Buy it in cash! Quick and easy, and you can always loose the receipt!!!! LOL
Since I own over 400 locos, and God know how many passenger cars sets, let alone freight cars, my hobbies has evolved in to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, I think! LOL
I work partime at the hobbyshop I get my trains from. Eventhough I mainly take take care of the slotcar tracks, but I still rather come home and play with my trains with my daughter. So I don't take money out of our bank account. And she also helps me with scenery. It's a good arrangement.
Ralph
highrailjon That's a GREAT wife!!! ;b
underworld
fifedog wrote: 88 - I've got my 7 foot tall inflatable RAVENS lineman ready to go in the front yard! Bring on Peyton-----yummmmm,yummmm...
88 - I've got my 7 foot tall inflatable RAVENS lineman ready to go in the front yard! Bring on Peyton-----yummmmm,yummmm...
fifedog: GO RAVENS!!! Almost everone is on the San Diego bandwagon. Well, I'm a Balmer boy through and through and I think the Ravens' D is gonna stomp everyone. It will be a bit of poetic justice for the Ravens to beat Indy in Balmer. - Ok back to trains
spankybird wrote: Every train engine cost me two dolls. As of now, she is up 3 engines.
Every train engine cost me two dolls. As of now, she is up 3 engines.
I feel SOOOOO sorry for you, buddy. Those porcelin dolls with the moving eyes creep me out.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
My spending on trains is quite limited.
But to answer your question, I have solved that problem so far by not having a wife.
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
fifedog wrote: 88 - when you get it just drop me a line.Maybe I'll head up to Thurmont again when we can sign it in person. Cool beans?
88 - when you get it just drop me a line.Maybe I'll head up to Thurmont again when we can sign it in person. Cool beans?
Sure, no problem!It may be a couple weeks... I'm heading to Pittsburgh this weekend... and the next two are ? because of the NFL Playoffs - wife has Ravens Season Tickets... and I am trying to rerent my house in Pittsburgh and may have to make a quick 1 day run... I'll keep you posted!Brent
fifedog wrote: 88 - you get an application, and I'll vouch that you don't come from the wrong side of the tracks for you.Besides, living that close to York is tantamount to walking by the barbershop and never getting a haircut. You may even come across those B&O/C&O F units you've been coveting.
88 - you get an application, and I'll vouch that you don't come from the wrong side of the tracks for you.
Besides, living that close to York is tantamount to walking by the barbershop and never getting a haircut. You may even come across those B&O/C&O F units you've been coveting.
fifedog wrote:laz57 - ok, ok, April, I'll supply the handtruck, YOU shuttle Mrs. fifedog around, I'll buy the beer. Deal?
You got a deal FIFEDOG, APRIL? We'll be there.
laz57
highrailjon wrote: My wife told me if I buy one more train, I'm in for a whippin'. See ya fella's, I'm off to the train store.
My wife told me if I buy one more train, I'm in for a whippin'. See ya fella's, I'm off to the train store.
Please email my wife JON?
One more good trick...find a local or reasonably close train dealer and make arrangements to have him give you "dummy" receipts for your train purchases. That is, say a boxcar costs $40. You pay the $40 but get a fake receipt showing a $20 purchase to show your wife.
Now, this only works if the big problem isn't just bring home trains but rather how many $$ you spend on them. By using this method, you can effectively "double" your purchases. Unless she is really up on train pricing, she'll never know the difference. Also, I've found that dealers will offer this, er, "service" to good customers if asked. After all, they want you to keep buying from them! Be careful about charge purchases, though, if your wife may see the statements. Best to buy with cash only!
tbwilson4 That's a pretty good trick!!!
Quite easy.....I'm not married! My girlfriend knows that complaining won't get her anywhere!!!
Warburton- You are right. I don't think my wife actually hates trains or the hobby. She hates em cause I like em! She also is to be on meds but won't take them. She is an emotional roller coaster. I think (hope) it will all work out someday. I guess only the guys that love trains and also love a woman that loves to hate trains to hurt the guy that loves trains can only relate to this voodoo. If you ever hear news of a man that had to have a full scale Hudson surgically removed- that man will probably be me. It really has nothing to do with money management or being afraid of a woman. It has everything to do with loving both, and not wanting to hurt or do without either. A typical bad situation.
Stay positive!
Smoke Stack -- I am with you! My wife hates trains and makes no bones about it. She used tell people "trains ruined my life." She was also in severe depression unbeknownst to us for a number of years. She was a miserable "rhymes with witch" on a number of other levels, too, believe me. Now that she take her meds, she is much, much better. Depression runs in her family; her mother was a terrible case. My wife still doesn't like trains by any means, but we decide on a budget for me each year to spend on them and as long as I stay reasonably close to it, she will now tolerate my hobby. I think that "trains" are sometimes just a visible totem for other, deeper problems. I have always been easy about her purchases of whatever.
As for the original question (hiding them from the wife), try having them delivered by UPS to where you work (no UPS truck in front of your house). Then, hide them under junk in your car trunk, smuggle them into a dark corner of the garage under some old boxes, etc., when she's not looking, and into the house when she goes out. ONLY IF you can't just be honest about it!! If I had it to do over again, I'd do what I do now and have a lot less unpleasantness.
And, yes, I love my wife of 35 years very much anyway. Had to -- I stuck it out with her thru some nasty times!
P.S. It was kinda funny...back in the 90s, she used to go to trains shows with me to help sell trains (I'd have a table or two), and she'd tell folks, "I HATE TRAINS! Please help me get rid of them here!" It sometimes worked, and always set guys heads to scratching as they walked by.
FIFEDOG,
Works up an appetite, steak and beer.
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