Well, I think in some of our cases, it's not "just a few bucks"...A rough estimate of my now "thinner" collection of surefires is easily over $3,000 retail. At one point, I had over $5,000 worth of Surefires!
I personally consider it utterly insane to spend five thousand bucks in flashlights, but if my SO wanted to do that and had the money to spare, I certainly wouldn't nag her not to.
It's another situation if all your money is in a shared account, but I consider that a horrible idea in and of itself.
Do you think it was a bad decision on my part as soon as we got home this afternoon instead of bonding with her putting up Christmas crap,er Christmas decorations (sorry about that)
What are you apologizing for? Let's burn all the christmas crap
Getting married was probably the first mistake.
I couldn't stand my wife if she agreed with everything I did...I would hate her guts!
You'll notice that I never said I want my significant other to agree with everything I do. A relationship like that would indeed be immensely boring.
Agreeing and accepting are two completely different things.
I don't agree on her addiction to clothes and makeup and whatnot, but I don't go telling her she shouldn't buy them, even if I sometimes think they are too expensive or that she already has more than enough.
I guess you (Fallingwater) would support your wife buying thousands of dollars worth of shoes...just because you buy thousands of dollars worth of flashlights
You're making assumptions without knowing anything about me.
First of all, I
don't buy thousands of dollars of flashlights. I'll never buy a SureFire as long as I live, not because I hate them but because I want a better price-performance ratio (well, I do hate the Titan, but that's a whole other story). The most I've paid for a light is $60 for a Nitecore Defender, which I consider an expensive flashlight (I'd never have bought it at full price). Most of my other flashlights come from DealExtreme. And I haven't spent more than $200 on them all since I got in the whole flashlight thing.
Second of all, I don't economically support her. I have my money, she has hers, and we both spend it the way we like without having to ask for permission. Common expenses are spontaneously shared 50/50.
We do give gifts to each other, of course, and we ask each other for opinions and advice, and I would help her economically if need be just as she would me, but the words "can I buy (insert name of object of desire here)?" have never been pronounced in our relationship and never will be.
Oh, and she's getting a modded Seoul flashlight as a present as soon as the emitter gets here in the mail.
Your relationship sounds boring.
Yours sounds stressful.
well i could tell fallingwater that it has to do with running a balanced lifestyle
A balanced lifestyle is a boring lifestyle. It's the little imbalances that make life fun.
You guys deal with your wives while I still have to deal with my parents, in which the last time I whipped out my Strion (modded to LED) they asked "how many flashlights do you have now?" I answer 4, they proceed to look like I just lied, but really I have only 4 working lights. I know if I get another surefire I will be the one getting a verbal beating
Parents are a different problem altogether, what with not choosing them as you do your SO
I had to lie to my dad when he asked me how much I had spent on my RC helicopter. I told him €80 when the real price was more like €140, and he still got mad. *sigh*
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solutions are
*don't share credit cards or bank acc.
I see no reason to do otherwise.
Compared to some of my other "hobbies" such as shooting, archery, knives, and fly fishing my wife wouldn't even flinch if I told her the cost of some of the flashlights I have recently purchased. So here is what you do......vow to pick up a new hobby and start dropping hints about the next $1000 bow, $600 reel, $1500 custom handgun....etc. 
