Money & spouses

Whistle
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  1. Order it over the Internet on your own charge card acct.
  2. Be home to intercept the shipment
  3. Unwrap and put the box in the recycling bin.
  4. Put whistle with other whistles.
  5. Don’t say anything. They don’t know you have a new whistle. This works with Burkes anyway. Might be hard with some pinkwood or something.

Denial ain’t just a river!

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I think so. :smiley:

J.

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I tend to follow this pattern except that I always have everything delivered to work. Then, like Weeks, I employ the code of silence. The whistle collection has grown to a size that it’s hard for anyone besides me to distinguish when a new one enters the fray. :smiling_imp:

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I’ll have to go along with Fool on this one. However I’ve been thinking it would be easier just to get rid of the spouse all together. :laughing:

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My sweetheart plays no instruments, but I think an alto sax would be just the thing for her as she loves good jazz. She says she has too many other irons in the fire-pottery, gardening, charity work, professional career-so maybe she’s right. I just can’t shake the image of her rocking out like Lisa Simpson.
-OTOH, she likes me playing music, and doesn’t object when a new instrument is mentioned, just utters a quiet “Oh boy!” when her practical nature confronts my juvenile wanna-play-accordion-like-Flaco-Jimenez and bagpipes-like-Iain-McInnes fantasies. She’s tolerated other
indulgences without much complaint, so I’m a lucky guy. She could do without the banjo, however. :slight_smile:

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Well, considering that I earn 100% of the family income, and spend about 2% of the family income, I just buy whatever I darn well please as long as I know it’s not going to break the bank

Me too!..except I make 100% and spend about 5% (my 5% may be less than your 2% though…).

-Brett