I thought selling some of my models on e-bay gave me the "right" to buy something new - Lord was I wrong!

My wife saw the e-mail confirm from e-bay on my newest aquisition an M88A1 I want to convert into an A2 OIF.

So although I made over a hundred on the sale and spent $25 on the new kit - I am in the dog house BIG TIME....

So I turn to you my modeling comrades and ASK?

What the heck do I do now to get back in her good graces???

Any help will be appreciated.

Ummmmm Flowers...... Candy........ Shoes?????
Dinner and a night out?????

Flowers...works well. Dinner, also smoothes things nicely. One thing I have learned is that women love presents. Especially surprises.

Combination of Flowers and Dinner might also get u a "get outta jail free card" for the next time :-) :-) :-)

Good luck

My last trip to the dog house cost me a pair of diamond earrings for SWMBO. Now as long as she doesn't see the shipping confirmations for my latest purchases

Gotta go with Dave - Diamonds ALWAYS work

If all else fails, remind her that the $25- wasn't spent on wild women, drugs or booze!
C.

Flowers,dinner out for her favorite dish.Massage.
Tell her you were going to paint her name on the A2 Gift certificate to nails and pedicure shop (this works)
Note: diamond earrings Dang Dave,what felony did you perpatrate? Can't be kits 'cause now you're driving up "the penalty fee",which will not endear you to your fellow hobbiests.
cheers for a good tale now.......

well be a man,and hold up the marriage papers and point out the part ;for better and worse,and say this time it is worse and next time it will be better :-) :-) :-) with diamonds,flowers and candy your just buying her offf.whats that got to do with love??
you buy her something at any given moment because you think about her or whatever and not when you have too.honesty and respect go alot further

aaaaargh ,that da#%@ dr Phil of yours has got a hold of me

but it is not me in the doghouse #:-)

greetings jeroen,.

I'll second on the shoes. Works every time with my wife. But then she will buy them any time she wants anyway. I always know that I can get away with buying a 30 dollar kit when she has just spent 80 bucks on shoes :-) :-) :-)

Frank, do you have kids?
If so, do what I always do........blame it on them. :-)
Later, after the wife has settled down a bit slip the son/daughter a $10.00 bill and everything is fine.

Say to the wife; "I don't know what's gotten into that boy.....he used to be sucha a good kid....well.....I should probably take the model and put it up somewhere around my workbench so he can't get his hands on it."

Trust me, kids are used to getting yelled at so if they're gonna make a few dollars out of it they wont mind, plus you get to keep the model.

If you don't have kids to blame stuff on, another good idea is to have a friend or relative to order kits and have them delivered to their houses. When the kit arrives you just go pick it up, slip it into your stash and keep your mouth shut.

Never, ever, under any circumstances buy your wife gifts to get out of the dog house. This is why there is a "dog house" to begin with. When the wife figures out that all she has to do is get upset in order to get free gifts she'll start looking for reasons to put you in the DH. Heck, I knew a guy once that had it so bad he had to buy his wife candy everytime he got crumbs on the floor or left the toilet seat up. After ten years of marriage his wife weighed 400lbs. and the husband was put on anti-depressants.

Hermon

Got caught with about 6 Dragon 3-in-1 251 kits, 3 Verlinden buildings and a new airbrush. Only got her a bit of scrapbooking stuff. (note to self: avoid HL sales and have packages sent to work)

and for all you married guys out there:

http://www.toilette-humor.com/the-man-song.html

If the problem has to do with not a lot of money in the budget and she is mad that you spent money best used elsewhere, then buying her something else will only aggrevate the problem. Explain to her that you feel your models are personal and should remain so because she does not support your hobby. If you bought a model with money that you got from selling another model, she should be happy you are financing your hobby without cutting into the home finances. Ask her how you should feel every time you see her buy a new pair of shoes, even if it is with her personal money. Should you get upset and start a fight or should you respect her desire to have the nice things she wants. Everyone must have their rewards in life or life is not worth living. Tell her you will gladly give up modelling if she will give up buying new clothes, shoes, purses, jewelry etc. If she agrees then you might consider a divorce cause thats one wacked out chickaroo.

Ken,
LOL....thanks for the laugh. I would go for indoor carpeting as well.

Cheers,
Jim

Let me get this right...

You sold off a bunch of your stuff and came out $75 ahead. Then she snooped on your email. Now YOU are in the doghouse?? Plus it may cost you more than the $75 profit to get out of the doghouse?

That's just so not right.

WOW! Kinda negated the HL sales savings,huh? :-)

I agree! No class.
Tell her that nagging you ISN"T a hobby and even if it is cheaper than what you do for a hobby.

I believe you've married a tightwad.

I'm really NEVER in the doghouse, and I spend her money all the time. But, I trade off in other ways....



...other ways


(shiver)



:-)


Cuhail

To one and all Thanks a million for the advise - most appreciated.

I'd tell her to bite it and stand up for youself.
Then I'd wash her car, do the laundry, cook a few meals, get her bath ready, and beg her to forgive you.

EASYOFF:

ROFLMAO

:-)

No kidding. I never understood why guys nowadays are so afraid of their wives.

Unless you were saving for a new kidney for her or her mother, are in danger of getting evicted, or are starving to death, I'd say you selling your kits lets you spend your money however you want.

So, inquiring minds want to know. ..

What did you decide to do?
Did it work?

Would you do it the same way again?


Me, I get my stuff shipped to me at work and have a christmas club "slush fund" that I pay for kits out of.
My wife is still trying to change me (I'm a bit of a slob), but is having no success. Here my slob tendencies work to my advantage, I add a new kit to a pile and she's none the wiser..

My US$0.02
Mike
Mike