My Wife Finally Popped The Question

If I had a dollar for everytime I have been accused of spending a $100 on car parts, I have a $100 to buy a car part.

 

Mine never asks. She knows I have binders full of receipts. I've never totaled them up.

I don't ask for funds out of my income (she stays at home with the kids.) I usually get a little play money at birthday and Christmas, other than that it's what I can generate by selling/trading/making or fixing myself. I rarely take on side jobs because that takes away from my family time.

About a year ago we got some unexpected money, and she told me to buy the new transmission i'd been wanting with it. I don't figure I can do better than that.

Devin

 

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Ex wife didn't like me spending money on cars, girl friend has had some really nice cars, so doesn't mind. But, after the divorce money is an issue

 

I would have said not enuff it's still in the garage.

 

Well put Kids need to earn No they don't need to work full time or even outside of the home But they do need to earn what they get or it is all taken for granted. One of the many things wrong in the world today

 

i was thinking this reading through this thread when suddenly your post came up.
hehe, i also think kids should be made to buy their own cars as they dont normally respect what they didnt earn. i see it everyday.

 

Totally not true. My lady and all the gals I know love my cars and want rides left and right even thought they aren't finished. lol

 

recently did work for a guy who has spent 100k on a mk1 escort circuit/targa car.when asked how much he'd spent he said enough that if my wife found out i'd be in for a divorce!
me i have a bad habit of swapping work for parts,don't know if that's a good way to do it or not!

 

I dont tell Mrs Fingers what I spend, but I also don't lie if she asks.
I offer to sell parts/cars if things get tight and we needs some cash, but she nevers suggests that I do.
Another thing that helps ( for me), If I have a good win on some parts or car deal, and make a bit extra, why not take the family out for a meal or a movie etc.

BTW, I was late for my first date with Mrs Fingers because my brother and I went interstate to pick up a project, and were late getting home. She then let us store it at her place......
She knew right from the start what she was getting into.

 

my soon to me wife has it as bad as me! she has 5 toys! 3, 67 GTO, 73 454 Vette, 72 Nova SS, abd a 57 Chev Sports Sedan and a 59 Apache Short Step side!

I also tell her what all my stuff is worth, so when the time comes....well she makes out good....and I am only 46 but you never know!

I have 9 toy car and 3 daily drivers...

I did a thread like this a while ago!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=233346

 

The nice thing about the 5th amendment is:
1. Stays away from self incrimination.
2. Outlaws double jeopardy.

I wish it also had a section where she can't ask a 3rd time either...

 

When I had my Panhead, one afternoon my wife came out to the garage (where of course I was working on it, AGAIN!), with a handful of reciepts. (I just threw reciepts for whatever I'd bought for it in a cigar box on my dresser)

"Do you have any idea how much you've spent on that in the past year?", she asked.

"No", I said, "...but I'm guessing you do!"

Last week, she suggested we get a new engine/trans combo for the Diamond T project, rather than rebuild the tired old 350, so she's on board. I guess it helps getting published.

In her defense, re; the Pan, it was a staggering amount of money to have been spend on something with just two wheels...

 

usually it's my mom who is asking how much I have into a car and then bitches when she hears the price but once I sell the car and make a big profit she shuts up

girlfriends on the other hand have complained once in awhile but for the most part nothing bad

 

Don't know if anyone else has said this yet but what she's really asking is "how much more time are you going to spend with that 'other' woman!"

 

I think that's what it is. She's thinking that she wants some things done to the house. It's too cold out to get into some of that kind of work yet. It's just her cabin fever.
Oh yea - "us" working on the house means she dissapears once I start working. I hung sheets of drywall on the ceiling by myself last night. Wonder why my neck hurts?

 

It's a Cat and Mouse game at my house! That's all I'm going to say about it! (LOL)

 

+1!!

 

Speaking of responsibility, you have a kid, it is your responsibility to raise him and provide for him. Show the kid what being responsible is all about. THAT is the way you teach him to be responsible. That's what I did. Guess what? It worked!!

College is not necessary to to be successful. But why encourage a kid to limit his lifetime potential by tempting him with a car??

Bill

 

Good I guess we agree no car,cell phones,i pod, video games = No distractions

 

I can honestly say my wife has never given me any grief over money I spent on any of my cars. It's usually the opposite, where I am hesitant to buy something and she convinces me to go ahead and buy it. When I was going to look at my current car I took some down payment cash with me and told my wife that I would let her know if I was going to buy the car so she could take the money out of the credit union where she works. Usually takes a day or two to get the money out. Went to look at the car and decided it was a good deal so I called her on the cell phone to let her know to take the money out. She said "I already have the check in my hand".

 

Good answer!

 

Last car I bought, I was having 2nd thoughts about getting it. It was a 67 Belvedere convertible that needs a lot of work. Well, she said she thought I should get it and if I decided it was more work than I was willing to do, then we could sell it for a profit. Well, that was two years ago and I decided not to mess with it and have been trying to sell it for over a year now. Finally found a buyer and I'm selling it for what I paid for it after doing a lot of clean up on it.....and I'm glad to have found this buyer!

 

she was just testing the waters on what she could find that would match that amount that you should spend on her ie. Jewelry ext.ext
some think that if you put a certain amount of money on your stuff and less on her or her stuff you dont love her as much.
but so far im lucky that my wife lets me spend what i want on my toys because i let her spend what she wants on her stuff.

 

she dont ask and i dont tell, so far so good , 17 years. haha

 

It has been several years since I last sold a vehicle at the wifes insistance. Damn I wish I still had that nice little $2,500 52 F-100..... my 71 Stingray, my 70 Camaro.......

Live and learn, never again.

Funny how these cheap cars were too expensive to keep, but new cars were ok even though they cost 10 times as much....

 

Dont tell her about the prices.

Simple and clean.

Besides, YOU need a car. fuck the kids, its about YOU for once, they want a car, they gotta pay for it.

And that friends IS coming from a 14 year old boy, (Namely me).

 

Amen brother. Well said.

 

i have never managed to shock my wife on what i spend on cars and parts
but one car i hid from her she wanted to drive it, then she claimed it..
i work full time on my cars so working on them is not a problem..
told her the cost of my body materials today, could not shock her either so said it will look good when its done, It better or i have wasted a lot of $$$