how many flowers do i need to come home with this?

[Phirebug]

http://www.springfield-armory.com/armory.php?version=27
The intent here is to acquire afore-referenced shiny pistol and at the SAME TIME maintain harmony with wife.

The pistol is $1500, but is very shiny.
The wife is very beautiful, and likes flowers.

Please advise.

[M1 Tanker]

James, as a married man of 15 years I went and referenced my "Flower Chart". At the $1000 mark, it says see "jewelry chart" :)

Flowers and candy are dandy....but diamonds will get you laid.

[okie shooter]

Vegitables man, you need vegatables, carats, lots of them, as I was thinking its carat weight there, I would agree anything over a thousand is jewlery.

[LorDiego]

http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/

Go ahead and buy yourself that gun Mister!

[weasel_master]

Lucky for me I'm not married yet. Get to buy some toys but then I put some money away towards a ring. I justify my spending by saying, "If I'm going to lose my freedom by buying a ring, I need to justify my manhood with another gun."

[Enigma Nostra]

lol,I like that WeaselMaster.

-E

[SteelCore]

"James, as a married man of 15 years I went and referenced my "Flower Chart". At the $1000 mark, it says see "jewelry chart"

->Classic! LMAO.

Since I'm dee-vorced, I don't have to pay the tribute...but I do buy a Barbie or My Little Pony fer me 4yr old daughter.

It is amazing how much of yer own money you have to spend once you are divorced...too bad so much of it initially goes to lawyers.:ziped:

1500 fer a pistola is some serious bank. I mean, you can get an M-14 fer that right? or a SIG-550 series? Or a kimber .45? Everyone's got their own tastes, and you're right--it is mighty shiny!

[cimmaronkid]

I'm thinking jewlery here as well. Something rather large and shiney for the opposite sex. As everyone has said, after that $1k figure, the flowers and candy chart end. Good luck and be sure and post pictures, range results, and your new address after buying it and trying to sneak it into the house. At least it is a pistol. You ever tried to look innocent carring in an aluminum gun case with a 26" Remington 40XB varmint rifle?

[okie shooter]

Lucky for me I'm not married yet. Get to buy some toys but then I put some money away towards a ring. I justify my spending by saying, "If I'm going to lose my freedom by buying a ring, I need to justify my manhood with another gun."

I am not married either, but no matter what, if you buy the gun and she ain't happy, your life at home ain't happy either, thus if she lives with you, the rules apply the same as if you were. Thus the M-1A cost me a nice cocktail ring to keep pace for buying it.

[nevada]

Buy the new Taurus .45, $600 retail. Take wife out to fancy dinner and night at a hotel. Buy custom holster, belt, more mags, ammo. Live happy.

[hulygan]

I agree with the jewelery statement. I don't know about you but I don't have room on my propery for the sheer number of rose bushes i would have to plant to get enough flowers for the wife on that one.

[nalioth]

...... just buy one for her, too. Women love matching sets.

[weasel_master]

I am not married either, but no matter what, if you buy the gun and she ain't happy, your life at home ain't happy either, thus if she lives with you, the rules apply the same as if you were. Thus the M-1A cost me a nice cocktail ring to keep pace for buying it.

True words spoken there. I've got a dog coming her way so that should keep me set for a while. She'll melt when the things comes in through the door.

[okie shooter]

True words spoken there. I've got a dog coming her way so that should keep me set for a while. She'll melt when the things comes in through the door.

I was a single bachelor, then my girlfriend moved in with me and one cat, hmmm later at the local Wal-Mart she said she needed a dog, I let her out of the truck to look at them, and I stayed in the truck, she didn’t talk to me for the hour and a half of shopping, and the entire drive home. Thus back to the parking lot at Wal-Mart and one dog later (they offered her two papered labs for 50$ but only the male was left thus 35$). Now with six hundred in fencing alone, plus hundreds of dollars in dog toys, we now have three dogs plus two cats(at least she got the last papered lab for free, but heck the expenses add up quickly).

Heck buy the jewelry, it’s cheaper in the long run far cheaper.

[rustypirate]

As a single man, here is a rule to live your life by.......

When her stuff finds a permanent place in YOUR home, it is time to end it.

but then, I like my privacy, and I will allways keep my own place free and clear of outside influences.

Make no mistake, I have tried the married lifestyle, for 11 years. I have come to the conclusion that I am not willing to make that much compromise in my life again.

[wonderwolf]

Flowers and candy are dandy....but diamonds will get you laid.


:rainbow: Hmmmmmmmmm the benefits of being a geology major are starting to present themselves.

[okie shooter]

At least it is a pistol. You ever tried to look innocent carring in an aluminum gun case with a 26" Remington 40XB varmint rifle?

I have left rifles out in the living room in the corrner where she sometimes sees rifles, she missed the fact I had bought two ak's(not kits but all up rifles) by me not making any comotion about them, and putting them away later in the gun room.

[jlpskydive]

http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/

Go ahead and buy yourself that gun Mister!

I know for a fact that the above site or one like it will get you out of a ton of S&%T. Go get it.

[Jacobite]

I just celebrated 20 years marrage and I would say jewelry. Most I ever spent at one time was $800 on a restock job. I don't think I got the Mrs anything but I was working a bunch of overtime and I give the Mrs free reign of the money. Last year I bought her an Old English Sheepdog and when I mentioned buying a new rifle and getting another one rebarreled she never said a word. I also have got good at not mentioning or making a big deal of the cheaper mil surps I buy.

[weasel_master]

My girlfriend's housemate is graduating this May and I'll be moving in then. It's me moving my stuff gradually into her place. I've got a room to myself that will only be touched by me. I'll test the water and decide on the final commitment then.

Sorry to take the thread in the wrong way. Just ask your lady what she thinks. If she's anything like mine she will tell it how it is.

[turbothis]

ha! when i spend coin i have to build stuff.

cetme=walkin closet out of my garage
saiga12= deck on the back of the house
tile bathroom, entry way
fake wood floors
.................... my collection is out growing my house.

[MID]

Just tell her that you love here so much that in order for you to feel that you are doing all you can to keep her safe, that you needed to buy another gun for her protection...................















And then make sure you have plan "B" in the little velvet covered box in your back pocket.

[DAA1]

Guess I am lucky to have a wife who does not jewlery....
I just buy her whatever she wants... stuff for the yard, etc... but then again I do all the cooking too.....

Just buy her something she likes as a "I love you" or "just because" present, don't tie it in to the gun purchase, make it seem like you are doing because you want to.....

[GearShanty]

Maybe I'm just cheap. But, I try and pull the old "No, that's not new. That's an old gun. It's been in the back of the safe for years. ...no...it looks new because I hardly ever take it out of the safe." Eight years of marriage and my wife still has not seen the inside of the safe.

[Cavalryman]

...... just buy one for her, too. Women love matching sets.

That's the way it works at my house.

[timmyt]

Been married twice, 30 years total. I brought a scope and a pistol home from the gun show Saturday. My wife said..." A pistol for me? Cool." I just realized she has done this before and taken the gun and locked it in HER safe. She never shoots them.

Now...who is crazier? You, for thinking flowers will somehow cover it or me for thinking I finally have a woman figured out??!!???

PS..I really wanted that pistol.