Wife won't let me buy the XboxOne

[Anonymous]

Man up and join the Marines. Stop playing little boy games.

[Anonymous]

Buy it. Unless you think she already bought it for you for Christmas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to call her DW. But at my salary level I should be able to buy anything I want. She thinks "it's for kids" even though this is how we stream netflix and hulu. And yes I play Madden with my college buddies at 2am somenights when she's snoring off her wine. I'm actually quite upset about this.

Dude. My wife is cooler than yours. She bought one for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No she's pissed because she can't understand why I'd want to spend $600 on the bundle.

How much are her hair cuts? Her purses? Her shoes?

Give her the back of your hand and tell her to shut the hell up.

[Anonymous]

You mention that at your salary, you should be able to afford one. Do you have the cash to buy one? Are you saving money each month, in general?

I make enough money to buy one; the xbox one is about one days wages. But, my expenses are high. No xbox one for me.

[Anonymous]

Really? This is so sad. You are a grown man. Buy your play toy. I am thinking maybe she already bought you the game system. If not you need to sit down and talk about each of you having a "fun" account.

[Anonymous]

I'll bet she spends a ton on things the "family needs" -- when, really the family doesn't need these things; she wants them. She sees your expenditure as cutting into stuff she wants.

[Anonymous]

Ha, I spent a week tracking online sites to get DH a PS4. Yes, I think he is a little boy on the inside, but grown men deserve their toys too. I think it is time to have a talk about financial priorities (i.e., you have the money, it isn't needed for saving up for any other expense, you haven't splurged on 50 other things this year, etc.)

[Anonymous]

not only should you buy it, you should but a ps4 as well and a wii u to really show her who wears the pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your wife a regular poster here ?

BUY THE DAMN THING. Show her YOU wear the pants in the family !

Wow. I can safely assume Dr. Phil has just chimed in....

The next thing to show the pants is to smash the Xbox with a hammer. That'll show him, right?

Wrong. Get her to buy it for you. Find a way my man. Still stuck? Ask me later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to call her DW. But at my salary level I should be able to buy anything I want. She thinks "it's for kids" even though this is how we stream netflix and hulu. And yes I play Madden with my college buddies at 2am somenights when she's snoring off her wine. I'm actually quite upset about this.

Like all other good little boys wait until Christmas or Chanukah

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's not about the money but the amount of time it takes away from spending time with the family. How is easy is to recover from a night of Madden and/or do you park in front of the TV all day on Sunday to watch Football all day?

[DS63]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to call her DW. But at my salary level I should be able to buy anything I want. She thinks "it's for kids" even though this is how we stream netflix and hulu. And yes I play Madden with my college buddies at 2am somenights when she's snoring off her wine. I'm actually quite upset about this.

Like all other good little boys wait until Christmas or Chanukah

And Thanksgivukkah is in two days

[Anonymous]

Layaway!

Really, though, if you are contributing and have the money available, you need to go ahead and buy it. It's time to take on some of the money management responsibilities too.

[Anonymous]

Disagree.

I handle finances for us. Sometimes despite our incomes we can't affirmed to buy everything my husband wants. We are saving for mutually important lt goals (college fund, retirement, building a house). We just bought a new car (his). Xmas is coming. We can't buy everything he (or I) wants the day he wants it. There is x money and y desires. My husband forgets and assumes we have tons if money bc we make a lot. He forgets about the exigences kart (mortgage, childcare, etc). So if he wants something like this to come from the household budget then yes, I control that decision because he admittedly cannot handhe mobley (major debt when we married which I paid off). If he wants it badly enough he needs to buy it from his spending money (not household funds).