Do you lie to your other half about the price when you buy stuff?

merlin said:
If there was no point - then no one would lie. There is a point & that's why people lie. If your other half is a whinger - it's best to lie in the interests of harmony.

So the remap on my car cost £60 + VAT. In fact it was £760 + VAT, but you pronounce the £760 with a silent "7".
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You misunderstood me .. I can understand why some people need to do it and can sympathise when someone doesn't understand WHY things are so expensive to therefore it's easier to tell a little white lie ( as long as one person isn't affecting the joint financial situation ) I do this with PC stuff with my parents

However myself and Desmo have similar interests and I understand how electrical items can cost a big chunk of money :) .. Also because neither of us are the type to either whinge at eachother or be silly with money we never have the need to fib
 
Never had ot lie ot my girlfriend about something I've bought myself, as it's my money and she appreciates that :p

I lie to her though about things I buy her as I don't want her to feel like she needs to spend money on me :o
 
Go for the double fib as I do.

"You've bought another gadget?!?"
"Ah yeah but it's a bargain and I worked out that if I buy this now, I can actually sell my old one on egay for a couple of quid more thereby being in profit!"
"Are you sure?"
"Course I am, not got money to burn you know!"

Get's me a new phone every year but in that case it's generally true.
 
vonhelmet said:
Alternatively, you could spend your money wisely and then you wouldn't need to argue about these things.
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I do spend my money wisely.

The problem is that our salaries differ so much. I pay twice as much tax per year as her entire gross salary in her full time job.

She thinks that my money is hers and her money is hers too.
 
Rilot said:
She thinks that my money is hers and her money is hers too.
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If your married then I'd say things should be shared, but then I am a fairly staunch Christian traditionalist on these matters! If not, then I guess all bets are off.
 
I have no partner so no problems here but i have to grass my mate up.
He was the dude that introduced me to OcUk so it's all his fault. :)
He don't post just lurks but i cannot resist.
Fortunetly his missus doesn't read the boards so we can laugh at him with no adverse effects.
Anyway he just built an Uber system and i mean UBER.
His missus goes whats going on here then. Seeing his new tower.

Oh i decided to by a new case love and have a swap around. :p


Just a case. :p
 
vonhelmet said:
All our money is pooled and our finances are all rigorously calculated and budgeted for. Neither of us have credit cards or anything. We are each allotted a monthly amount of spending money with which we can do whatever we like. This is both a constraint and a freedom - on the one hand I only get £50 a month spending money (thank goodness for ebay) but on the other hand everything is accounted for, so no bill ever comes as a surprise, and I can do nigh on anything I like with that £50 and the wife can't complain when I get a whole load of second hand computer parts and games off ebay each month!
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^ That arrangement is the work of the devil.

You must break free my brother. :p
 
Rilot said:
I do spend my money wisely.

The problem is that our salaries differ so much. I pay twice as much tax per year as her entire gross salary in her full time job.

She thinks that my money is hers and her money is hers too.
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mmmm that sound's horibly familiar

if I rememebr correctly the phrase Fee uses is 'what's your's is mine and what's mine is mine' oh well :D

HT
 
happytechie said:
mmmm that sound's horibly familiar

if I rememebr correctly the phrase Fee uses is 'what's your's is mine and what's mine is mine' oh well :D

HT
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Is your girl called Fiona? Mine is and we call her Fee.
 
My Marshall Mode Four amp and Jackson Randy Rhoads guitar cost around £900.. oh no, that's right - really it cost >£1700 :p

Mind you, I'd just splashed out on two leather sofas and some new solid pine living room furniture so I didn't feel too guilty at buying something for myself.. especially as it was from my £4k annual bonus!
 
I don't see the point in lying. Unless your wife\GF is an idiot she'll notice how much has disappeared from the account, and if she has the sense to check google you're boned anyway.
 
Murf said:
I don't see the point in lying. Unless your wife\GF is an idiot she'll notice how much has disappeared from the account, and if she has the sense to check google you're boned anyway.
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.. if you have a joint account, something which the g/f and I don't and we've lived together for seven years..
 
merlin said:
^ That arrangement is the work of the devil.

You must break free my brother. :p
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Free from what? I'm already free of debt and financial discomfort, student loan excepted. Not sure what else I'm supposed to be breaking free from... ;)

I guess some of you must just like arguing. Weirdos!
 
riddlermarc said:
.. if you have a joint account, something which the g/f and I don't and we've lived together for seven years..
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If I'd lied to ^^ Kell_ee001 ^^ about the cost of things she'd have called me on it in one of two ways.

1 - Instantly, could tell by my reaction

2 - The second she found a PC and searched for said 'cheap' item.

If your GF can't tell your lying after 7 years then I'm stunned. They always know when you lie. It's easier to be a man and say it cost double what it did, to prove your hard of course.
 
I tend to gloss over the *amount* of stuff I buy, some of it gets stuffed into cupboards for later use etc and I dont always mention things that are due to arrive.
No joint accounts here either and we've been together quite a few years. She's the same with me, we manage our own finances independently, but we're both open about it.

I'm the other way with the parents. If they're after getting some new kit I'll up the spec and half the cost for them normally.
 
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