Excuses for buying guns.

[blain]

What excuses have you given to your wife/gf/ or significant other ,to justify buying a new gun without having a conflict?

"We need it to maintain the breath of life, during mostly peaceful protests."

 

[INP8riot]

I bought 1 gun the wife knew about, without here there, and I haven't lived it down to this day. She loves the gun buying process, going to the store and picking it out!

 

[Mongo59]

I just buy them so fast she gets a kink in her neck just trying to watch and count them.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Refrigerator27]

She doesn’t ask because she doesn’t want to sit through a 2 hour lecture and PowerPoint of me needing out on why the design, material science, performance, etc etc is better superior on this part/gun vs the previous one.

 

[Chewie]

My SWMBO knows that I justify my purchases very carefully (do I need/want, etc) so she doesn't say much. Besides she doesn't want to explain the bruises I have to the ER doc (not to mention the dish towel tied around my neck).

In reality, I just get the eye roll/sigh/side eye combo with a side order of harumph!

 

[gregkl]

My wife doesn't care what I buy. Then again, she knows I talk myself out of buying more than I do buying.

Plus, at this stage in life, I am done buying firearms and she knows it.

 

[Farmerjon]

For the past 20+ years I buy her a handgun for a Valentine's gift if we can afford it and there is one she has shown interest in. Money was tight this year so no gun on the day of, but eventually a gun will appear she shows interest in and it is purchased. She knows which ones are hers and what year it represents, me, heck if I know. We shoot all of them and enjoy them. I get cleaning detail.

 

[1nderbeard]

I got a great deal is my go to

 

[BigMoose]

Lets see, it goes something like this..

I buy a gun..

Wife will give a look over, it will ether get a shrug, or "Okay this one is my gun, I like this one"

Ether way they go in the same safe in my room, as I am the "Maintainer, Cleaner, and Librarian of the guns"

We both shoot the guns in there. Though some of then, she probably won't touch (Garand, M14, the 12 gauge tactical shotguns)

 

[singlesix]

She has her hobby and I have mine, long as the bills are paid why would there be an issue?

 

[Jont22]

No reason needed here either. It’s more about self control.

 

[Bassat]

I am 67 years old and still working full-time. Holding off on collecting SocSec until 70. Under those circumstances I will buy whatever I feel I need, whenever I feel I need it. My wife knows that. She knows I won't get stupid about it. I don't care what she buys, either. She has a job.

 

[Creedmoor]

I am 67 years old and still working full-time. Holding off on collecting SocSec until 70. Under those circumstances I will buy whatever I feel I need, whenever I feel I need it. My wife knows that. She knows I won't get stupid about it. I don't care what she buys, either. She has a job.

I gotta ask, why are you holding off on taking your 100% SS, you can still work and add to it if you desire?

 

[daddyusmaximus]

BIC

Because I Can

 

[gregkl]

I gotta ask, why are you holding off on taking your 100% SS, you can still work and add to it if you desire?

67 may be FRA(Full Retirement Age), but it is not the max. 70 is when your SS maxes out.

I'm doing the same but retiring at 65 and will wait until I'm 70 to start drawing SS.

 

[Bassat]

I gotta ask, why are you holding off on taking your 100% SS, you can still work and add to it if you desire?

If I wait until 70, my monthly benefit goes up by over $1,000 a month (over benefit at 66-1/2). My wife has no health problems and her family lives into their 90s. I have all sorts of cardiovascular health problems and right now am tied with the longest lived member of my family in 3 generations. My wife may well collect that extra $1,000 a month for 30+ years after I go. If we both get to collect SocSec, all the better. I'll be here to help her spend it. Like she needs help spending money.

 

[Bassat]

67 may be FRA(Full Retirement Age), but it is not the max. 70 is when your SS maxes out.

I'm doing the same but retiring at 65 and will wait until I'm 70 to start drawing SS.

Exactly. Once you start collecting, your benefit is fixed. I can afford to NOT take it now. Doing so would be kinda stupid. I do realize not everyone is in this position.

 

[chadm]

What excuses have you given to your wife/gf/ or significant other ,to justify buying a new gun without having a conflict? And go......

I only own two guns. The first one I purchased, and the last one I purchased.

 

[Bassat]

I gotta ask, why are you holding off on taking your 100% SS, you can still work and add to it if you desire.

That is exactly what I am doing. The longer I work, the more I collect. Once you start collecting, you benefit is fixed.

 

[Creedmoor]

67 may be FRA(Full Retirement Age), but it is not the max. 70 is when your SS maxes out.

I'm doing the same but retiring at 65 and will wait until I'm 70 to start drawing SS.

Yes I'm aware, how many years will it take for you to get the difference back along with you still working.
Max benefit at 67 & 6 months is $3.822 a month on SS. So that will gross $167,000 dollars you can invest before you turn 70 and still live and add to your SS with still working.
if you work until 70 its now $4,873 a month on SS. The break over is like 13+years and thats without the interest from the 167,000 you saved before turning 70.
Will it matter when you are like 85? will you be alive at 85?
Help me understand?