Sneaking purchases...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sneaking purchases...
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Thu, 03-25-2004 - 11:10am

I was reading another board about sneaking purchases past their husband's. I know I use to sneak before we started doing our finances together. I would actually come home during lunch to get the mail or unload packages. I was pitiful. Even now, I will bring things in the house and wince thinking how upset Devin would be with me.


So, have you ever hid purchases or not told your DH the whole picture of your finances? We use to horrible fights about finances. I would do the weekly budget and e-mail him it. We would discuss it and everything was fine. Then, he would tell me two days later that he was doing a marathon that cost $75.00. I had to actually ask him before we did the budget-Do you have any marathons? Do you need shoes? Do you have any equipment you need? Can you tell I

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:31am
Well the only white shoes I own are my Keds. And I'm wearing those year round.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:35am
I'm playing the devil's advocate, but "swimming with the tide" will in some instances will help one get ahead. If the powers that be sees you as "one of them" or being "part of the team" (whether it's right or not) then you may have a little edge towards that promotion. The way I see it is it doesn't hurt me to *not* wear white or black or capris or whatever to work so if it's going to help me in any way, that's what I'm going to do.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:41am
Yeah but it doesnt SNOW where you are! I'd freeze in white keds. (Looking out my window at the 2 feet of snow on the ground.....is it spring yet???)


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Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:41am
But i'm not talking about others in their circumstances .. I'm talking about me. And conforming to fashion "rules" won't help me a bit. No one is gonna pay me less, promote me slower, etc if I wear white after Labor Day. It *won't* have an effect on me. If it would, I'd adhere to the rule ... not because some society mavens 400 years ago made the rule, but because I would benefit.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:45am
Understood. You're a *practical* gal like me, then.
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:52am

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:53am
Hey, it snows here! Just not much. Heck, we had 6.5 inches in one night this winter ... and 4 inches another night ... and ...well, that was it! lol

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:58am
Pfft. We got almost a foot just LAST WEEK!! I hate this time of year because we always get a couple *teasers* that it is spring, then it SNOWS again! I think we are FINALLY on the downside though, its supposed to warm up this weekend (to 40, lol).

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Dj

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 9:59am
And see, I wouldn't be caught dead in white flats or heels ... lol .. they just wouldn't go with anything in my wardrobe.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 04-01-2004 - 10:25am
It was as good or better than the past couple years.

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