Honesty Pays

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Cypress Sun]

Always tell them the truth. 

 

That gun has been in my truck for so long, I forgot how much I paid for it.

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

That's just cold.

[Pat Riot]

I have always been honest with my wife on gun prices. Mostly because for years money wasn’t tight but we didn’t have a lot of expendable cash so we had to watch our finances. 
 

Also, I knew guys that hid things from their wives and lied about costs. I had one buddy that apparently stored guns for all his friends, including me. I found this out one day when I went to his house and was showing him how to set up and zero a balance beam scale. He was getting into reloading. His wife, who I had only met a couple of times at that point, popped into the garage and while we were standing there she says “Tom, are going yo take your guns home with you?”

Baffled I said “Guns? What guns?”

The looks Mike was giving me as he stood behind his wife told me something was amiss.

Mike says “You know, your two shotguns and the 1911 pistol.”

His wife then said “Yeah, we’re going yo Florida for two weeks to see our parents. I wouldn’t want something to happen to your guns while we’re away.”

She went back into the house and Mike told me he had been telling her he was holding guns for people to cover for all the guns he was buying. 
What a knucklehead. 
That partly explains why they separated a few months later and eventually got divorced. Mike had a tendency to stretch the truth a bit. 
I took his guns to my house until they returned from vacation, but I told him not to get me stuck in the middle of that BS again. 
 

Like my Nanny told me when I was a kid “Honesty is the best policy”.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Every day a gun case goes out and a gun case comes in.  Sometimes it is empty, sometimes it is not.

[Pat Riot]

3 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Every day a gun case goes out and a gun case comes in.  Sometimes it is empty, sometimes it is not.

Reminds me of a joke about wheelbarrows. 

[Matthew Duncan]

My wife is afraid of firearms, doesn’t want to know anything about my firearms and doesn’t want to see them around the house.  OK I can work with that.

 

Over the years I’ve used overtime money or accumulative Birthday money to purchase firearms.  No purchases were ever made with household budgeted money.  I’m the one that paid the house mortgage, car payments and all other household expenses. 

 

A few years back the wife asked how many firearms did I own?  What she really wanted to know was how much she could have gotten from me to spend on her hobbies.  I reminded her that she “didn’t want to know anything about my firearms” which ended the conversation.

 

We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this year.  

[Irish Pat]

Cindy was looking in the gun safe the other day and asked me if I I had bought any new guns.  I told her “No” then she said “well I believe they must be having babies “

[Matthew Duncan]

1 minute ago, Irish-Pat said:

Cindy was looking in the gun safe the other day and asked me if I I had bought any new guns.  I told her “No” then she said “well I believe they must be having babies “

No “new” guns so you buy them “used”!  

[Pat Riot]

My wife went to help her sister with something one morning. I decided this was the perfect time to clear the safe and move it. I needed to turn it to make room in my gun room for my ammo cabinet and some shelves. I took all the long guns and stood them on the couch. 
 

She got home before I finished. This is what she saw.

 

She says “Wow! You have a lot of guns!”

I said “Not really. Not compared to lots of guys I know.”

”Why did you buy the Ruger AR thingie when you already had so many others?”

”Well, let me tell you. Guns are like…”

”Yeah, I know. Guns are like tools. You can spare me the lecture. How long are they going to be there?”

”I am moving them now.”

I didn’t tell her there were 3 more shotguns in the closet. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

I have a friend that I hid a couple guns for until he could get them in his house when his wife wasn’t home! Well she has since passed and never knew the extent of his collection. It’s not huge but bigger than she probably thought it was.

[Smuteye John SASS#24774]

1 hour ago, Irish-Pat said:

Cindy was looking in the gun safe the other day and asked me if I I had bought any new guns.  I told her “No” then she said “well I believe they must be having babies “

Gotta be careful with that unintended cross breeding.

 

The results ain't pretty sometimes.  Look at what happens when a H&R Topper, a Sten and an AR are left unsupervised for too long.

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

I’ve always told Schoolmarm what I paid for my/our guns, (yes she has a few guns that are strictly hers) because if something were to happen to me, she should have some idea of what they are worth!

 

 I also tell her of those guns and related items that I have obtained for bargain prices, (I’m a gun vulture, I perch above the terrain, waiting to catch the bargains as they fall) and tell her what their actual values are. Add to that, she knows many of the people that know me and have knowledge of the values of these things.

 

I don’t endanger the budget and I don’t hide my purchases. It doesn’t make sense!

 

 

[Texas Maverick]

6 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I’ve always told Schoolmarm what I paid for my/our guns, (yes she has a few guns that are strictly hers) because if something were to happen to me, she should have some idea of what they are worth!

 

 I also tell her of those guns and related items that I have obtained for bargain prices, (I’m a gun vulture, I perch above the terrain, waiting to catch the bargains as they fall) and tell her what their actual values are. Add to that, she knows many of the people that know me and have knowledge of the values of these things.

 

I don’t endanger the budget and I don’t hide my purchases. It doesn’t make sense!

 

 

Yeah, my wife isn't interested in my guns at all. I have gotten to where I created a spreadsheet with all my guns, their serial numbers and what I paid for them. I have since added a column of what their current value is so she has some idea of what to do if I do kick the bucket. It is also good for insurance purposes if necessary. Like when I drop them over the side of the boat accidently. 

 

TM

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

10 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Reminds me of a joke about wheelbarrows. 

 

        ................ me too 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I don’t endanger the budget and I don’t hide my purchases. It doesn’t make sense!

My wife and I are the same way. As long as the bills are paid, I can do what I want with any money I might have, as can she. On my end this includes guns and Jeep parts mostly. 

She buys gnomes, plants, and feeds the birds.

[Pat Riot]

I will never forget the day I bought a gun that I wanted that was on sale. My wife got a little upset and I said “Well, I saved 200 bucks on this one.”

She said “Yeah, but you still spent $450 on it.”

My brainiac retort was “You just bought a bunch of Halloween decorations because they were on sale!”

”I spent twenty bucks, not 400.”

I started laughing and said “Well, you have your hobbies and I have mine.”

She threw a stuffed jack-o-lantern at me. She was laughing as she threw it and said “Your an ornery little sh**!”

 

I won’t be using that justification method again. 
 

I also got a kick out of the fact that she said 400 not 450. 
 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

17 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

I will never forget the day I bought a gun that I wanted that was on sale. My wife got a little upset and I said “Well, I saved 200 bucks on this one.”

It's none of my business, and I'm not just directing this at you, Pat, but I've never understood why anybody's spouse, wife or husband, care what the other does with their money as long as it's not straining the budget and the bills are paid? 

I've often read threads about hiding spending from a wife, and I just don't get it.

[Rip Snorter]

I think most of it is joking in the light of "Take my Wife, please".

[Springfield Slim SASS #24733]

My wife knows how many guns we have as she helps me with the spreadsheet keeping track of them. She was complaining once about how many I had, but to the wrong people, a bunch of older gun collectors. They knew she shot, so asked her how many she had, and she said maybe 5. After some serious questioning it turned out that 13 of them were for her use only, and she was very surprised. After that she didn't complain about it anymore.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

26 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

I think most of it is joking in the light of "Take my Wife, please".

I don't think so. Look at Pat's response about his friend telling his wife that some of his guns were Pat's. I've read similar threads on my Jeep groups about how to hide new parts from the wife.

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

if ya do it properly 

the pile is big enough , a few more don't show much 

 

  CB 

[Rip Snorter]

You either have a good marriage or not.  Each and both together can pursue interests as long as the bills are paid and there is a good lifestyle.  

[Eyesa Horg]

I've bought a couple without runnin it by Ellie. Some she bought for me for Xmas,birthday etc. after I mentioned wanting one. Since a long discussion to get the first one, dozens have been lost in canoeing mishaps. We've never done his/her monies per se. 

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

Money is not the issue with my wife. Quantity is!