On 18/9/06, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >Cotty's on the right track, but we need to expand a bit on his logic. >Buy stuff you'll never use. Heck, even buy stuff you don't want. >Hold on to it for a while and then sell it. Let's say you buy an MX >with a wonky meter for $50. As far as your wife is concerned, you >only paid $30. Keep it for a month or two and then offer it to >eekbay. If you can sell it for $50, you've just turned a $20 profit! >Even if you can only get $30 for it you broke even. ;) And if your >wife ever complains about too many perfectly good cameras, you can >always say "But honey, I sold that MX a while back...."
Excellent. Actually I think mine just became too bored to ask anymore. I have a male friend who married an accountant. She's tighter than a gnat's chuff with money, but he's mesmerised by eBay. Accordingly, he uses my Paypal account as a slush fund. He receives cold cash for various things (doesn't go past his wife's impressive nose) and I top up his Paypal account accordingly so he can buy things from eBay sellers, and gives me a small bung for the pleasure. It's just the opposite with me. Mine counts every penny but I have cleverly steered her attention away from juggling credit card bills. It's all a question of timing ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
