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What do you tell your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/live-in parole officer?

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Ryan.

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Haha. The acting in that commercial is REALLY good.

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Dr. Balls

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Haha. The acting in that commercial is REALLY good.

 

That thing looks like a handheld roto-rooter. You might want to check her Priority Mail boxes next time they come in!

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Ryan.

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Haha. The acting in that commercial is REALLY good.

 

That thing looks like a handheld roto-rooter. You might want to check her Priority Mail boxes next time they come in!

 

The irony would be if I checked out her shipping boxes and found a bunch of Zenescope CGC SSs that she'd been secretly hoarding.

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Man, talk about slow shipping! Did you get yours yet?

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Man, talk about slow shipping! Did you get yours yet?

 

I'm waiting on the personalized engraved inscription.

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Dr. Balls

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Man, talk about slow shipping! Did you get yours yet?

 

I'm waiting on the personalized engraved inscription.

 

PROPERTY OF FINGH. NOT A FLASHLIGHT FOR BLIND PEOPLE.

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Tell her it is the new Trojan Vibrations Twister, and you've heard it will really blow her hair back.

 

Man, talk about slow shipping! Did you get yours yet?

 

I'm waiting on the personalized engraved inscription.

 

PROPERTY OF FINGH. NOT A FLASHLIGHT FOR BLIND PEOPLE.

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First thing you don't want to lie to your girlfriend/ fiance,just tell her the truth.

Set the bar at the beginning of your relationship, otherwise she will keep taking without some giving.I involve my wife in my hobby,instead of alienating her away from it.My wife is actually a great grader,and when we go to cons she usually picks out books that are much nicer grades than I would have bought.Don't buy books at a fever pitch,because you have to give too! It works both ways,finding a happy medium is the key to a happy relationship.

 

+1. The current lady is very amicable to the collecting hobby and also enjoys the cons (earlier relationships, not so much :P ) . From the beginning she said "It's your money, you do what you want with it. As long as the power stays on and we're not getting an eviction notice enjoy yourself." We have the combined fund for bills/expenses/savings, the rest is is just play money for our personal vices.

 

It's the same for her when it comes to romance novels or medieval weaponry, as long as she has the money (and we have the space) she can bring home as much as she wants. The Kindle has helped immensely with the space-saving as far as the books are concerned, but no such luck with the rest.

 

Besides, if I did try to hide any aspect of the collecting and she found out she may decide to take the claymore down from the perch and use it on me :eek:

 

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Have you tried telling her the truth?

 

 

Eff that noise. My wife still thinks I play for the Globetrotters. I just whip out the team picture.

 

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Dr. Balls

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Man-up, tell what they are and work it out. Do you want to be sneaking your comics into your house for the rest of your life?

 

Does Al Bundy sneak Big Uns into his house because he doesn't want to deal with Peg? Hell yes, he does!

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Man-up, tell what they are and work it out. Do you want to be sneaking your comics into your house for the rest of your life?

 

+1.

 

Seriously, you guys. Get a spine. You shouldn't spend yourself into oblivion, but other than that, do what you want. When I was single, the second a girlfriend complained about my book buying, they were out the door.

 

It's amazing how many guys I see at shows who get bullied by their wives and gf's. I've seen the scowls, followed by the beer-belly push along (where the wife or gf pretends they're being pushed from behind by the crowd, into their husband, just to keep their guy from stopping to buy). This technique is closely related to the "Hey, look at that..." method, which is only effective if used the very second the husband smiles at an item. This, too, follows a scowl from the gf.

 

I thought I was being misogynistic when I first started noticing this. Then my sister, who was helping me at shows, expressed her shock at how prevalent this was.

 

If your spouse is giving you a hard time about buying books, it's just as likely that the problem is them as it is your spending habits. Hiding it only encourages the behaviour.

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I cannot help but feed my addiction to buying books in the marketplace. It's my vice and there's no stopping it. Therefore, every 5 days or so I receive a package in the mail, usually a Priority mailing box about the size and weight of a CGCed comic, and my girlfriend asks me what it is. I have told her that I will stop buying comics for a while so we can properly save our money for a wedding, nicer apartment, burlap sacks for clothing, etc. Clearly I haven't stopped. What should I start telling her is in those boxes? I know I'm not the only one here with this problem. :ohnoez:

You could tell her that they are a set of prosthetic testicles to replace the ones that are currently buried in her purse. :slapfight:

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I cannot help but feed my addiction to buying books in the marketplace. It's my vice and there's no stopping it. Therefore, every 5 days or so I receive a package in the mail, usually a Priority mailing box about the size and weight of a CGCed comic, and my girlfriend asks me what it is. I have told her that I will stop buying comics for a while so we can properly save our money for a wedding, nicer apartment, burlap sacks for clothing, etc. Clearly I haven't stopped. What should I start telling her is in those boxes? I know I'm not the only one here with this problem. :ohnoez:

You could tell her that they are a set of prosthetic testicles to replace the ones that are currently buried in her purse. :slapfight:

:roflmao: Grow a set,and tell her you were collecting before her.If she doesn't like it there's the door. :taptaptap:

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