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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirk (KC) Constable
    You guys kill me. It doesn't work for everyboidy, but it works for us...her money, my money, and our money. I don't ask, and she doesn't care. And I keep my mouth shut when she buys the expensive makeup and pays Weight Watchers $12 a week to tell her the same things they've been telling her on and off for 10 years.
    LOL! We use the same system. I never say a word when she goes to the beauty salon every 4 weeks and drops $130 - she always looks pretty much the same to me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Christian Aufreiter
    How lucky that I'm still single.

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    Bruce, my mom always makes a point of telling my dad when she leaves to go to the beauty parlor. That way he knows to say her hair looks nice when she comes home. She got tired of coming home and him not noticing she had her hair fixed and he got tired of being trouble every two weeks.
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    There is another saying around our household that my wife uses quite freqently. What is yours is mine, what is our's is mine and what is mine is mine. Generally followed by "and don't forget it!!" I guess that is why it has been 38 yrs. She says I follow the rules well.
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    I just made sure my wife got her gardening catalog from lee valley and she never bugs me about mine, hehe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Ayars
    Bruce, my mom always makes a point of telling my dad when she leaves to go to the beauty parlor. That way he knows to say her hair looks nice when she comes home. She got tired of coming home and him not noticing she had her hair fixed and he got tired of being trouble every two weeks.
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    James, I always tell her how nice she looks - papa didn't raise no fool!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Page
    LOL! We use the same system. I never say a word when she goes to the beauty salon every 4 weeks and drops $130 - she always looks pretty much the same to me!
    Don't tell her she looks the same or you will be sleepping in the shop!!



    There is another saying around our household that my wife uses quite freqently. What is yours is mine, what is our's is mine and what is mine is mine. Generally followed by "and don't forget it!!" I guess that is why it has been 38 yrs. She says I follow the rules well.


    Bernie has the same deal in his house that is this house, (NOT MY house), her house.

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    There Is The Right Way!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kirk (KC) Constable
    You guys kill me. It doesn't work for everyboidy, but it works for us...her money, my money, and our money. I don't ask, and she doesn't care. And I keep my mouth shut when she buys the expensive makeup and pays Weight Watchers $12 a week to tell her the same things they've been telling her on and off for 10 years.
    Ditto for me. She doesn't complain or question why I need this or that. Plus as long as I make things she wants, that's cool. But the big plus is I don't question her about her weekly nail appointments, hair coloring, etc or buying useless things for the house -- at least I think, but don't say aloud, they are useles. After all she could say the same about my purchase.
    Kirk, your the man!!!!

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    The LOML doesn't even notice the catalogs & magazines set by my chair & on my night stand & I pick up & thumb through them so often that its just part of the day. She would probably notice if I didn't look at them or something on the internet & then she would want to take my temperature to see if I was sick or something.
    I usually find it much easier to be wrong once in while than to try to be perfect.

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    actualy LOML looks at my tools porn with me. She wants me to tell her which one I like the best and then she will usual give it to me....

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    SWMBO is just fine with tool porn. She even looks at some of it with me - mostly articles on finishing. She's even ok with purchases less than $100. She didn't even blink when I mentioned the kbody sale at LV - she knows about the clamp thing. I need to place that order...

    Orders much over $100 she needs to "discuss" Unless its for a piece of furniture she wants, then I've gotten away with a bit more quite easily. She knows a cabinet saw is out there somewhere and isn't happy about it.

    Jewelry porn. Now that scares the heck out of me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Coffelt
    I just received my new Lie Nielsen 2005/2006 catalog and FWW magazine. I was like going uuu and aaahhh. She told me if I didn't put it away she would. What to do?
    Ditto for me... As far what to do, well, pre-gloat alert !!! I just placed an order for an item on page 177
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Tinley
    I am in the same situation as KC, she has her money, I have mine and then there is the household money. (must be a TEXAS thing )
    Must be, 'cause that's the way it is in our household too! Saves a ton of time on "confrontations"
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    There are two primary tests a first date must pass. ONE). She must like dogs and in particular, my slobbering spoiled labrador. No dog likie likie, no second date. TWO). She must have and interest in at least minimal woodworking. Its hard to live with someone who does not like woodworking because we all spend so much time and effort on it. Right now, my wallace jointer restoration project has been sitting on the kitchen table for about 4 months now. Have not had a chance to move it and work on it seriously. Most wives would have blown a gasket over this one. I guess that is why I am blisfully single.

    You can tell I am single. Last night, I was shooting mice in the baseboard radiators with my Dad's old welby pellet pistol while watching TV.

    But who could forget the home depot add. Guys buys new tools. Neighbor comes over and checks them out. He says, but I thought you could only get those if you bought the wife a new dining room set. The other guys says, your standing on it. Pan down. Pile of rough, cut hardwood lumber.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary Herrmann
    SWMBO is just fine with tool porn. She even looks at some of it with me - mostly articles on finishing. She's even ok with purchases less than $100. She didn't even blink when I mentioned the kbody sale at LV - she knows about the clamp thing. I need to place that order...

    Orders much over $100 she needs to "discuss" Unless its for a piece of furniture she wants, then I've gotten away with a bit more quite easily. She knows a cabinet saw is out there somewhere and isn't happy about it.

    Jewelry porn. Now that scares the heck out of me.
    Gary if that is you in the picture you don't look quite tall enough to reach the top of a cabinet-saw. Come on you can't had behind a young picture for ever.
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