How would you break it to your wife?

[waggy]

Originally posted by: bigshooter81
My wife and I just had a baby a few months ago and we have been trying to stick to a budget. Last week I had to get after her for spending too much, but the next day I gave into the wootoff and bought a 30 gb zune. So here is my question, how would you go about telling me wife about the zune? Just bust it out and play with it or should I come clean and tell her I blew the budget?

oh its easy. return it and be a man.

you have kids. Its not about you and what toys you get. if you are on a budget you do not get to go buy toys. the kid and the bills come first.

its to bad you had a child. you are not mature enough to handle it yet.

best thing you can do is try to return it or FS/FT and try to get enough to cover the budget.

 

[JackBurton]

Tell her you made a mistake....and should of gotten an iPod.

 

[MrPickins]

Start off with:

"Well, I'm a hypocrite and an asshole...."

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: bctbct

Originally posted by: DarkThinker

Originally posted by: bctbct
During oral

I mean, how can someone be mad at you when you are south of their border? It just doesn't happen, go for it! :

I meant he should man up and tell her when she was going down :laugh:

*chomp*

 

[her209]

Tell her you bought it for her for Christmas.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
load it with classical music.
strap to baby
its edumacatin the babys brain!

:thumbsup: Although I would put other types of music in there as well.

 

[Pliablemoose]

That's some pretty tight budgeting you've got going there...

 

[seemingly random]

There's much more involved here than just blowing the budget.

 

[murban135]

Tell her you bought it for your girlfriend.

 

[Kadarin]

She's going to laugh at you for having bought that thing instead of an ipod...

 

[Darwin333]

Ahh, you follow my philosophy.

It is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's some pretty tight budgeting you've got going there...

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's some pretty tight budgeting you've got going there...

Do you have kids?

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's some pretty tight budgeting you've got going there...

Do you have kids?

I'm a single custodial parent that gets child support maybe 30% of the time...

 

[ultimatebob]

That Zune from the WootOff cost what.... $100?

If you can't afford a one time purchase like that without catching hell, you must have far more serious money problems than ATOT can help you with!

I'll second the vote for eBay, since you would probably be able to get your money back.

 

[Tiamat]

Since she will do this later anyways, just pull the "but dear this is for both of us and the baby"...

 

[RESmonkey]

Sell the Zune on craigslist for more than what you bought it for.

 

[theeedude]

Hide it until Christmas, then give it to her as a gift, then borrow it from her.

 

[LtPage1]

You're an idiot.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Say you found it on the ground. Get some dirt and blades of grass to be more realistic.

 

[Fritzo]

Fill it with baby pictures and sappy mommy/baby music (I suggest Anne Murray), then say you made this for her and the baby.

She'll love you to death and you get to keep a Zune

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
That Zune from the WootOff cost what.... $100?

If you can't afford a one time purchase like that without catching hell, you must have far more serious money problems than ATOT can help you with!

I'll second the vote for eBay, since you would probably be able to get your money back.

He probably *can* afford it, but if you constantly buy things that you "can" afford, eventually you can't any longer.

Especially if he was getting on his wife's case about it.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
You're an idiot.

 

[Alistar7]

Nice post count O/P, saving it all for THIS?

How would you break it to your wife?

I get the impression you would prefer to keep the zune, but not have it be a problem in your relationship. Give her the same you spent on the zune, maybe a tad more, and let her go shopping for herself.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's some pretty tight budgeting you've got going there...

Do you have kids?

I'm a single custodial parent that gets child support maybe 30% of the time...

Then unless you're independently wealthy, you'll realize that $100 isn't chump change. (that was the woot deal, right?)