..too much stash???

In message , Aud writes

Hee hee! I thought that was really funny, but my husband might think it's too close to the truth to be humorous.

There is truth in humor, one's stash can never be too much. DA

My husband would agree with your husband. He's recently told me I can't buy any more yarn til I use what I have, though that never stops me from buying new yarn (even though I probably have enough to keep me knitting and crochetting for a year straight without running out :)

Hi Aud,

No, you never have too much stash. My DH has started giving me a yarn allowance to use every month to buy more yarn and I make sure I do that too.

Hugs,

Nora

OMG, I *hope* you're kidding! The day Don or I *allowed* or *disallowed* purchases would be a cold day in hell. JM2C Noreen .... imagining telling Don he can't buy tools... snort! .... imagining Don telling me I can't buy yarn, or needles, etc. spewwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

Hi Noreen,

Nope, he said I deserve money, not my own, to buy yarn for the afghans that I do for charity.

Hugs,

Nora

I thought you meant this Nora...made me wonder for a minute though, then I remembered you telling me that your DH said he would like to buy any extra stash for the charity afghans you do, thus being his way of participating in it as well....it's nice to see him supporting you in this way...he puts out of his own purse, what you need and you do it. Keeping a seperate allowance for this is a great idea, especially when it doesn't interfere with other housekeeping bills and money that you might like to spend on yourself or rellies.....Three Cheers for Tom, we thank you but not him...so Thankyou Tom

Cheers...Cher

Hi, again, Nora. To each their own, I guess! Noreen

Hi, Cher... I guess the idea of his and hers money is foreign to me. What's ours is ours in our household... never mattered who earned what.... Noreen dropping it.

Hey! Who took pictures of my house?? Marie and the cats

Aud wrote:

Well now that is funny, Aud.

In my family it is Otto who gets me in trouble that way with his iron shavings from turning things in his basement, at the time we still lived in Toronto, in a wee tiny house. We shared our tiny basment, washing machine and sink on one side and workshop on the other side. Many a time I would find little bits of fine steel and aluminium shavings in my underpatns.....LOL

Els

Hi Noreen, you say you are dropping the subject, but have returned to my post, so I must reply....

I don't believe it is a case of his and hers, Men don't use as much money as women do, so Nora's DH likes to think that he's bought the charity extra's even though it has still come out of the one original ''pot'', and also it makes sure that Nora can buy stuff for others without her feeling that teeny bit guilty about taking more than her fair share, especially as it isn't going on her, but other people, and it's not like it is a one off here and there like the rest of us who send her the odd item or so, but most of the time, infact every week she is buying out of their shared ''pot'' for someone else, stamps and postage and packing plus the extra yarns is quite alot extra to take out each week....alot of men wouldn't like that really, so for her DH to say spend so much on your charity stuff a week is also his way of giving his blessing for their money to be used on other people.

So what infact has happened is, so much of the money is used for their household bills, then out of what is left, so much aweek has been thought about for the extra charity stuff, then what's left is theirs to use on themselves, as and when they feel like it. It also has an underlying element too, it ensures that Nora doesn't spend too much every week on the rest of us. I think it a good idea, she doesn't go over this budget, her dh knows where the money goes, of which he has that right to know, and she isn't just drawing out all the time on us lot.. Some women just take take take, without any consideration as to what is left for DH to spend, taking as and when you want to for yourself is one thing Noreen, but taking out all the time for other families is entirely different. Doing this all the time as Nora does, I know for a fact I'd have to budget for it as well. So guess I'm looking at it from a different angle...

Nora and her DH have obviously talked about what it costs her per week or per month to do her charity stuff, which she likes to do, because that is her nature to think all the time of others, and so her DH has come up with ..''use so much a week for this Nora, and then it'll be from both of us..'' Cos when you think about it, we may or may not send her the odd couple of squares, but their family income is being used every week, to buy extra yarn to edge it all and sew it all up, and then there are the cards to go with it, the paper and puffy bags and sticky tape (she must use a yard of that a week on it's own) to say nothing of the cost of the postage for very often quite large parcels. So I'm looking at it from the family budget side of it, and what it must cost them out of their own pockets to do this...

Cheers...Cher

ROTFL!!! THat is too funny, Aud!

Katherine

LOL Another chuckle this morning!

Katherine

...and what to do with too much stash....................

good grief Els....lol...Good job it's not in your Bra's, or it'd give a whole new meaning to tinned milk....rofl.....mind you I've a mechnical engineer this way and get much the same bits left about....never found any in my underpants though.....plenty of nuts and bolts and some stick of hard chalk stuff that he writes on steel with...in the washer caught in the gasket by the front loading door......if he breaks it he can mend it...lol I love finding money though and pocket it as obviously it's a 'tip' for me.. cheers....Cher

FYI, I don't want to argue. Don and I both donate to many charities in different ways AND together. It all comes from one pot, doesn't matter who earned what where. FYI, also, not that I'm looking for a pat on the back, but I have (when money wasn't as tight) given Nora $10.00 here and $5.00 there to assist her in the postage of the comfortaghans for the group. Did that come from MY earnings? Did it come from DON's earnings? Just my 2 cents. Noreen

Addendum: I personally disagree about women/wives who take and take. I've seen more men (no offense meant to guys on this list) who blow their entire paycheck in bars or lotteries, etc. My final two cents on the subject. Noreen'