Den 18. sep. 2006 kl. 22.27 skrev Cotty: > 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 ;-)
Hmmmm, I´ve solved the problem in another way, but it needs time. Many years ago I was planning to skip Pentax, so I had a bank account related to some insurance and I put a small amount extra into that account. I still do, and while my wife knows about it she keeps forgetting because the monthly amount is to small to be noticed. So, I can buy some stuff every years and just say "oh, you know, I had some money on that old account".... DagT -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
