If that SC is 10K you're going to need the other 15K to keep it going, right?

 

easy solution? Go with the old adage; "better sometimes to ask for forgiveness later"

 

I'd sit her down and patiently explain how happy it would make me, that the only real additional cost would be the insurance, and maintenance. But since I'd have two more instead of just one they would last longer than mormal, and I could own them for a really long time before needing to buy anything else!

Then I'd chain her back to the stove and go buy the friggin things.

 

bribes.

 

Buy HER something...a nice handbag was mentioned and that goes far...like a Coach or something. Nice perfume. I mean, what's that? $400?? In my case, that would go a long, long way.

 

3 years of marriage and I just tried that.

I bought a SLR camera for $1200.

What happen you ask???

First night she cried and cried (real tears) all night. Because she says we shouldn't keep secrets.

Week later I was buying her a new Elliptical trainer for $2800

I WILL EVER TRY THIS AGAIN


I would use a spreadsheet and see if the numbers work. If they don't do what all new business do and make numbers up

 

Get used to it my friend it only gets better..buy them something first so it shows your not being selfish.
What are you guys from MARS???

 

If you are blessed to affored it then buy now discuss later. When I bought my second pcar I told her a friend of mine was having financial trouble and we are in an ok position to help him so I bought the car and told her remember we spoke about helping my friend out? she said yeah and I said well we just did and showed her the keys to the 2nd pcar.lol. She complained for a bit but then got over it when I told her how beautiful she looks in the car .lol

 

Yeah, I think my SO is too smart to fall for the original poster's plan. That's mostly because if one could spend $10k and get anything approaching a reliable 911, I'd have done it ten years earlier.

Also, I chuckle at thought of handing my SO a new purse as they're unloading the second of my new Porsches in the driveway. She'd quickly chuck that purse aside and ask what the hell I was thinking...and she'd be right, unless I'm misreading the original poster and he's actually independently wealthy. Of course, I suspect this thread wouldn't exist were that the case.

<cue posters whining that "$10k will buy a GREAT P-car!">

 

all p-car are 20K
the diff. is accounting method. ie. when and where the $$ been spent

 

Just tell the car you were going to get was actually 40K, so given the limits she imposed (25K) you thought it was better to get 2 cheapies and stay in the good graces, rather than go over and get the wrath.

Besides, she's not going to be fooled by any of this. The trick is, making it easier for her to let it slide. Grease the works and get her something nice when you break the "news"

-td

 

Divorce Lawyer here,big difference between lucky and stupid !

 

Had dinner with the wife and was telling her about the problem PL could have on his hand

I stated the facts as if I were wanting to do a 2 car deal. To see how she would respond

Her response

 

Wanna sleep on the couch? Use the same logic back at her, only make it about shoes.

 

Jewlery, handbags, etc...