Do you have a secret racing fund she doesn't know about?

[BAILEIGH INC]

.......or are you lucky enough to have her support?

[Draginutz]

A little of both

[406 Q-ship]

I found the best solution......don't get married :idea:

[Gitter Dun]

Not really secret but I definitely dont like her to know what I'm spending. She is very supportive and is even going to buy me my new Baer brakes.

[ProdigyCustoms]

A little of both

Co signed!

[nicks67camaro]

No secret fund. She is very understanding and allows a somewhat controlled budget for the car.

[cluxford]

No secret fund, but trust me I "pay" for every dollar I spend. She is supportive to a degree, but quid pro quo is an oft spoken phrase....

I believe once the Camaro is done we are buying a holiday by the beach...or so I am told....

[shmoov69]

She doesn't care what I spend because she knows how tight I really am! Lol. And I have buyers remorse for about everything I get anyway.

I know, I know.....I am a wierdo!

[Van B]

She knows about it. She calls it my "loophole" money. I always have a loophole on how to put more money in it. She is very understanding since she quit working to stay home with our daughter and we are not starving, and I still get to play with cars. When and if something were to change, she would lose her sense of humor about it.

[mpozzi]

For your first question ... of course!!

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

[turbo kid]

She makes more than I do and I still have my stash fund she knows about but not what's in it.

[ArtosDracon]

I have my own savings account that gets bi-monthly contributions, she knows how much goes in, roughly, but not how much comes out, or where it goes.

[Tiger]

No secret fund here but ofcourse I'm not making any publicity about how much I spend either.

[pimtina]

Secret stash for me!

[PRRC]

Amen Brother!!


I found the best solution......don't get married :idea:

[rickk]

work more have more.
rick k:idea:

[JEFFTATE]

No secret account here ..
My wife and I share the expenses.
We have a joint bank acccount.
She helps me with my car hobby.
I help her with her horse hobby..

[Ron.in.SoCal]

I implemented a 'don't ask, don't tell' gag order after our first rumble. As long as we don't go under and I provide a little hush fund girft now and then we're able to maintain a fragile peace!

[justasquid]

Do you have a secret racing fund she doesn't know about?

Anyone else get the feeling Mrs Baileigh got ahold of Mr. Baileigh's username and password?

[mc84_zz4]

No secret fund here but of course I'm not making any publicity about how much I spend either.
^^x2 I agree, mine is not 'secret' fund, I consider more of a 'covert' fund...

[toxicz28]

If I admitted to having a secret fund, it wouldn't be a secret anymore.
So, I'll have to invoke my rights under the fifth ammendment of the Constitution.

[BonzoHansen]

Don't ask don't tell. https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2010/05/shifty-1.gif

[AintQik]

HA! Funny post. After a very high maintenence 1st wife and many high maintenence girlfriends my new line when I met a girl was, "Look, I'm always going to be broke because I spend a lot of money on my car, I'm kind of a jerk when I'm grumpy and quite frequently when we go to a nice place to eat there will be grease and paint I just can't get out of my nails". The girl that accepted that I married.

She says as long as we all can eat, I can build cars. Unfortunately the thing that defines me costs money.

[Jim Nilsen]

No secret account here ..
My wife and I share the expenses.
We have a joint bank acccount.
She helps me with my car hobby.
I help her with her horse hobby..

I see that you convinced her that a horse is a horse and you should have at least 500 or more if she is going to have some of her own.lol.

I had a guy who has horses tell me I was wasting my money on my car and it would never be worth anything I have in it. I told him that after many years I will have spent $2000 each one of them and after 20 years I would have a new car for my money and all he would have is a dead horse.

Thought you might be a ble to use it someday when she tells you how much $$ you waste on your cars if she ever gets the incling to do so. She sounds like a great woman and she let you buy a C5.

[OLDFLM]

Not any more... LOL

[Jim Nilsen]

If you can't get your wife to support your hobby you are already in trouble, if she is indifferent and doesn't care you are lucky.

Now if your wife buys you parts you are extremely lucky.

Never have an argument over the money you spend on your car as life insurance can make you the loser,LOL

I spend what I spend and if the car can't be sold to pay the debt you have done something really wrong with priorities. Now if you can sell your wife to pay the debt........... Not going there now!!!

The real truth is that I don't even know how much I have spent on my car these days. I think I know but so many little items in 19 years could add up to thousands and you wouldn't know it.

I will let you know when the limit has been reached and hopefully it never will be.

[tstarx]

my wife is confusing. She wants me to finish the car, yet doesn't says i spend to much time on it. Then she wants it real nice but doesn't want me to spend the money. LOL Women go figure

[Jim Nilsen]

my wife is confusing. She wants me to finish the car, yet doesn't says i spend to much time on it. Then she wants it real nice but doesn't want me to spend the money. LOL Women go figure

She sounds like she wants it all just like most women, just when you are supposed to do the one thing they want the other,lol.

[tony byram]

Maybe........

[CRead01]

we have a don't ask don't tell policy.

She is pretty supportive though.

[brans72]

Can I plede the 5th here?

[toxicz28]

Can I plede the 5th here?

Why yes, yes you can!

[Yelcamino]

No secret fund here. I manage our money and know how much I can spend on the cars. With that said, I also know how much my wife spends on furniture and decorating a house that's way too big for just the two of us so I guess it's a wash!

[tommycomfort]

I'm lucky that I can devote all my National Guard money to car projects, but the wife will kick in "family" money if needed. She would also have grease under her nail if it wasn't for medical gloves at the shop! She did sort out my electrical problems with the new wiring harness... Sometimes I think I'm just lucky, but then that's when I realize what a great catch I was for her.:1st:
Hope she doesn't read this!

[TT302Z28]

I wouldn't say it was a secret....I just prefer not to discuss it!

There is the old saying "yours, mine and ours". I get little say about the yours and the ours...mine is my business.

[dropit69]

dont get married and spend to your hearts content..working for me right now..been down the married isle once..

[Jarcaines]

Absolutely not. A "secret account" sounds like a one way ticket to divorce. I do freelance design on the side, and that is my Camaro money, and it's no secret. If there is ever anything that money can be used for that is a higher priority then the Camaro, I would have no problem using that money for something else. I might get shunned for saying this, but the car is a hobby, it's pretty low on the priority list.

Part of being married is everything is "ours".

[CRCRFT78]

Part of being married is everything is "ours".

Except MY cars. But then again I'm not married and she could care less either way.

[CreepinDeth]

Joint Account was your 1st mistake. We keep separate accounts.
I never wanted all that drama I hear about from other married guys.

My wife knows I blow alot of my excess funds on my 2 cars and 2 bikes.
She doesn't care, because my money is my own, and hers is her own.
We split the bills and everyone is happy. :)

[Humbug53]

There's a real science to it. She knows about the account, but not how much is in it. I always give the impression that the account is almost struggling. On the few occasions that we needed to tap into my hotrod account, I told her that there wasn't enough in there to do what we needed to do, so we should ask my folks. THEN (lol) I brought the cash with me to my folks' house, slipped cash to my mom, and my mother "loaned" us the money.

The cool thing is that my wife ALWAYS pays my mom back, and my mom gives it back to me to put back into MY account. I have a cool and understanding mother.

The funniest thing is that not that long ago, my mom "loaned" my wife $10,000 as a downpayment on a new car, but my wife still thinks my personal account is barely surviving.

[CRCRFT78]

There's a real science to it. She knows about the account, but not how much is in it. I always give the impression that the account is almost struggling. On the few occasions that we needed to tap into my hotrod account, I told her that there wasn't enough in there to do what we needed to do, so we should ask my folks. THEN (lol) I brought the cash with me to my folks' house, slipped cash to my mom, and my mother "loaned" us the money.

The cool thing is that my wife ALWAYS pays my mom back, and my mom gives it back to me to put back into MY account. I have a cool and understanding mother.

The funniest thing is that not that long ago, my mom "loaned" my wife $10,000 as a downpayment on a new car, but my wife still thinks my personal account is barely surviving.

You better pray she doesn't read this, lol.

[JChilders]

Joint accounts are bad news. I spend way to much money on my car, but as long as I pay the bills and she doesn't know how much I spend all is good.

[dondb]

No hidden accounts here, my wife knows all to well life is short...you should do what makes you happy as long as your not hurting anyone else. Like said in another thread, i spend what i want...but if some thing life related came up that's where the $$$'s go. Plus, i get my two kids involved and it gives her free time when we go for rides,shows and the drags.

[HectorM52]

Absolutely not. A "secret account" sounds like a one way ticket to divorce. I do freelance design on the side, and that is my Camaro money, and it's no secret. If there is ever anything that money can be used for that is a higher priority then the Camaro, I would have no problem using that money for something else. I might get shunned for saying this, but the car is a hobby, it's pretty low on the priority list.

Part of being married is everything is "ours".
I really like this logic. I have NO IDEA who Jarcaines is, but it sounds like he has a healthy marraige and has his priorities right.

For me, I have a paypal account from sales I make online. That's my play money. Though I dip into "our" money every so often, she knows that I spend responsibly, albeit not knowing where every dollar goes.

My wife stays at home with our son and we have only one account and one income (mine). That's "our" money, I could never have a separate account that she didn't know about. Just doesn't seem right.

[The Stickman]

Nope don't need to. My wife is my enabler. She let's me buy what I want as long as we can afford it. Hell she works on and welds on my cars.

[PT Sportwagon]

Well my wife does support my hobby as long as I also do work on her car. But then again I have no $$$$$ to work on the car with so.

Tim

[Humbug53]

My wife has no buyers remorse at all. My secret account is just as much a nestegg account as it is a hotrod thing. Our other 2 accounts, which she knows about, never seem to get more than $10,000 in them, cumulatively.

[ArtosDracon]

My wife has no buyers remorse at all. My secret account is just as much a nestegg account as it is a hotrod thing. Our other 2 accounts, which she knows about, never seem to get more than $10,000 in them, cumulatively.

Lol, and I get excited when my one and only account gets more than $1K in it.

[bingham72]

uh, um, yeah. It's called a credit card, which is really bad.

Really, for the most part, my wife knows what I spend on the car, which lately is nothing. However, she enjoys getting out the vette as much as I do and we've both been missing it. So I get the "OK" from time to time just to keep it running.

As others have said, as long as the lights stay on and the kids are feed, the rest is ok.

[Humbug53]

I have to agree about the credit cards. We got rid of all of ours about 6-7 years ago. Paid em' off, GONE. For those of ya that think a secret fund is bad, but have any substantial credit card debt, I don't understand the "logic". You think stashing cash away for an emergency nest-egg, and occasional responsible hotrod spending, is somehow worse than the whole credit card scenario?

[Paraman1]

My ex-wife had a secret account she was putting over 10K a year into as well as a secret credit card that she had the statements mailed to her work all the while complaining about how much I spent on my El Camino.

We had agreed that my overtime could go towards my projects, wants needs and desires and she got an allowance for hers but that's not how it worked out. Any time my girls needed money for school or sports I sold off project stuff (guns, hot rod parts, etc.) or pulled money out of my project account.

Now we are divorced and I still put my OT, tax return or any other extra cash into my project account and live off of my pay checks. I also have 2 room mates and all the "Rent" money goes into the project account. I don't believe I will ever get married again but if I do our finances will be as separate as possible with a Pre-nup in place. Yeah , I'm a little bitter about it but in the end I think it worked out for the best.

Having been on the other end of having a spouse hiding money from their other half I can tell you it sucked and was extremely disappointing to find out about. I would suggest being open with your better half about it and if she disapproves of your hobbies you should probably find a different better half.

[bob waters]

LMAO! This thread is great. I claim the 5th.

[LS1-IROC]

I got nailed with having a secret stash earlier this year. I chuckle a bit because I "think" she knew I had some cash stashed. We had a family emergency back in march (small electrical fire in our main panel). When the electrician showed up as the fire department was leaving, he said, I can get started on this right away if you can front the money until insurance kicks in. I excused myself for a minute, then came back into the room with a fist full of cash as said, "do it"! The bitch of it was, once the insurance checks came in they didn't make it back to my stash...:banghead:

[ULTM8Z]

shes ok with me enjoying the hobby as long as I keep it within reason...

though it helps that the car was pretty much restored before I got married. all the major stuff was done...so it's mainly minor mods now here and there that keeps me active with the car.

[Dimes]

She "sorta" knows about it, but definitely not the extent of it!