What guitar or piece of gear are you hiding from your wife/girlfriend?

[lock-ny]

Yeah my gfiend soon to be wife hates it, but last week an oranage 1x12 mysteriously showed up and I just told her It had always been there...lol, I guess if we had more money at our disposal she wouldn't mind as much

 

[MusicMan_Luke]

My first EBMM, my amazing Luke II. I bought it on the bay and told to my wife (girlfriend at this time) long time after. But, every next guitars were buying with her understanding (after a long period, 7 years between the Luke and the JP7)

 

[KevinUK]

Hi Guys, this all sounds SOOOoooo familiar. I haven't driven the length of UK to collect, but did take Eurostar to Paris when I bought my Gibson ES 345 BB King 80th birthday and did the trip in a day, it was then filtered in to my collection a few months later with " Oh you know I have had this for ages darling" My wife is not stupid but only see's black cases in my guitar store not what is in them. The trouble In have is if I use an undeclared guitar at a gig she attends, my fellow band members do nothing to help me either often wandering over to ask if she likes the guitar !!!!

And if she reads this, Love you loads "J"

 

[Santuzzo]

I'm not hiding any guitar or other gear from my girlfriend, fortunately I don't have to, since I pay for all my guitars and gear only with the money I make

 

[mtrejo]

I'm not hiding any guitar or other gear from my girlfriend, fortunately I don't have to, since I pay for all my guitars and gear only with the money I make

Lol, as soon as you get married though, the "money YOU make" becomes "one or all parts of the marital financial contribution" therein lies the biggest issue for married people.

I used to do a lot of side work which was all extra money, and thus how I funded my purchases. It never affected my mortgage or bills we have. Now that side job has become my full time job so I need to make sure I maintain that "extra" money level if I want to make purchases.

 

[Barry1977]

Aye diddly I,the single life for me.

 

[Santuzzo]

Lol, as soon as you get married though, the "money YOU make" becomes "one or all parts of the marital financial contribution" therein lies the biggest issue for married people.

Nope, it won't in my case, trust me.

Which might be the reason I'm still not married at almost 40 ... LOL
I could not live in a situation where I would have to justify buying what I want to buy from the money that I am making as long as all the necessary bills are being paid.
So, in short, if I do get married, my future wife will have to understand this, and I will also never give her a hard time about all the shoes, clothes, purses, jackets, etc. she is buying from the money she is making.
Separate bank accounts and one shared account for the shared costs. It's that simple.

 

[DrKev]

Our Paris apartment is so small there is nowhere to hide anything bigger than a cookie. Besides, my gear is infrastructure, not hobby and I have a very clear distinction between "need" and "want". Never a problem.

Peter's wife's "WE DON'T SELL GEAR" wins.

 

[kbaim]

Our Paris apartment is so small there is nowhere to hide anything bigger than a cookie.

Not even gonna ask where.

Hey does anyone here hide it from the wife but tell the girlfriend?

 

[Dr. Rock]

Yikes! My lovely wife is quite sympathetic of my "need" to buy/try/acquire/trade/sell gear. All our accounts are fully shared and we maintain a perfectly balanced line-item family budget, which includes a cash envelope system for most non-bill categories. E.g., I recently bought an EHX Soul Food pedal just to check it out, and didn't ask her or tell her, but it came out of my personal envelope, so she didn't care. But on the stuff too expensive for that, she's usually willing to work with me on a funding strategy that we're both happy with (and vice versa for her stuff). She's pretty awesome!

 

[threeminutesboy]

Not even gonna ask where.

Hey does anyone here hide it from the wife but tell the girlfriend?

That being said I never hide anything, that's,in my opinion a bit immature attitude.

 

[BrickGlass]

My wife knows about all my purchases, outside of super minimal things like strings or picks. I will always talk with her before any purchase of significance.

 

[peterd79]

Peter's wife's "WE DON'T SELL GEAR" wins.

wished i knew that rule before the taylor was sold... now trying to find the funds to pick up a nice acoustic... my wife has a carvin that is incredible but not my favorite body style

 

[GuitarHack]

Wife knows...I work very hard, travel all the time, she says I've earned it. Great wife, I married up

 

[themass]

...sigh... jealous of most of the folks here. My wife is totally against my gear purchase and my involvement in music in general. So I hide just about everything. I think she's on to my usual excuse of "oh no I've had that one for years."

 

[Stratty316]

I tell my wife then she forgets. I made a deal that I would sell some stuff and it wouldn't cost us any money out of pocket... She agreed. When the Silo Spec showed up she says "where did that come from" and "why didn't you tell me". So it doesn't matter what I do as it's buy once, justify twice around here.

 

[mtrejo]

So it doesn't matter what I do as it's buy once, justify twice around here.

Funniest quote ever!