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So you just added another lens to your collection or you just bought a DSLR/P&S/etc. that you've been planning to get, by winning a bid on ebay, or picking one up at the local store, etc. You come home with your fairly expensive purchase, do you tell your parents (if you're still in school) or your significant other (wife, husband, fiance, etc)?

Do you show them your receipt? Or you just hide your gear when you get home? Or say you bought it for a much lower price? ;)

(It also depends whose money you are spending, as I assume most people here spend their own earned money. It also depends if the person you are telling to is more into saving or more into spending.)
 
Not a chance--they would bug me to death for spending maybe 50% of my monthly salary on toys (they think my plastic models are toys, they think my computer is a toy, they think my UMAX Astra cam is a toy and so's my D40) so to avoid the bugging, I hide them or cover them with newspapers...lucky I don't live with them.

Probably won't get married unless and until I klick all of my hobbies--I cannot afford a marriage, much less children, if I keep my hobbies.

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UMAX AstraCam (Hate-Hate relationship), Nikon 21OO (Love-Hate), 54OO (Steep Learning Curve), 84OO (Not-so-Steep), Canon A51O (Full-Featured but Soft), Sony Ericsson P91Oi's (O.3MP, for Pete's sake! Hate-Hate), Panasonic FZ2OK (Very Sharp but Noisy), Fujifilm F7OO (Inconsistant WB), F2O (The Ultimate P&S), D4O (Love-Love).
 
We have had a deal for years, each gets to spend identical amounts on what we want.

It use to be me getting Remote control airplanes and her getting art. The cameras have changed that, now we have nearly identical kits. She may not pick much out but wants everything I get. Instant backup...Wooohooo
JimB
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It all started long ago and far away with a lowly OM-G

The OM of Getto cams
 
What kinda relation would that be otherwise?

I am grown up and she could have married someone else if she didn't agree with this.
M.
 
Fins wrote:
do you tell your parents
Fins said:
(if you're still in school) or your significant other (wife,
husband, fiance, etc)?
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You Bet - for two reasons...(1) My wife and I have always had an open and honest relationship. (2) She is the supervisor at the Credit Union where we bank (and my check is directly deposited). She watches our accounts like a hawk. In fact she's even called me on the cell to ask if I just spent so and so amount of money. Fortunately she's very good about me spending money on my interests as long as I don't get carried away, (which is easy for me to do).
 
But I have the good fortune to have a non-joint-property account with a debit card, billing address set to my office, so she doesn't see the packages. If it was joint money I'd feel pretty slimey, but it isn't.

I did have to declare my 400/5.6, that's just too big and too white to hide. She went predictably nuts even though it wasn't her money. Luckily she's not remotely interested in cameras or up on the models. If she ever notices my "20D" says "1dsII" on the front you'll see me in the news as "body parts wash up on beach".

Although really, at this point, I've pretty much got what I want. My last big purchase was a Leica 19/2.8 over a year ago. Other than maybe a Zigview there's just not much I'm lusting after these days. Especially since Canon made their pushes-new-ISO-boundaries camera a 1.3x instead of FF.

Sadly, what I really want--more time to shoot--can't be put on Visa or delivered by FedEx.
 
My wife is simply wonderful, she has no problem when me spending money on my hobbies/business, the only problem is that we don't have it to spend;) In the same regard, she has her hobby/business (I say it that way because we both make more money then we spend, but it IS what we love to do) and I never worry about what she spends on it;)
 
Hey! Another modeller! Well, there ya go. I thought I was the only one here.

And I, too, have no desire to be married (again, in my case) - too many toys, not enough time!
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Rob

If you're bored...
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'Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.' Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
 
Me, myself, and I.

Sometimes I elect to discuss the merits of the "purchase" with my son, who is also a photographer, but the decision to purchase is solely mine.

Well, OK, I do also have to make sure my personal or business checking account remain happy before making a purchase but rarely has this been an issue.

As for the parents / spouse issue, I have neither. My parents passed many years ago and I've been happily single for a long time.

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Jerry
http://www.jbellphotography.com
 
I just came back from a Gospel weekend, singing about the Truth all the time. Better confess your purchases than live with guilt, it will eat at you.
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Windmills, just do it.
 
BraveUlysses said:
Hey! Another modeller! Well, there ya go. I thought I was the only
one here.
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yeah, in a geeky hobby/profession like photography, it's a shock that people here engage in other geeky activityies. ;D

I'm into models, too, but only the warhammer/D&D kind.
 
Could he not hide the receipt and say 10 hail mary's and ask for forgiveness. Just this once.
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Malcolm

I see the wheel is spinning, but the hamster looks dead.
 
MJMA1 said:
Could he not hide the receipt and say 10 hail mary's and ask for
forgiveness. Just this once.
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Malcolm

I see the wheel is spinning, but the hamster looks dead.
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No, not even when you are Catholic, i.e. semi religious.
--
Windmills, just do it.
 
MJMA1 said:
Could he not hide the receipt and say 10 hail mary's and ask for
forgiveness. Just this once.
--
Malcolm

I see the wheel is spinning, but the hamster looks dead.
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The equipment I use is liberated from the capitalist system. I spread the word to the proletariat that these things can be done and that there is no need to submit to the capitalist oppressors demands that we 'buy'from them what is ours in the first place.

Shay son of Che
 
I am fully religous, but if I bought a new lens and the wife found, she would have my big sigma away.
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Malcolm

I see the wheel is spinning, but the hamster looks dead.
 
shay guevara said:
MJMA1 said:
Could he not hide the receipt and say 10 hail mary's and ask for
forgiveness. Just this once.
--
Malcolm

I see the wheel is spinning, but the hamster looks dead.
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The equipment I use is liberated from the capitalist system. I
spread the word to the proletariat that these things can be done
and that there is no need to submit to the capitalist oppressors
demands that we 'buy'from them what is ours in the first place.

Shay son of Che
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Is it worth to live in eternal darkness. Pity on you, you lost soul.
--
Windmills, just do it.
 
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