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My DH can't say a word. His hobby is triathlon, and with his stable of FIVE bikes (most recent purchase was a $3400 Kuota), wetsuits, race fees, travel expenses, heartrate monitors, GPS training gear, clothes for all season training, pool fees, etc., etc., his hobby is way more expensive than mine. Whew! No guilt on my part, for sure!
OHMIGOSH- that's my husband!!! He wants a new tri- bike for $2000+ so I told him to get a part time job at a bike store to support his addiction, since my addiction pays for itself! LOL!
No stamping hubby around here, though it would not surprise me to see him dig into it eventually.
That said, he is good at making me look at things in different ways. I am not the most creative person and there's been more than once where he has dropped a comment or two about stuff (or supplies) I wouldn't give the time or day and it has totally turned my thinking about using it and how to use it.
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My hubby is very understanding where stamping is concerned. He knows that I wouldn't spend money that we needed for other things, and as long as I'm home stamping I'm not doing something I shouldn't be doing.
My funny DH story: A year or so ago I had been to Hobby Lobby shopping and rubon's were half off so of course I bought a bunch. Well, I was showing DH everything I had gotten and telling him how everything I bought was half off. He gets out one set of the MM alpha rubon's and rubs all the dots off of all the I's!!!! He says he couldn't resist, it just looked like so much fun! I asked him why he couldn't have had fun with all the Z's?
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Mine MADE me get the Cuttllebug LOL! He saw me looking at it online and told me that I should just get it! So I did. He has never begrudged me anything I buy, but he also, has an expensive hobby. Actually, we are both pretty frugal people in most ways and feel that if this is part of enjoying life, to go for it. On the other hand, we will shop 3 stores for the best deal on a $20 item.
Cute story...it's great that your dh now sees and understands why we "need" all that we "need". I'm fortunate my dh does support my hobby wholeheartedly...even built a stamp area for me in one of our for the most part unused bedrooms. Think we are lucky to have guys that enjoy what we do. My dh has a woodworking hobby that he spends plenty on so he never complains about what I spend. He uses some of my tools (heat gun, paper trimmer, punches, and card stock) from time to time but doesn't have any desire to try actual stamping.
That's very cute! That said, my dh would probably make me mad by making a better card than I could make and do it quicker :-) so I'm NOT letting him near my things. He can look, but not touch!
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Aww my hubby is like that too. He would ACTUALLY make cards for my birthday/valentines/annivesary, etc. He thinks it is wrong to buy cards because I make and sell cards. His cards are always cute and so special to me.
My DH can't say a word. His hobby is triathlon, and with his stable of FIVE bikes (most recent purchase was a $3400 Kuota), wetsuits, race fees, travel expenses, heartrate monitors, GPS training gear, clothes for all season training, pool fees, etc., etc., his hobby is way more expensive than mine. Whew! No guilt on my part, for sure!
Reply...I'm with you on the husband spending $$ and no guilt. We don't have just one specific thing to pinpoint it to either. He has club fees for two soccer teams and a basketball team....
Plus he can't ever seem to do anything halfway. Our laptop died...time for a new one. I go to Dell's web site and find something I like for $600. He emails me back telling me he bought one for twice that! That is more than half a year of SU hobby demo minimums alone!
But at least he is supportive. Everytime I fill up a counter or table with a project....he looks at me and states "you need more stuff"! ;)
Love all of your DH stories Seems we all love our significant others weather they support, whine or are indifferent 'bout our hobbies. Mine is very supportive. He gets a kick out of me being on SCS when I have spare time. He has bought me stamps and even a digital camera for starting a gallery and keeping record of cards. His business is store signs and has even plugged my cards for sale at two different stores, who will actually sell them for me, problem is I don't have alot of time to stamp and build a good healthy stock. Anyhow......he is very sweet about it, encouraging and doesn't have a clue 'bout how much I spend on it;) Oh well, he bear and dear hunts, fishes on the great lakes, golfs, collects Nascar memorabelia....need I say more. Thanks for thread!
I love that story! I get mine to support my hobby/habit/love by letting him do his -- hanggliding, snowboarding, bicycling ... he's very adventurous. He doesn't say anything about the millions of stamps, but he does sometimes ask people if they received one of my "thousand dollar cards." Heehee.
that won't work for me plus it's already past that I did however ask first to join stamp camp and he said I could But didn't realize I would spend about 50.00 a month.Which I said well how much do you spend golfing.not to mention the league he joins every year.and all the tournaments that cost extra to join.Plus any clothes he has to has to support his hobby.So I told him there's no differance.my isn't any more expensive than his.Mine just shows more.because of the products.His is more physical.
Are our DH's related??? This is pretty much how our converstaion went.
I am very new to stamping and was introduced to SU! last summer. Of course, I felt like I just had to have EVERYTHING! I was able to control my impulses and for the most part only purchased the basics: ink, paper, stamp sets and adhesive. When he saw me unpacking my box, he just had this stunned expression on his face and said, "There's no way you NEED all of this crap." Me? "Crap? It's not CRAP!"
So, for the most part I've only bought extra stuff here and there. Last weekend he was trying to get me to play XBOX with him ("You mean you NEED all 40 of those games?" ). I told him that I would play XBOX if he made a Happy Birthday card with me for my Dad - thinking the whole time that there was no way in hell he would take me up on my offer. Yeah. I was wrong. He said, "Sure...show me what to do." So, after the initial shock, I was showing him different things.
"Well, how do I make this stamp straight...it keeps stamping crooked!"
"Well, honey, they make this cool little thing called a Stampin-Ma-Jig."
"But, I don't want this whole phrase blue. Can I make part of it red?"
"Here, you can use the markers for that, but I don't have a red color."
"You need a red color."
"WHAT? NEED?!!!"
"Yeah. Actually, you need them all."
At the end of our little session, after going through how different things could make stamping life easier and oh so much prettier, HE had a list of the things I NEEDED. :o
"Order this stuff. I don't know why you just didn't order it in the first place."
HAHAHAHA...So, ladies, maybe it can work for you, too!:mrgreen:
What a cute story! He's definitely a keeper!
My dh supports me mostly, because I let him play golf whenever and wherever he wants to. He has made me one, and only one card, and that was on our wedding day over 5 years ago. It was so sweet! But he does take advantage of my hobby as I have come up with stuff to finish several of his presentations. I don't think he has ANY clue how much my stuff is actually worth. I think we'll keep it that way!
That is a great story!!! I have been telling DH for a bit now that I need to become a demo for the % off...I would be a hobby demo at least for the time being...he is much more supportive of the plunge now that he has PS3 and a Nintendo Wii...go figure. But he did help me with our Christmas cards/newsletters...I had to buy him his own heat gun so he would leave mine alone!!! HA!
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