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glownyc
路馃憤 hilarious
Watch collecting vs wife/girlfriend
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gophishin
路You could also apply the theory from the bicycle world to watches where: the correct number of bikes/watches one should own is n+1 where n=the current number of bike and/or watches you own. My wife has accepted the n+1 theory but knows I'm pretty responsible.
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pitpro
路or....you could take this approach
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arkstfan
路Half of what she KNOWS about.
My client swings by to pick up a copy of the list, looks it over and says "No deal" (yippee more hours) the contents of the safe deposit box at XYZ Bank he thinks I don't know about isn't on the list. I want an inventory.
OK fair enough. Odd place to have a safety deposit, they have no accounts there that I see and his restaurants don't have accounts there and its out of the way from his house and his restaurants.
Call the opposing attorney and get tough and tell him there is no way I can put that offer to my client in good conscience when he hasn't disclosed the contents of the safety deposit box at XYZ Bank. Attorney tells me BS his guy listed everything and my client is paranoid. I tell him well let's see what the judge thinks about that.
Two hours later my phone rings. Opposing counsel. "What does your client want?"
Call her.
Call the attorney back. She wants the deal he offered plus $350,000 more and the boat.
Ten minutes later we are drafting the orders.
Never found out what was in the box.
BUT THE WIFE KNEW!
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Fritz
路Swedes are, give or take, a very screwed up people....... I feel I can say this because A) I'm Swedish and B) I used to work for IKEA..... need I say more.
The tale at the start of this thread is absolutely accurate, while taking your watches apart to blur the numbers is a bit risky I can see where it would work very well on bicycles and can say from experience that it works very well on motorcycles...13 can be slipped into a small townhouse quite easily I've found, although the sidecar was hard to explain (your preggers honey, we'll need a way to get the little sprog around, don't laugh, it worked)
I would add that occasionally proclaiming one of the offending items as "hers" seem to ease the way for slipping another onto the property once in a while, my wife once "owned" 5 motorcycles....... she actually put serious mileage on one of them too.
The tale at the start of this thread is absolutely accurate, while taking your watches apart to blur the numbers is a bit risky I can see where it would work very well on bicycles and can say from experience that it works very well on motorcycles...13 can be slipped into a small townhouse quite easily I've found, although the sidecar was hard to explain (your preggers honey, we'll need a way to get the little sprog around, don't laugh, it worked)
I would add that occasionally proclaiming one of the offending items as "hers" seem to ease the way for slipping another onto the property once in a while, my wife once "owned" 5 motorcycles....... she actually put serious mileage on one of them too.
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styggpyggeno1
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That is only six watches - a gold one, one on a steel bracelet, one on a green strap, one on a black strap, one on a gray and one striped. Clever but maybe a little too easy. When, like myself, having a lot of different designs it gets more challenging. 馃槈
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styggpyggeno1
路Definitely a bad thing if she leaves you as she'll take half the collection in the divorce.
Not getting in too deep into details but it does not really work that way in Sweden. Not nearly to the extent - like for instance in the US - anyway.
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bazamu
路My wife actually gave me a watch box as a birthday gift when I only had three watches (plus a daily Seiko beater), and my comment to her was "wow, eight slots?! This is going to take a couple years to fill up, don't worry!"
...well, it's two years later and I'm up to 15 now. She says the other day "so much for taking a while to fill up that box...."
...well, it's two years later and I'm up to 15 now. She says the other day "so much for taking a while to fill up that box...."
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trama
路Represented a lady in a divorce and the husbands attorney sent over a list of assets and a proposed settlement. Looking it all over I have no idea how this woman picked me as her attorney, I was new and I was cheap and there very clearly was a lot more money at stake than any ten of my prior divorce cases combined. Also I'm surprised because the opening offer was pretty good, which is bad for me, fewer billable hours.
My client swings by to pick up a copy of the list, looks it over and says "No deal" (yippee more hours) the contents of the safe deposit box at XYZ Bank he thinks I don't know about isn't on the list. I want an inventory.
OK fair enough. Odd place to have a safety deposit, they have no accounts there that I see and his restaurants don't have accounts there and its out of the way from his house and his restaurants.
Call the opposing attorney and get tough and tell him there is no way I can put that offer to my client in good conscience when he hasn't disclosed the contents of the safety deposit box at XYZ Bank. Attorney tells me BS his guy listed everything and my client is paranoid. I tell him well let's see what the judge thinks about that.
Two hours later my phone rings. Opposing counsel. "What does your client want?"
Call her.
Call the attorney back. She wants the deal he offered plus $350,000 more and the boat.
Ten minutes later we are drafting the orders.
Never found out what was in the box.
BUT THE WIFE KNEW!
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ahsposo
路路Most fun screen name at 惟FI told my wife I was planning to buy 10 omega watches based on the premises that that would be a manageable amount of watches that I can wear. She is from Finland and doesn't really like talking so I took it as yes when she didn't say anything. So far so good.
I should have held out for a Finnish girl!
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Ray916MN
路Swedes are, give or take, a very screwed up people....... I feel I can say this because A) I'm Swedish and B) I used to work for IKEA..... need I say more.
The tail at the start of this thread is absolutely accurate, while taking your watches apart to blur the numbers is a bit risky I can see where it would work very well on bicycles and can say from experience that it works very well on motorcycles...13 can be slipped into a small townhouse quite easily I've found, although the sidecar was hard to explain (your preggers honey, we'll need a way to get the little sprog around, don't laugh, it worked)
I would add that occasionally proclaiming one of the offending items as "hers" seem to ease the way for slipping another onto the property once in a while, my wife once "owned" 5 motorcycles....... she actually put serious mileage on one of them too.
So I'm a motorcycle collector too. What I found was when I had 5 or 6 it was easy for my wife to keep track of them. To expand I began encouraging my friends to bring their bikes over to my shop to get work done. While I had some friend's bikes in the shop I would make it a point to contrive reasons for her to come out to my shop and wait for her to comment about the number of bikes. I would very carefully and deliberately point out which bikes weren't mine and then provide a detailed description of what work the bike needed. I'm up to 15 now and she tries to avoid coming out to the shop.
I've got a buddy who has a 24 hour rule deal with his wife. He can buy any bike he wants and if his wife doesn't notice it within 24 hours, it stays. I've told him whenever he wants I'll bring some of my bikes over to visit for a while to muddy the waters or if he buys a new bike he can park it at my shop for awhile and borrow one of mine to similarly obscure what is going on.
In the end though, the key in my book is to get the number high enough to make casual tracking impossible. Once you get beyond this point, you're home free with pretty much anything.
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jayrock26
路now the real question is; if she gave you the ultimatum of your collection, or her.
which color strap would you pick?
which color strap would you pick?
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Larry S
路路Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.She used to notice, but speedmasters all look the same so she can't tell them apart. She also lost interest after the third
so I asked 'you don't care at all, do you?'
Nope, she said.
'so you don't want to know if I buy another one?'.
Nope.
OK!
It comes up now and then in conversation with friends and family, along the lines of 'oh, he's into watches. He's got a few.'.
Yes honey, I've got a few.... 馃槈
That's me. Friends colleagues, wife all think I've got this weird hobby no one understands. I go on jags: bicycles, small paddle & sail boats, Records/CD's Audio gear. We drive boring cars and keep em 10 years. She likes the boats tolerates everything else. Getting some noise re: the watches of late as we do retirement planning.
so I asked 'you don't care at all, do you?'
Nope, she said.
'so you don't want to know if I buy another one?'.
Nope.
OK!
It comes up now and then in conversation with friends and family, along the lines of 'oh, he's into watches. He's got a few.'.
Yes honey, I've got a few.... 馃槈
That's me. Friends colleagues, wife all think I've got this weird hobby no one understands. I go on jags: bicycles, small paddle & sail boats, Records/CD's Audio gear. We drive boring cars and keep em 10 years. She likes the boats tolerates everything else. Getting some noise re: the watches of late as we do retirement planning.
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Fritz
路So I'm a motorcycle collector too. What I found was when I had 5 or 6 it was easy for my wife to keep track of them. To expand I began encouraging my friends to bring their bikes over to my shop to get work done. While I had some friend's bikes in the shop I would make it a point to contrive reasons for her to come out to my shop and wait for her to comment about the number of bikes. I would very carefully and deliberately point out which bikes weren't mine and then provide a detailed description of what work the bike needed. I'm up to 15 now and she tries to avoid coming out to the shop.
I've got a buddy who has a 24 hour rule deal with his wife. He can buy any bike he wants and if his wife doesn't notice it within 24 hours, it stays. I've told him whenever he wants I'll bring some of my bikes over to visit for a while to muddy the waters or if he buys a new bike he can park it at my shop for awhile and borrow one of mine to similarly obscure what is going on.
In the end though, the key in my book is to get the number high enough to make casual tracking impossible. Once you get beyond this point, you're home free with pretty much anything.
I've also found it easy to build one up from parts now and then...... they're kind of "free" that way.
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repoman
路She stopped asking at watch number 10 or so, which was about 2 years ago. Last month she started asking again. She was around when the mail arrived and both times said, I thought you stopped buying watches?, and how much did those cost? Last month was a blue Seiko 5 Sport for $143 and this month was a black Seiko 5 Sport for $138.
And you conveniently left out the other recent watches, which were considerably more than the Seiko's. I'll remember this play for the playbook: "Strategically insert a nice looking Seiko, show it off, and then when asked what it cost, proudly say $100. This gambit then allows the purchase of two additional high end time pieces before you get asked again".
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styggpyggeno1
路Getting some noise re: the watches of late as we do retirement planning.
Watches are a part of my retirement planning. You cannot take anything with you in the end. When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling the collection bit by bit (dibs are accepted and noted from now on...) funding nice vacations in warmer places for me and the wife. As I have written elswhere on this site - funding getting silly drunk on grappa and eating fine ten course dinners in northern Italy is my plan for my watches in the end. Wearing a wrinkled up white linen suit and a Panama hat, smoking a fine cigar and pestering the young Italian guys with my anecdotes of what a Lemania Viggen costed in the beginning of the century.
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repoman
路Two hours later my phone rings. Opposing counsel. "What does your client want?"
Call her.
Call the attorney back. She wants the deal he offered plus $350,000 more and the boat.
Ten minutes later we are drafting the orders.
Never found out what was in the box.
BUT THE WIFE KNEW!
As a barely-still married man in California, I think I hate you. 馃榿
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MikiJ
路Watches are a part of my retirement planning. You cannot take anything with you in the end. When retireing (early) in about ten years time it is my plan to start selling the collection bit by bit (dibs are accepted and noted from now on...) funding nice vacations in warmer places for me and the wife. As I have written elswhere on this site - funding getting silly drunk on grappa and eating fine ten course dinners in northern Italy is my plan for my watches in the end. Wearing a wrinkled up white linen suit and a Panama hat, smoking a fine cigar and pestering the young Italian guys with my anecdotes of what a Lemania Viggen costed in the beginning of the century.
I'm insanely jealous, but good for you and your wife. Do tell: What one watch will you save as your everyday timepiece?
Then again maybe the only times you will care about is Day-Time and Night-Time 馃榾
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