Hiding Fabric Purchases
08-04-2011, 06:01 PM
#193
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I've read through all these posts and have lol more than a few times. Oh my, what a hoot.
"I would be SO TEMPTED to say "yep, I'm spending your inheritance and if I time it just right, I'll have less than fifty cents to distribute when I die.""
MsEithne
Love this one. I tell my kids all the time I am spending their inheritance.
"I would be SO TEMPTED to say "yep, I'm spending your inheritance and if I time it just right, I'll have less than fifty cents to distribute when I die.""
MsEithne
Love this one. I tell my kids all the time I am spending their inheritance.
08-04-2011, 06:35 PM
#194
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I don't have to hide fabric......he buys as much as I do! We farm and truck. He loves to go into quilt shops on the road. It's not unusual for him to bring me home a kit of something he would like me to make. Some have been as high as $350.
On his last trip to N. Dakota he came home with two large bundles of top brand fat quarters in two colorways. Sometimes it's a book. Thank goodness he is starting to know what I like. My stash is recession proof. If we had no money to spend, I think I can safely say that I could quilt for at least 3-5 years before running out of fabric and thread. He's a keeper!
On his last trip to N. Dakota he came home with two large bundles of top brand fat quarters in two colorways. Sometimes it's a book. Thank goodness he is starting to know what I like. My stash is recession proof. If we had no money to spend, I think I can safely say that I could quilt for at least 3-5 years before running out of fabric and thread. He's a keeper!
08-04-2011, 06:59 PM
#195
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Here is the You Tube video of this song. It's pretty funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiiO...eature=related
I'm not married now but if I was still married I would have had to hide anything that I bought....after all it was "his money". I was a stay at home mom of 4 kids and didn't have a source of income for my hobbies. Instead, I grocery shopped "very carefully" and was able to save small amounts of money from my grocery allowance (this reminds me of an I Love Lucy episode for some reason...haha) to use for things that I wanted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiiO...eature=related
I'm not married now but if I was still married I would have had to hide anything that I bought....after all it was "his money". I was a stay at home mom of 4 kids and didn't have a source of income for my hobbies. Instead, I grocery shopped "very carefully" and was able to save small amounts of money from my grocery allowance (this reminds me of an I Love Lucy episode for some reason...haha) to use for things that I wanted.
Originally Posted by ranger
100 Ways to Hide Your Stash
He doesn't' have to know everything
A few secrets keep a marriage fresh as spring
I'll have it in, and out of sight in a flash
There are 100 ways to hide your stash.
Fill up the cupboard, hide the evidence
Pile it in the pantry spare no expense
Keep it with the kids' clothes, lay it with the wine
Keep it all together where the sun don't shine!
Put it in a Safeway bag, bring it in with the groceries
Call it "Christmas presents - and don't you peek!"
You're "keeping it for a friend" who's gone to Calgary
She'll be back soon - no there's none for me!
Don't tell him what you owe the store
He might start looking in the dryer or the drawer
It's an affliction breeding secrecy
These quilty pleasures that won't let me be
Pack it in the wardrobe, under the chair
Stack it with the linen, with the silverware
Cram it in the cellar, under the stair
With the winter clothes, with the underwear.
A woman stored hers in the ceiling overhead
For years it stayed there, overtop the bed
Her husband never ever heard a sound
Until the day it brought the ceiling down
He's got golfing and his auto parts
You've got fabric
He's got cigarettes and butter tarts
You've got fabric!
Pad it in a pillow, buy a bass violin
Cram it in a corner, tuck it in a tin
Turn off your freezer, fill up your bin
Unplug the oven, you can fit it all in
Buy a few quarters, while you're at the store
Get a little extra - more more more
Slip it in the mattress, hide it under the floor
No more room in here: buy the house next door!
Author: Cathy Miller
He doesn't' have to know everything
A few secrets keep a marriage fresh as spring
I'll have it in, and out of sight in a flash
There are 100 ways to hide your stash.
Fill up the cupboard, hide the evidence
Pile it in the pantry spare no expense
Keep it with the kids' clothes, lay it with the wine
Keep it all together where the sun don't shine!
Put it in a Safeway bag, bring it in with the groceries
Call it "Christmas presents - and don't you peek!"
You're "keeping it for a friend" who's gone to Calgary
She'll be back soon - no there's none for me!
Don't tell him what you owe the store
He might start looking in the dryer or the drawer
It's an affliction breeding secrecy
These quilty pleasures that won't let me be
Pack it in the wardrobe, under the chair
Stack it with the linen, with the silverware
Cram it in the cellar, under the stair
With the winter clothes, with the underwear.
A woman stored hers in the ceiling overhead
For years it stayed there, overtop the bed
Her husband never ever heard a sound
Until the day it brought the ceiling down
He's got golfing and his auto parts
You've got fabric
He's got cigarettes and butter tarts
You've got fabric!
Pad it in a pillow, buy a bass violin
Cram it in a corner, tuck it in a tin
Turn off your freezer, fill up your bin
Unplug the oven, you can fit it all in
Buy a few quarters, while you're at the store
Get a little extra - more more more
Slip it in the mattress, hide it under the floor
No more room in here: buy the house next door!
Author: Cathy Miller
08-05-2011, 02:51 AM
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DH usually asks me if we're at a LQS together 'is that something you need?' when he sees a ruler or tool. HE's a mechanic, so he can understand specialty tools!
I don't have that big of a stash, but wouldn't feel I have to hide purchases to stay out of trouble.
I don't have that big of a stash, but wouldn't feel I have to hide purchases to stay out of trouble.
08-05-2011, 02:54 AM
#199
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Location: Rochester New York
Posts: 180
I don't take dh to the fabric store. If he goes we spend more. He is a man that says do you like it? Then buy it. So long story short, I try not too.
BUT, (don't ya just hate that?) his eyes roll if I want to go the hardware stores with him. It usually means more work for him.
I love to go up and down isles looking ..getting ideas. IE plastic tubing. Hmmm.... lets get some we can cut it in short pieces both length and width and I can make little slip on clips for keeping bobbins untangled. I read that some place.
Another is that hard cardboard (?) Hmmmm... ahhh I can use that for purse / tote bottoms.. Hey hon? How hard is this to cut? I want to get a piece. LOL but over all he enjoys it. Because I do usually use it.
Dawn NY
BUT, (don't ya just hate that?) his eyes roll if I want to go the hardware stores with him. It usually means more work for him.
I love to go up and down isles looking ..getting ideas. IE plastic tubing. Hmmm.... lets get some we can cut it in short pieces both length and width and I can make little slip on clips for keeping bobbins untangled. I read that some place.
Another is that hard cardboard (?) Hmmmm... ahhh I can use that for purse / tote bottoms.. Hey hon? How hard is this to cut? I want to get a piece. LOL but over all he enjoys it. Because I do usually use it.
Dawn NY
08-05-2011, 04:23 AM
#200
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Originally Posted by LivelyLady
Originally Posted by SuziC
I used to hide my purchases but only due to guilt of spending. I got over that years ago....My DH is a bow hunter and you cannot believe how much "stuff" you just "have to have" when the season comes around. So NO i don't hide my fabric at all. In fact now i show him every new piece and he says "that's great fabic, what are you going to make with that?" We have an understanding about our hobbies LOL it has worked for over 25 yrs!!!!!
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