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

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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

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

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

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 . And since then I never got invited to go shopping with her.

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

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

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

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. 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????