How do you guys do it?

[pickup]

Here's the story...The wife and I just bought a beautiful garage with a detached house. The garage is in back of the eyesore blocking my view (sorry honey, I mean your beautiful house disrupts my view...)
Anyway my problem is this...Whenever I bring home or have delivered, some much needed parts (wheels, lockers, various chrome accessories, bigger tires than the ones I just put on 3 mths ago, you know... the stuff a guy really NEEDS!!!) It has to come in from the front, right by the BIG window of the eyesore...I mean "house" thing. (the one the wife is always looking out at the most inopertune times!)
How do you guys sneek stuff in?
This is of course, directed at the guys that have to sneek around due to the wife having an equal "need" to even the score by buying new furniture, expensive clothes and jewelry, and various other high priced items every time something shiny or in a box goes by the window!

 

[Sunk]

Got any nearby friends? You could have it shipped to their house and you could bring it home at your leisure... aka when it's dark and she can't see lol. Or if you could get them shipped to you at work.

 

[Carlos Murphy]

sneakee

It is cheaper to ship to a business than to your house.

O.T.
I fly R/C as dose my friend, he says his wives favorite phrase is "how many planes do you need?"

He keeps the wreckage of a plane under a work bench
in his shop and when he sees a new plane he wants he sadly parades that wreckage through the house after a days flying.
His wife is very sympathetic and he gets a new plane, and a little sumthin fer her.

 

[predator]

store it at a buddies house until she is gone for the day

 

[milje]

He keeps the wreckage of a plane under a work bench
in his shop and when he sees a new plane he wants he sadly parades that wreckage through the house after a days flying.
His wife is very sympathetic and he gets a new plane, and a little sumthin fer her.

That's a pretty good one

 

[Captain Ledd]

It is cheaper to ship to a business than to your house.

O.T.
I fly R/C as dose my friend, he says his wives favorite phrase is "how many planes do you need?"

He keeps the wreckage of a plane under a work bench
in his shop and when he sees a new plane he wants he sadly parades that wreckage through the house after a days flying.
His wife is very sympathetic and he gets a new plane, and a little sumthin fer her.

hmm... slash my tires, drag them through the house with a sad face. get new tires

Brilliant!

actually I think the buddies house is your best option at the moment. Judging from the first post it doesn't sound like the above will work well in this particular situation.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Don't have a wife yet, but for awhile I had to be careful what the parents saw... and boxes brought questions...

My solution was to get stuff delivered to friends or go pick it up myself, hide it in my truck somewhere and wait for an opportune moment to sneak it in and put it to use. Of course, when I moved on to having to buy a 4x4, I naturally would have had a rather difficult time hiding such a thing at home, so I got a friend to let me keep it at their place. Then parts that I couldn't bring home for obvious reasons got piled up next to the truck. Then another truck. And more parts. And....

Dad's solution when he wanted something else was to buy mother something that she wanted/would use but never really asked for (shotgun, etc). While mother is pacified that way, various packages slip through the shield.

 

[metalmacguyver]

well i used to fix lawn mowers (well tried to) to make money. i was good at fixing them but i wanted more. i ended up collecting more than i could fix and the area under my deck and part of the yard was filled to the hilt with junk lawnmowers that i had no time to fix. i stopped doing that and have since cleaned out. my parents much prefer the stuff i bring home now because there is so much less of it and i can actually tell them what it will all be used for when they ask "why is that taking up space?"

Its the lesser of two evils.

 

[DeanMoriarty]

Explain to her how "all the other guys" blow all their money on hookers. Tell her they make fun of you for having such a strong commitment to your marriage and spending your money instead on parts for your truck. Pretend to wipe a tear from your eye, kiss her and tell her she's "worth it."

 

[JFA_Spyderman]

I have it shipped to work.

 

[Bent Bolt]

I fly R/C as dose my friend, he says his wives favorite phrase is "how many planes do you need?"

:

I reply to my wife " how many purses do you NEED ? "

Actually, she pretty good at that sort of thing and I'm up front with what I buy/get for myself. It all works out in the end and we don't break the bank doing it.

 

[86ford]

I reply to my wife " how many purses do you NEED ? "

Actually, she pretty good at that sort of thing and I'm up front with what I buy/get for myself. It all works out in the end and we don't break the bank doing it.

the first honest guy so far.

86

 

[bottledgt]

my wife just takes the parts or tells the guy to leave them in front of my garage. seriously if you have to sneak stuff past your wife, you have one i would never want

 

[BlackBII]

I reply to my wife " how many purses do you NEED ? "
QUOTE]

Don't even get me started on my Fiance's purses.......

I did the friends house thing and the work thing, but eventually they begin to wonder where all these lift kits and super swampers and motorcycle engines and turbos and intercoolers and complete body kits are coming from, because they just appear in my shop, she comes out there every once in awhile.

Her after a while
"Where did all this crap come from?"

"Where is all my new crap?"


But really, the friends house will work, until she realizes that there is all this new shiny stuff that she didn't know about, lol

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I reply to my wife " how many purses do you NEED ? "

Don't even get me started on my Fiance's purses.......

I did the friends house thing and the work thing, but eventually they begin to wonder where all these lift kits and super swampers and motorcycle engines and turbos and intercoolers and complete body kits are coming from, because they just appear in my shop, she comes out there every once in awhile.

Her after a while
"Where did all this crap come from?"

"Where is all my new crap?"


But really, the friends house will work, until she realizes that there is all this new shiny stuff that she didn't know about, lol

My usual answer to the question about where something shiny new came from is "oh, I've had that for a long time now...." and expand as required. Usually that response is quite honest... despite the fact that certain key details are left out...