Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase

This is very simple and has taken me 30 years to figure out:

1. Haul the boxes in when she's asleep
2. Have an entire floor that is so untidy/revolting/messy (she regards a speaker more than 3 nm from the wall as messy, wire on the floor as untidy and a sound level of greater than 60 db as revolting)- I now have such a floor - the basement - she won't set foot in it under any circumstances
3. Most important - desensitize her from asking the price - she was so appalled at the cost of one of my components that she never ever asked again. It's called shock therapy - and it works.

Chadnliz, if my wife snookers me on issues as essentially harmless as my buying omigawd-priced gear, I'll squeeze an eye shut (hard to translate that expression - it connotes deliberately selective awareness) and let her have her fun her way. Two basic rules though for either of us:
Don't invade retirement/vacation money.
Don't use audiomania as a decoy for infidelity. Marital, not sonic....
cheers apo

Just installed some Valkyrja behind the speakers yesterday. Hard not to notice. "Do I want to know what those cost?" "Not really, dear. But I got them at [small]% of list. Think of the money I saved you!!" Wow. It almost worked, too.

Chadnliz, women have their games too, for sure. My wife played the 'if it's expensive, hide it for several months, then wear it' game. When I'd say, hey, new dress/shoes/jewelry, she says 'no, I've had this for a long time'. She also played the 'this was a great sale, $200 marked down to $15' game, then show me a $15 tag that may or may not belong to that item.

We stopped playing those games years ago. We never discuss $$$ at all anymore. She might say, hey, new amplifiers huh? I might say, hey you got a new necklace huh? The other one says yes, new amp/necklace, whatever, and that's the end of it. I keep a seperate bank account and credit cards, so does she. So we really don't know, and we're fine with that.

Cheers,
John

is non-disclosure considered deception??? If I am 100% guilty. Typically, my wife and I don't talk about our purchases unless it impacts the family in some way. We really do not care how much the other spends as long as we can pay our bills and continue to save at the rate we agreed upon. It helps that we both have our "fun" accounts separate from the family account. What we do with this money is no one's business. I have found this to be a great arrangement.

I believe in the Bill Clinton rule: I don't ask about shoes, she don't ask about stereos... we have a very happy marriage....