How to keep peace in the saltwater household.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Lance

This one goes hand-in-hand with #10. Never, ever, EVER keep the receipts from your purchases anywhere they can be found. I keep all my receipts in what I thought was a safe place. Uh, uh she found them. Uh-oh!

LOL you keep receipts?? Dude thats just asking for them to be found. If I'm at the LFS with my hubby when they go to tell me the total and he's not directly nearby (ie. looking at the total on the register) I just put my finger to my lips and quietly pass them my credit card

[Dez]

Originally Posted by Leah

When you start giving away the furniture so that you have room for one more
tank.

In our 600 sq/ft living space we already had a 150 gallon, a 46 gallon, a 7 gallon and then we sold our piano (that was given to us by my parents) and put a 180 gallon in place of the piano. We had the piano movers move the tank in place.

[Leah]

I have had tanks running on the kitchen counter even, maybe thats why friends won't stay for dinner. Only have 5 running at the moment thinking I could squeeze in a few more, he he! My daughter thinks I am nuts

[Boomboy]

my wife is coming around took her a while, but eventually she is like, just spend the money and get it set up already.

[Boomboy]

Originally Posted by Trigger Man

If your convincing works with the hubby can you convince my fiance that it is not weird to have fish stores on the wedding registry?

thats so funny because my wife even suggested i put it on for our registry. but i said no its ok we can get stuff that we both like. i should have taken her up on the offer.

[Lydia]

I waited till HE got a Harley - I got my first SW tank about a year later, and called it "My Harley". Now when parts for the Harley come in the mail I say "oh, looks like I"m going to the LFS this weekend", and he just smiles

[dsaundry]

If this is like the ten commandments then forgive me, I have sinned.....

[BlueAbyss]

Originally Posted by karazy

you have to do things like:

start by asking for lets say, a 20 gallon, and then either come home with something bigger, or just say it fits in the space better.

or, you do the ol' switcheroo.while the parents are out, you hide the 5 gallon and go get a 10 gallon, they wont notice :P

LOL, yeah did that years ago... was supposed to be a 10 gallon and ended up being a 20, actually the same 20 I'll be using when I finally get past the planning / stand building phase of my tank

And thank god I'm single, my significant other would think I'm crazy

[wolf_bluejay]

As I couldn't possible get away with hiding the money I spent -- and my wife is CHEAP, I quite smoking. But of course, I negotiated first.

That what you would spend on smoking, add it up, and them pull this -- "Hunny, if I quite smoking can I take half of the money each month and spend it on the tank" Cheapo wife (please don't let her read this) will always see that you end up in the plus and I get about $200-300 a month on top of what i WAS spending on the tank

lots of other options to clean up more money for frags/equipment -- stop getting a coffee form tim's every morning and make my own coffee before I head out, etc.

I've ended up now with about $500 a month set aside for my tank. Of course, I don't smoke, drink, eat out much, or generally do anything else that is fun anymore

[Frenchie]

My wife is not super imperessed with the money I spend on my tank. She started out supportive but about a hundred large purchases later her support has started to run dry.

We've come to a compromise now. We decided on a certain amount of money I can spend every month on the tank, and if I don't use it all it rolls into the next month. This works pretty good as theres no more supprises for her on our credit card.

Im pretty lucky to have a wife that is understanding enough to deal with the cost of a 220 gallon tank. And deal with all the fish talk!