Would you hide a loan from your wife to buy a gun?

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Im thinking of it. In the army we can get a bank loan to come right off our pay check and it would only be like $80 every 2 weeks. I can afford the gun cash no prob but my old lady has huge issues with me dropping $1500 on a gun. ( Remington 700 MLR .338lm ) I have one $1500 gun all ready. 5R milspec in .308. Thinking of hiding a loan to buy it so she does not know I bought the gun.

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Everyone pretty much agreed on 3 things.

#1 - Bad idea to hide something like that from ur wife.

#2 - Were men. Tell her ur getting it and buy it. might be a fight but keep ur dignity.

#3 - If she breaks up with u it was not ment to be.


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Bad business screwing with the wife's money. And face it, it's her money...

I find that if i just say "hey, look at this gun! I think i should buy it!" it works out. She's never said that i shouldn't, there were never any surprise bills, and all is calm on the home front. She does the same thing with major purchases, clears them through me first. Kinda the way to do it. Once you're married, you're legally/financially one entity :)
 
I have bought several rifles, a drum set, a skidoo, without the wife knowing. (at least up front). Never once did she see the humor in my sly dealings. Several times it nearly ended badly. I suggest you look around the house/garage, and find the things you no longer need (I.E. camping equipment, an old shotgun in the back of thelocker, old tires, etc) and start selling everything you can. Hit ebay, craigslist, etc, liquidate all the stuff you have that you don't need anymore, even old hunting clothes, camo, jackets, etc, and you could easily find 1000 or more no problem. (even old cd's)
 
oh boys, dont get me wrong. I can afford it. She just really hates the idea of me spending $1500 on a gun.

I dont need a loan to buy it. just a way so she dont notice.
 
Taking a bank loan and hiding it from your wife is a crappy thing to do. Tell her what you're doing, see what she says. But first a little reconnoitering on your part - if she's working she's probably already spending money on clothes and shoes and jewellry from her own pay, and if she's like every other woman i know she's not telling you about most of it. Gather intel - do an inventory on her closet - how many pairs of shoes and how much new clothes has she bought in the last year? Use your interpersonal skills to remind her you don't tend to spend much $$ on yourself. Take it from there.
 
tell her your buying the gun with YOUR money, if all the bills are paid and food is on the table and kids (if you have them) have every thing they need then go for it, your earned the money do with it what you want
 
dale9805 said:
you should consider letting you're wife handling the money and you getting a "spending money" allowence!
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2 late. she laid that trap a year ago and i fell in.


I feel like a bad guy on here now for just thinking the idea ! What happend to being Men ????

ah well. it is a bad idea.
 
Never a good idea to hide anything from your wife. you do this and then they wonder what else you might be hiding. If you don't have trust in your relationship with her then you don't have a relationship. These days divorces are expensive...is it worth going down that route?
 
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