Who take's the along wife, while shoping for tools?

Who take's the along wife, while shoping for tools?
I do Now thanks Harbor Freight!!!!
I get Harbor Freights paper in the mail and will sit at home and look at all the deals.
Then I wil say wow, I have been wanting one of these or one of those of course while the wife is around. Pretty soon I have told her about half the stuff in the paper thats on sale that I don't have yet. The funny thing is now since we are about a hour from thier stores it works even better because of the long trip we have to make.
Yesterday we made a trip in to Vegas and I needed a tarp to cover the Ranchero so we went by Harbor Freight. Now I just went to get a tarp but over the last month I have been complaining about my old 3 ton floor jack thats been leaking all over the place and the wheel bearings are gone. HE! HE! HE! do you see where I am going???
Well we get in the place and I grab a tarp and go to check out. The wife says are you sure you don't need anything else because it maybe a while before we get back in town then she starts looking around. To make a long story short I walked out with about a hundred bucks worth of stuff. I got a new 3 ton floor jack on sale for 69 bucks got some of the cool christmas tree drill bits { I call them } for 16 bucks, they are great. And my 6 doller tarp, I went in for.
I guess I'll take her along next time too!!!
I almost feel guilty of something, NOT!!! HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

wouldn't be me because I don't have an along wife, I have an around wife :p

I love my wife - but when I'm shopping for tools, there are many other places for her to be, grocery store, JC Penney, Sears, etc, etc etc, instead of standing behind me tapping her foot (in her mind, if not actually doing it) and thinking that I'm spending w-a-a-a-y too much for a tool that I might use only 3 or 400 times:eek:

vara4....My wife will buy me tools all the time she says "if it makes the job easier you should have it"... We go to the mall and she goes to JCP or somewhere I go to Sears. We meet at the tool area in Sears before you know it I have my arms full and she pops for the bill. Then we go out for lunch I'll buy that I think I'm ahead here. I love this wife

:):):):whacked::D Couple years ago Harbor Freight opened up 4 miles from me. One Saturday morning she drug me with her to some store and I followed her around for a couple hours.On the way home we where going right past Harbor frieght and I needed some cutoff wheels or welding wire or whatever,so we stopped in. Well after about 2 hours I pretty much got drug out of there by the ears. Needless to say she ain't never and will never go back there .:3dSMILE:;):D And since then I never got invited to go shopping with her.:LOL::LOL::LOL:

My poor wife would have a heart attack if she really knew what I spend on tools......:eek:

David

In Canada,our equivalent to Harbour Freight is Princess Auto Supply, and my wife loves going there with me....as long as I push the cart. Brian

There's some funny stories there about shopping with the wives.
I think Cffisher has the kind I like though. HE! HE!
You had better be careful Fisher someone might offer to buy her from you!!!
Kurt

Isn't that kind of like going fishing with the game warden????

HE! HE! HE! Fishing huh!! Dave this might help you!!!
Watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdEAbXshOpY
Kurt

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Originally Posted by vara4

There's some funny stories there about shopping with the wives.
I think Cffisher has the kind I like though. HE! HE!
You had better be careful Fisher someone might offer to buy her from you!!!
Kurt

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I aint gettin rid of this one. Whats realy cool if I need a hand in the shop she's right there. I restored a Vett once and forgot to put the letters on the back... My hands would not fit. Sweetie to the rescue she put them in with out a bit of trouble.. I even taught her to weld and use the plasma cutter.

Sounds like she's a keeper!!!

Not me. My Bride thinks pliers are for plieing, and hammers are for hamming, and wrenches are thingies that don't do as many things as pliers, and it takes a lot of them to do it. She doesn't understand what any of my tools do, but is not impressed when I do something with them, and if she thinks I don't use them often enough, she gets after me to get rid of them - "you haven't used that thingie in a long time; why do you keep it around? It just takes up space.". Or: "just how many saws do you need?" On the other hand, she really doesn't bellyache too much when I do buy something; maybe just a snide remark, and it goes by the board.

i dont have that problem. :3dSMILE: but my hubby will kick up a stink when he finds out how much i pay for tools.

Take the wife with me when shopping for tools.... In a word... WHY???? :eek:

Got a great wife, had some harbor freight air tools once. The only comment was they were loud, they were also under powered. I used them until they wore out, they had a short life. So upgraded to some ingsol stuff, now I have power and less noise.

Never have a problem with money spent on tools or hotrods with her. She likes all the stuff I can fix. She's the fixer's wife and some of the stuff I do rubs off on her, a great back up to have when I am on the road.

Ha ha I like Barbs. By the time Jayden is 16 I figure she'll pick up my interests and be wrenching as good as any fella. She's almost 6 and already carrying off my tools. :CRY: caught her disassembling her baby buggy not long ago. :LOL:

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Ha ha I like Barbs. By the time Jayden is 16 I figure she'll pick up my interests and be wrenching as good as any fella. She's almost 6 and already carrying off my tools. :CRY: caught her disassembling her baby buggy not long ago. :LOL:

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Now if she was taking the wheels off your lawnmower or wagon to "customize" the baby buggy, she's really gonna' give the guys a run for their money!!;)

My dear wife, when she was alive, didn't care much for shopping for tools with me, but if I put something on a Christmas or birthday list she would, more often than not, buy it for me as long as I put a good description of what i wanted. I found that pictures, prices and what store was invaluable. I can thank her for many wrenches, sockets, a chest or two, and a lot of odd ball stuff she bought for me over the years. She was a peach and she wasn't from Georgia, but it would have been fine if she had of been.

My wife and I are fine when it comes to tools. I thought I'd get a earfull a couple of weeks ago when I bought the electric sewer snake from H.F. but she was just happy it was something I could fix, and understood it will be needed again and will pay for itself down the line. And it did last week when the drain plugged again! (First lesson in snaking, once drain drains and appears AOK, keep going another 10-20 feet, because there is probably a secondary blockage down the line!).
I give her a hard time jokingly about clothes, shoes and nicknacks, but when it comes to tools, I've told her to go for it for a quality sewing machine, surger, steam cleaner and other stuff she's wanted, and she pretty much supports me the same!

HE! HE! HE! My wife just came in and gave me the new Harbor Freight paper.
She told me we could have got my new floor jack 5 bucks cheaper this month then she said I am going to get my 5 bucks back.
She says look over the paper, I said for what? She said to make sure I don't want anything else since we gotta go back anyway.
God I really love my wife!!!!
Kurt

And I bet she get the$$$$$ back too. I know my wife would

Yep she always does, and if she does not like the cashier's opinion she has no problem chasing down managers till she get what she wants.
I think they give stuff to her, just to get her out of the store some times.
HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

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Originally Posted by vara4

HE! HE! HE! My wife just came in and gave me the new Harbor Freight paper.
She told me we could have got my new floor jack 5 bucks cheaper this month then she said I am going to get my 5 bucks back.
She says look over the paper, I said for what? She said to make sure I don't want anything else since we gotta go back anyway.
God I really love my wife!!!!
Kurt

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So how far do you have to drive for that $5'er, Kurt??

Too far, But I have to go back to town with my trailer anyway to get some steel.
Then a trip to sam's club, Comp USA, Joann's fabric's, then try to find a Hydraulic place to get some seal's for
my old floor jack. We try to make the most out of our trips to town. Probably to the Vet's to so we can get
the new Boxer puppy's dew claws and tail's docked. Our female Boxer went in to labor this morning.
So just a few things to do when we get to town. There won't be enough time to stop by my brothers for a visit.
Kurt

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Originally Posted by vara4

Too far, But I have to go back to town with my trailer anyway to get some steel.
Then a trip to sam's club, Comp USA, Joann's fabric's, then try to find a Hydraulic place to get some seal's for
my old floor jack. We try to make the most out of our trips to town. Probably to the Vet's to so we can get
the new Boxer puppy's dew claws and tail's docked. Our female Boxer went in to labor this morning.
So just a few things to do when we get to town. There won't be enough time to stop by my brothers for a visit.
Kurt

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More puppies?? That's cool. I understand making the most of the trip - I'm only about eight or ten miles out, and it's still a hassle to run in for a small, single need.

We are talking about wives buying tools for us last Christmas my wife wanted a wood lathe. She now has one out in the car garage first thing I showed her how to make was a ball. IT 'turned' out realy nice..

Cffisher:
I am actually about 8 miles west of Pahrump or the main drag where all the stores are.
Las Vegas is a little over a hour east of me. Pahrump does not have alot of stuff and
what they do have out here is very expensive in stores.
They know they got you by what you wife made on her Lathe.
HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

I like my like to shop for tools with me because she, like other wives here, will pop for the bill.:) She figures the more tools I have the more things I can fix around the house.

Jack.

Or the more time were out in the shop leaving them alone to do there thing :LOL::LOL::LOL: