I’m finding it harder and harder to tell my wife that I’m buying a new watch. After about 4 watches, she can’t understand why I would buy more. I’m curious as to smartest or most interesting way that someone has used to get around this issue.
I’m finding it harder and harder to tell my wife that I’m buying a new watch. After about 4 watches, she can’t understand why I would buy more. I’m curious as to smartest or most interesting way that someone has used to get around this issue.
When I first started trying to grow my collection, maybe 4-5 years back I was a bit embarrassed to admit to my wife that I wanted to spend some of my newly found pay rise on more watches, so I bought a cheap one (think it was about £90) and showed her. Explained as best I could that I loved watches, but would never spend any of the house money on them, it would only ever be ‘spare’ money. (No idea what that is anymore like….)
I found then that being upfront about it all meant she was happy I wouldn’t bankrupt us, and I was happy that I could continue with my obsession. She knows that I would sell a watch to fund something if/when needed also and not do anything daft.
She’s now part of the hobby albeit in a smaller way than myself, and even took me to a boutique in Sorrento earlier this year to try on a Monaco I’d been mumbling about wanting. (I bottled out of the purchase though!!)