the parts. I tell him what I need and he finds it. (He just picked me up an original nardi converter for my midget's steering wheel he gave me for christmas) We work on them together in the garage, shop for them together and our "vacations" are always planned around where we are picking up either cars, motors or parts (2005 took us to Virginia, Galveston, Alabama, Denver, and New Orleans (O.K. Hammond)) As the kids got older, we needed new things to occupy our time and our cars have become our new kids. I look forward to finding one of those REAL restoration cars, but I guess we still have to get the Midget out of the garage 1st. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif
 
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My wonderful wife just gave me the go ahead to buy another car. [/QUOTE]

My wife also told me I could buy another car, only two options were attached: Sell the Herald, or sleep in it. Apparently one non-functioning money pit is enough!
 
My wife and I don't do the payback thing - though I do try to balance things by spending money on home improvements and such. She's the one that talked me into buying Chance, I talked her into buying Molly (it's her car after all) and she arrainged for us to buy Sarah after I traded my old pickup in to get her Lacy.

She's always out in the garage helping me when I work on the cars, and her and the kids get me car parts for all the major holidays (This Chistmas I got a style bar for Sarah, last Father's day it was a set of Bullit wheels for Chance)

I consider myself a very lucky guy ...
 
My wife supports my old car hobby, she understands (maybe even better than I do) that I wouldn't be happy without it. When I sold my previous motorcycle in 2005 to fund the car search, she strongly questioned me being without a bike. So she wasn't surprised at all when I called her from the dealership this past June with a "I was just looking, really... can I keep it?" If I ever tried to sell the Tunebug, I'd hear it from her right away. She probably knows me better than I do. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

We run joint finances, but my music income (such as it is) has always been completely separate. That's what funds my car purchases, so it keeps it away from general family needs.
 
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