Bummer! I'm in the naughty corner.

[Eric_Methven]

You know how adept you get at explaining the aquisition of new kit.? The excuses for why you REALLY, REALLY need it just rolls off your tongue after a while.

Well, I've bought a few nice things lately - and they all arrived at the same time. Today the postie delivered: A nice shiney axe from Cegga. A Swandri Mosgiel coat. An over the head olive green windproof parka. A millbank bag and a large dutch oven.

No excuses worked, so now I'm in the naughty corner. It doesn't help matters that I keep playing with the axe and keep trying the gear on despite the stoney silence and dagger like looks.

Eric

 

[sxmolloy]

I know the feeling well. Maybe a big bunch of flowers or a box of chocs may help you out there

Good luck and ATB....Stu

 

[Marts]

Bad Eric. Go stand in the corner and contemplate your wicked ways

 

[Eric_Methven]

I know the feeling well. Maybe a big bunch of flowers or a box of chocs may help you out there

Good luck and ATB....Stu

Hmmm... thought about that, but she'd be utterly convinced I had a bit on the side if I start buying her flowers and chocs.

Eric

 

[weekend_warrior]

Hmmm... thought about that, but she'd be utterly convinced I had a bit on the side if I start buying her flowers and chocs.

Eric

Yeah, but at least this way she knows you can't afford to be having a bit on the side!

 

[chas brookes]

Hi Eric
unfortunately I am occupying the opposite corner as the postman turned up with my Cegga axe while I was at work, along with a K&M matchcase from the states.
Oh well I could always ask her if she really needs all those shoes, on second thoughts I am not that brave!
Chas

 

[twisted firestarter]

well thank your lucky stars it wasn't the naughty step

 

[EdS]

take yourself off to the shed.

 

[Celt_Ginger]

Have you tried "I won it in a competition" or my current favourite of "I swapped it (for whatever) and it didn't cost me a penny" The only problem was that after my latest swap with Jedadiah, she didn't know I had the stuff that I used for the swap. :sulkoff:

 

[Matt Weir]

LOL, I know exactly what you all mean. I got a phone call today at work, "the postman's just been with another parcel! I thought you said that's it...."

 

[Jared]

Time to get a PO Box?

 

[John Fenna]

Now I know what attracts me to the idea of buiding a roundhouse.........I tend to live in the naughty corner..... my latest "crime" is swapping some of my 'for sale' leather pouches (which could have brought in some cash) for knives and knife making bits&pieces...... and to be going (alone - on business) to the USA next week......and asking SWMBO to use her coffee break to go order me some dollars (to save me a 16 mile round trip to town)...... and having to go for walks in the woods (testing gear for my magazine columns of course) while she watches the sunshine from her office window..... and being ten years younger than her.... and breathing I guess!

I will probably soon be in a position to prove or disprove that bit about not surviving after "3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3weeks without food, 3 months without a bit of 'nudge nudge'".........only so much you can do stood in the naughty corner.....!



Love her realy.......!
John

 

[dommyracer]

Eric, if you'd like I can 'look after' some of your new kit until the heat dies down......

 

[addyb]

I'm not married nor do I have any children (that I know of) so when I want to buy new kit, I just go ahead and buy it. No-one can tell me to stop and no-one can put me in the naughty corner!

Adam

 

[rich59]

Not being a kit person, but a thinking person, it is the time and energy I put into bushy stuff that gets me into trouble.

And I have a philosophical problem with buying commercial flowers (that I am allergic to) when there are some beautiful wild flowers in that unweeded garden!

Mind you, all that money I don't spend on kit and flowers does allow the trip to Venice next month that went down very well nicely with my partner. So I got something right.

 

[Silverback]

I have just read several of the posts here out loud to my wife and it has actually helped me out a lot as she now knows a) there are fellow suffering bushwives and b) I am not unique in my endless quest to fill every available space in our already miniscule house with new kit .

I have a perfect solution for some of the more pricey items - I have them sent to my Mum and Dads and sneak them into the kit stash over time exclaiming "Oh I've had that for ages" when asked at a later date (so not strictly speaking a lie)

Greatest achievement to date a nice new Leupold scope for my .17HMR which also required strategic interception of the credit card bill

Pathetic arent we

 

[JohnC]

I'm afraid I have work as my delivery address The plan was I could hide any 01 steel/horn blanks/string/axe/foolish purchase and move them into the house in dribs and drabs.
Regrettably my wife works in the same hospital and a collegue informed on me.

Luckily she has an ebay shoe addiction, which I am very understanding about

 

[Graham_S]

I use the "it's a passaround" excuse.
it seems to work.

 

[Moff8]

I got around the credit card statement by using EGG who are all online - no paper trail to catch me out.

 

[fredcraft]

I have a perfect solution for some of the more pricey items - I have them sent to my Mum and Dads and sneak them into the kit stash over time exclaiming "Oh I've had that for ages" when asked at a later date (so not strictly speaking a lie)

Verry cunning