Am i the only one lying to his wife about how much this stuff costs?!

Absolutely not. I'm pretty sure most of us at one time or another led our significant others to believe something was less than what we spent. I'm also certain that she's done the same to me. She doesn't ask, I don't reveal. 

 Ha Ha Ha , I bet half the married guys on here told a few whoppers

My Crickets are about 60 dollars, The cheap little Mutant was 50 bucks, The compressor cost more to ship than its worth,
I got to make a will out,,,, or a lot of stuff is going cheap.
My brothers know.
Mike

My wife would not ask how much my hobby cost because she knows I would counter with a question of how much her hobby is costing her but if she really did ask, I would not lie to her and brace myself.

You paid $60.00 bucks for the Cricket!!! My buddy said he got his at the swap meet for a Fifth of Jim Beam and 2 pairs of Army socks. 

I don't lie to my wife about the cost of my airguns. That said, I don't give her any figures about them at all. She's pretty sure they are expensive, she just doesn't know how expensive. I guess she figures since I buy her some jewelry and perfume, neither of which is cheap, she can't complain of my self-indulgence.
Jack

Someone on the GTA had in their signature: "my worst fear is that after I die my wife will sell my airguns for what I told her they cost..."

I would never lie to my wife about how much my airguns cost. I don't tell her how much they cost and lie about how much I paid for them

"ztirffritz"Someone on the GTA had in their signature: "my worst fear is that after I die my wife will sell my airguns for what I told her they cost..."

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That would be me LOL

Even some of my friends that look at my (example) 22 Cricket and say I got about 2,500 in it,
Say your nuts man, Really its more like 2,800 with the tune and all....
But they are not gun people.
Some people just do not under stand....
Mike

I never lie to anyone, because when someone starts lying to people, he/she will likely get good at it very fast. It all starts small, but in most cases, it ends big
My wife doesn't care, she knows it's an expensive hobby, but luckily we don't have any shortcomings regarding primary things.
She even stood next to me when I was paying for a laminate stocked Royale and she didn't even flinch
Now only if I could not feed our family anymore, it would be a different story.
I definitely would not buy an expensive airgun if it were my last bucks. It's just not worth it.

My wife handles the finance in our family, both for my business, as well as privately. So even if I wanted to, I couldn't lie about it. My motto is 'honesty is the best policy', I couldn't find myself lying to here. There's a better strategy; if you want something for yourself, give her something she wants. Works way better, also for your karma.  

nope...... no your not....

I say it in humor but I really don't have to lie. I have a monthly "discretionary" budget or what some people call an allowance. I can spend it on whatever I want. If I want something airgun related I will save my pennies and get it. Our household budget don't have to take a hit. Or if I see something i really want and don't have available funds, i will let my other half know I spent a certain amount from the household budget but I have to replace it from my allowance.

As a veteran of the whole marriage gig, when I was planning to get engaged with my wife, a frank discussion was held. She makes money, I make money; we agreed in advance on who would pay which household bills. Any money each of us had left over after the bills were paid were discretionary funds for us to spend how we felt. She rolls her eyes and laughs at some of my purchases, but that is pretty much it. As long as the bills are paid, and the house is maintained, she has no significant gripes. 

​ I tried the whole "common pot of money" thing with my first spouse. It didn't work. There always seemed to be things which sucked funds out of the common pool. Sometimes I even learned some of these doo-dads my ex wanted detracted from the ability to purchase lunch at work. Common pools only work when the two people are exactly in line on financial goals. 

​ Simply put, I pay the bills, and when a lump of money is left over, a toy is purchased. Each of us have our own bank account; this works really well.

At my age a wife would not be cost effective and my toys are more comforting anyway.

This could possibly be the best thread ever. Sitting next to the wife she keeps asking why I'm chuckling so much Anyway been going through this for years with my powder burners, then I got addicted to this hobby. Fortunately I have a son whos into airsoft and those are also REALLY expensive. She cuts me slack since I shoot with him and we have so much fun doing it. She yells once in a while when she scans the c card statement then she's over it. Basically she doesn't ask I don't tell.

My wife is very understanding! She handles the bank account and has full descression to buy what ever she wants as long as it doesn't take from the family's needs. In return I get to do the same. I fact I talked and talked about getting my Vulcan so long she took it upon herself to go onto talon tunes put all the bank info in and said there the hard world is done all you have to do is click the mouse and it will be on the way! I am so lucky

I've been married about 3 years. I started out voluntarily telling her, and she hit the roof. She's a saver, I'm a spender. So I agree 100% to what addertooth said.

We finally got tired of fighting and decided to split everything up. She wants to put every last penny into her son's 529b account for college, then make extra mortgage payments, then redo the kitchen and bathroom, etc.

I want to pay the bills, put a reasonable amount into retirement, kids' college, etc, then have some play money for airguns and vacation. Only way for us to stay married is to have separate accounts.

In the interim, what I've been doing is selling one (for $300) and buying one. (for $1,000) Then, if she saw the new gun come in, I could tell her it replaces the one I shipped out last week. If she doesn't see it come in, fine. (encouraged, even!) But I make sure she sees the old ones going out.

The NP2 I just bought, I was so proud of the price, I told her voluntarily again. ($116) She's still not impressed, since I have "too many guns."