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[Question] Do you lie to your significant other about your collection (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by irfaanihsanjaffer@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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I’m finding it harder and harder to tell my wife that I’m buying a new watch. After about 4 watches, she can’t understand why I would buy more. I’m curious as to smartest or most interesting way that someone has used to get around this issue.

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[–] dodge81@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

When I first started trying to grow my collection, maybe 4-5 years back I was a bit embarrassed to admit to my wife that I wanted to spend some of my newly found pay rise on more watches, so I bought a cheap one (think it was about £90) and showed her. Explained as best I could that I loved watches, but would never spend any of the house money on them, it would only ever be ‘spare’ money. (No idea what that is anymore like….)

I found then that being upfront about it all meant she was happy I wouldn’t bankrupt us, and I was happy that I could continue with my obsession. She knows that I would sell a watch to fund something if/when needed also and not do anything daft.

She’s now part of the hobby albeit in a smaller way than myself, and even took me to a boutique in Sorrento earlier this year to try on a Monaco I’d been mumbling about wanting. (I bottled out of the purchase though!!)