Deals with the significant other....

[Mister Tawny]

My GF is amazingly understanding. She tolerated my collecting stereo gear, cars and other big things. But she put a up a caveat. My collection has to pay for itself. So whenever I buy something over a certain amount, I have to put it up for sale for a given amount of time (depends on the amount of the piece). I agreed a while back to this. Now I am wishing I hadn't. She usually doesn't look up what I sell or what it goes for as long as I "try". My usual strategy is to price something into the stratosphere and hope that no one is dumb enough to pay it. But now with LED watches there doesn't seem to be a ceiling for a lot of people. I am running out of ploys to keep the pieces I want.

Anyway I was writing this to see if anyone else has a similar predicament. It was easy with stereo gear. But with watches it's not so simple. As of next week my Majestyk II will be "mine" to keep. But then I have more to go. Damn it's frustrating.

[dutchsiberia]

My girlfriend is just happy I don't collect valve radio's and large portable radio's anymore As long as most of the stuff I get stays in my room it's allright. The buying should not interfere with my ability to pay the mortgage etc.

[Kasper]

just start telling here about her shoe collection and suddenly everything is ok

[Ade51]

If all else fails hide them and/or lie .....

[retroleds]

If all else fails hide them and/or lie .....

HELL YEAH!

[jagmad]

When mine starts bleeting how much I spend I just ask her
"When you gonna sell your cigarette butts?"
(I gave up smoking cigars about 6 years ago) Nothing wrong with a little
moral high ground.