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Purchase Related Inquisitive Wife Syndrome.

Does anyone else ‘suffer’ like me, from the ‘trouble and strife…’ when playing with a new purchase?!

You know the routine...
Postman delivers large, expensive looking package. You play it down. Desperate to sneak off and open it. Disapproving eyes follow.


So, a few lines I suggest to prevent such difficult interrogatory situations arising.

“I bought it on eBay, it was really cheap.”
Translates to : I bought it on eBay, it was rare, and therefore really expensive.

“It’s not even a new book “
Translates to: It was a really expensive collectors book.

“Look how small it is, of course it didn’t cost much “
Translates to : Look at the detail and workmanship. It cost a fortune !

“It costs me more to fill a tank with petrol, than buying this…. “
Translates to : A ‘Chieftain’ Tank that is !

“ I can use it to perform. It will pay for itself in days !”
Translates to: This cost an arm and a leg! I hope it pays off before the Visa bill arrives.

“I’ll just stick something on your Credit Card dear. Should be able to pay you back by the end of the month…”
Translates to: Just praying now that ‘Lucky Clover’ in the 2:30 at Newbury makes it home.

And…

“But all my friends have one”
Translates to: But all my friends have one.

Hey - are we married to the same woman??????

I'm still single.... *thrusts fist in the air* YEEEEAAAAAAH!

I'm so lonley ...

Tried and tested suggestions:

a) Have everything delivered to your works address if possible on the basis that there's always someone there who can sign for deliveries no matter what time of day, or by which carrier, the parcels arrive.

b) For those who don't smoke or drink, make great play of the fact that magic costs far less then those other vices and is very much healthier.

c) On the basis of honesty being the best policy, get down on your knees and grovel like the clappers - Wives are born mentalists and they KNOW everything anyway. At least mine does.

...sound advice.

I grovel apologetically, listen in a knowing fashion.
And promise never to do it again.

Then head off happily, Switch card in hand, toward the latest new temptation !

Piers.

Tell her you have a new part time job, testing out new magic releases for an internet shop, and as pay you get to keep them

Mandrake,

A. I always use this

B. I smoke AND drink, so no chance there

C. What's honesty ??

mines more like a Purchase Related Inquisitive mother Syndrome

thank god for Usps. (they place the package IN the mailbox instead to the door). then when i come home from school, just pick up the mail and pop the package in my backpack or sneak it inside and run upstairs. thank you paypal

Tenko wrote:C. What's honesty ??

It's what I have to resort to when every other crafty excuse fails !