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Location: Denver, PA USA | Hi All,
As you know I bought a 5778-4ES last week and got it. Also my wife has been away to New Orleans with our church to work down there. I figured I would tell her about buying this over the phone so when she yells it will be over the phone and maybe by the time she comes home she will cool down. So I told her last night and she didn't seem to care. Go figure that one. She just said OK. I almost fell out of my computer chair from shock. Maybe I need to send her away more often. Then again maybe she was just tired and it didn't set in. And I will get it when she sees it when she gets home. Who knows with women? |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Then again, maybe being in New Orleans she saw there were more important things in life than buying a guitar. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | After being married to the same woman for 29 years and raising 2 daughters, you'd think I would have some understanding of them, but sorry. The only thing I've learned is the one absolute rule--THE GUY ALWAYS LOSES. Maybe one other helpful hint is that they haven't figured us out either, but they don't care! So why worry about what she thinks? |
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Location: Chicago | Maybe she thinks the "Elite" is a new car for her!
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Location: Minnesota | Don't be fooled! It's when you tell her that you need something small and relatively inexpensive (like new strings or another strap) for your new purchase. Then she'll pounce :eek:
Actually, I must admit my wife has been very agreeable about my guitar aquisitions :cool:
It's tools that I've had to back off a bit on. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Exactly, while she was on the phone she calculated "her" price for the guitar. Your best bet is not to play it for a month (in her presence) and then the price should go down. Take it from first hand experience. Let that sleeping dog lie for awhile when she comes back. Take care of your wife when she comes back, take her out to dinner, do the dishes so she can rest, do things that will help her forget what you did and keep that guitar on the down-low.
I hope it works out. |
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Location: Texas | "The only thing I've learned is the one absolute rule--THE GUY ALWAYS LOSES"
I prefer to think of it as finishing second. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by BigRed1951:
I prefer to think of it as finishing second. I can't believe that straight line has lasted 15 minutes with no response! :eek: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Woman work in strange and mysterious ways, their wonders to perform.
Some wouldn't waste energy yelling over the phone when it's more efficent to wait for a 'hands on' opportunity....and to sound calm in the meantime so you're not hiding when she gets back. (That's not what my wife would do, she likes tools!)
All she has to know is that men are just like linoleum. If you lay it right the first time, you can walk all over it forever. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by BigRed1951:
I prefer to think of it as finishing second. Which, come to think of it, is how you keep the wife and the competition happy! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Can I hear an Amen? |
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Location: Minnesota | Happy Wife = Happy Life :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | A friend says, "When Momma's happy, everyone's happy." He's a glass half full kind of guy. |
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Location: Midland, MI | My wife just realized today that I was serious when I asked her if she could display proof that I agreed to sell the last two G&Ls I bought (I did not agree to anything...in writing). Rule #9: Never ask your wife a question you don't already know the answer to.
I thought she was going to crawl through the phone, rip my head off and...uh, well, you can figure the rest. To my surprise, she didn't.
I'm sleeping with the lights on and a .25 under the pillow, though. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Cruster, this is how it works. If you don't disagree loudly, preferably in writing, that is the same as agreeing. That's why women have perfected the art of nagging. They wear you down. You can disagree 99 times, but when you finally decide that it's useless to say anything and just ignore her, that last time overrules the other 99.
Corollary #57 of the universal truth "The Guy Always Loses" |
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Location: North Carolina | Always buy guitars of the same color. Unless you're wife is a player, she probably won't be able to tell one from the other and you can sneak a new one in easily. |
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Location: Denver, PA USA | Originally posted by First Alternate:
Always buy guitars of the same color. Unless you're wife is a player, she probably won't be able to tell one from the other and you can sneak a new one in easily. I guess that is where I went wrong. None of mine look alike.
Martin D-18V - natural
Ovation Legend 1777LX - transparent burgandy
Ovation Elite 5778-4ES - natural
SX Les Paul - natural
SX Tele - 3 tone sunburst
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by an4340:
Exactly, while she was on the phone she calculated "her" price for the guitar. Your best bet is not to play it for a month (in her presence) and then the price should go down. Take it from first hand experience. Let that sleeping dog lie for awhile when she comes back. Take care of your wife when she comes back, take her out to dinner, do the dishes so she can rest, do things that will help her forget what you did and keep that guitar on the down-low.
I hope it works out.  ...Yes she has. This is good advice men.
I have no doubt that the figure she has added up, is much greater than the one you told her. She has already marked up the confession price 25% to account for the actual bucks you paid. That way, when the argument gets to-"You never listen, I did tell you it was that much" she can just move on to the real meat of the deal.
Once we have added the mark-up. There is no way out. We like it when you guys keep things on the "down-low" It just means more small purchases for us that you won't dispute and more time until we go in for the real kill. :)
Oh, and we ALWAYS notice something new. We happen to know all the different shades that "natural" comes in. It's all factored in the payback.
Save yourself lots of trouble, guys. Just pay the piper. Expect that everytime you get a "good deal" that she also just got something on her wish list. ;)
When I see Sears dropping off that new riding lawnmower, I'll be e-mailing Al as fast as I can type, for that purdy purple-flame guitar. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | We men ain't all that bright...but you'll never convince us of it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Pokey, I had hoped for more help from you, having the somewhat unique insights of a woman with GAS. "Pay the piper" was a real letdown. How can you live with yourself? (Very well I suspect with that new CL.)
I like First Alternate's color idea. My wife thinks all of my natural Ovations are the same. She said the Folklore looked just like the Matrix. I rattled off, wider neck, slothead, ebony fretboard, five-piece neck, solid spruce, pre-amp and she had already tuned out. I should have just told her it was the Matrix and then hid it in its case in the storeroom. |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Pokey, I had hoped for more help from you, having the somewhat unique insights of a woman with GAS. "Pay the piper" was a real letdown. How can you live with yourself? (Very well I suspect with that new CL.)...
I'm sorry. We are just evil that way. ;) I should have been more gentle.
The switcheroo thing, just does not work. We pretend not to notice. Really. And if we happen to NOT notice until later, boy oh boy, you will be sorry.
I am paying dearly for the CL...lol Yes I am.
It's a good kinda pain. I SO like looking at cylinder heads and table saws. I've done a lot of cooking this week and the garage is really clean.
You guys do really well at the buddy system here. Planning is everything. Big Clue #1: check the calender before you buy! Pms is danger. "That's gonna leave a mark" will be your next new guitar lick.
You know those $20's that you guys always stash away? We never remember you have them unless there is an emergency. Start really hiding them in a fund.
No matter how unreasonable we are, those flowers and cute stuffed animals that happen WITHOUT GAS intentions, really do matter. Grab some kleenex and watch a Chick-flick.
I hope you guys are all having a great saturday. I am going, chainsaw shopping later. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have never stashed money away for a fund. I may be a rare bird, but I expect there are lots of us guys who agree with Dave Berry: "My money and her money don't become Our money when you get married. It all becomes her money."
I had a friend who kept all his business expense reimbursements as his fund and his wife could never figure out why they couldn't pay off their credit cards. They're now divorced.
Had another friend who kept the books and always had an extra $1000 in the checking that his wife didn't know about. He's now dead. I think I'll just keep doing it my way and stay alive and married. |
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Location: Spokane, WA | Roses are cheap in comparison with divorce attorneys. I keep my local florist on retainer. It's kept from sleeping in the back yard with the dogs on many occasions. Here are two more universal truths: Men ain't bright, and women are attracted to shiny objects. ;) |
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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Davek1076:
Roses are cheap in comparison with divorce attorneys. I keep my local florist on retainer. It's kept from sleeping in the back yard with the dogs on many occasions. Here are two more universal truths: Men ain't bright, and women are attracted to shiny objects. ;) :) You sound very shiny and bright to me. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Don't go for it, Dave! It's the proverbial carrot if I ever see'd one! You know us guys all have our minutes in the sun but, for some reason, we just don't belong there. Sort visits? Sure, but don't pack a bag... |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Man!!!
I must be the luckiest guy on the planet!
When I first met my Wife-To-Be, I was collecting guitars, all things band AND campaigning a bracket one drag car AND building a custom van.
She has never questioned anything I was looking to purchase (unless she thought it wasn't a good deal.. Thanks Honey!) I once mentioned to her that I had seen this weird Ovation solid body bass at my favorite pawn shop. The next time I went in, it was gone. Bummer.. Well at least till my birthday rolled around.. And guess what? There was that same gray Magnum sitting on the kitchen table.
I guess she'd get pissed if I was out buying guitars (or speed parts or tools or what ever,) if we couldn't make our house payment or something. As long as our obligations have been met, her paycheck is hers to spend and mine is mine. I have been a working musician since I was 16 and my playing money normally ends up being my "playing money". Besides she really likes shoes... Who am I to judge.
We just celebrated our 25th anniversary and I'm a happy guy!
If you check out my photo gallery, you can see just a small portion of the stuff I have acquired over the years with my wife's help and approval.
Besides guitars are an investment with a better return than most savings accounts.
For those of you that have a problem getting the "wifely approval", maybe your approach just needs work.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There is no real solution...... and this looks like as good a place to share this as any.
"Since the onset of the menopause was confusing my husband, he got me a mood ring to wear so he could easily tell what mood I was in.
He found out that when I am happy, the ring was green. When I am unhappy, the ring leaves a big fucking red mark on his forehead.
Maybe next time the bastard will buy me flowers."
( After 28 years of successfull marriage I do consider myself very fortunate that my wife and I still love and respect each other as much as we do. I am particularly glad she is such a lousy shot....but that was a long time ago and time heals all wounds.... ;) ) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As for me, I'm just kidding as well. I wouldn't trade my better half for anything and she's been allowing me my, um, idiocyncracies (that sounds polite, right?) for coming up on 24 years. I don't have a whole lot full of guitars but I've never needed much to keep me happy. I'll get what I want in time and, if I don't, well it's probably just as well. What I have sounds just fine on the deck by the pool. Like I say, I'm not heading out on tour anytime soon...(but I do come home every night). ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Somehow I got one that doesn't really care for flowers or shoes. Years ago she decided she doesn't even need a new dress for annual special occasions. She does like a new car every few years, although she prefers reliability over pizzazz and her desire for a new house every decade has been the biggest thorn in our marriage. If she had more faults, I'd probably have more guitars. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Wow, interesting thread. I feel very lucky. about 3 years ago my wife decided pulling all my guitars out of the closet and getting me back into playing (after about a 12 year break) would be a good stress reliever for me. My job is intense and deadline driven, so playing would make me healthier! Her idea, honest! Then she decided guitars were beautiful and she wanted to decorate different areas by putting guitars on the wall. I have bought 5 guitars since then, with her encouragement. She is constantly telling me I need to buy some more guitars and which walls she wants to put them on!
Last December I bought her new furniture, put in the home theater we both have been wanting and we are finishing up a balcony that has been under construction for 10 months. So I also have lots of guitar "points" built up. What really sucks is after buying all that stuff for her and bills from my FKing heart attack, It's gonna be a while before any new guitars find there way into my house.
But I really love the guitars I have and even better I have a great wife I love even more than the guitars! Oh, and I survived the heart attack! So, Life is great! :D |
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Women! Who can figure them?