Your Significant Other and the Smurf Budget
PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:08 am
For the big smurf spenders out there, do you ever find yourself in hot water with the spouse?
I've caught myself a couple of times doing "funny accounting"--having the package shipped to my mum, then writing my mum a cheque, recording the expense as "groceries" or "stuff". I guess this isn't ethical. My burning problem is that there's an old-style windmill I want to get, but it's after Christmas. There's also an old style farmhouse that has caught my eye. Needless to say, even in a best case scenario, I don't dare get both of them... WHY COULDN'T I HAVE STARTED COLLECTING SMURFS WHEN I WAS SINGLE?
And, it's not really about the money. A $100 bucks here. A $100 bucks there. OK, nobody died. BUT IT ISN'T EXACTLY RESPONSIBLE. Is there a threshold after which Bob and Frank show up at the door in dark suits with Bibles and the revelation that "you have a problem, but there's help."
I don't have a problem. Smurf collecting isn't a crime. It's just not a virtue, either.
I've caught myself a couple of times doing "funny accounting"--having the package shipped to my mum, then writing my mum a cheque, recording the expense as "groceries" or "stuff". I guess this isn't ethical. My burning problem is that there's an old-style windmill I want to get, but it's after Christmas. There's also an old style farmhouse that has caught my eye. Needless to say, even in a best case scenario, I don't dare get both of them... WHY COULDN'T I HAVE STARTED COLLECTING SMURFS WHEN I WAS SINGLE?
And, it's not really about the money. A $100 bucks here. A $100 bucks there. OK, nobody died. BUT IT ISN'T EXACTLY RESPONSIBLE. Is there a threshold after which Bob and Frank show up at the door in dark suits with Bibles and the revelation that "you have a problem, but there's help."
I don't have a problem. Smurf collecting isn't a crime. It's just not a virtue, either.