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So there I am on Wednesday night idly scanning the Forge World website for a new project, when I happen across those glorious Space Marine decal transfer sheets. What a great opportunity to start a Raven Guard army I think to myself. But wait, Mrs Flashman is keen on saving money at the moment and has not unreasonably cited all the unfinished Warhammer projects slowly growing in volume in the spare room. Hah, but she'll never notice a sheet of Raven Guard decals being delivered surely, because it will arrive in an innocuous looking brown envelope.

The perfect crime, Click to buy.

Saturday morning and a delivery man arrives at the door. Mrs Flashman answers and signs for a large box addressed to me.

"What new Warhammer stuff have you ordered?" she says accusingly
"Nothing," I say looking at the box confused.
"Are you sure?"
"Erm... well kind of," I reply, already cracking under the intense interrogation, "Well maybe, but it's nothing that big."
"Let's see shall we?" The box is presented for the guilty party to open.

It is empty...

....except for an innocuous looking brown envelope.

I'm lucky. Mine's a recently graduated law student studying for the bar exam. I could drive a full size Leman Russ through our apartment and the only notice she'd take would be to tell me to keep it down.

Upon seeing the brown envelope, you should've said "Ah! My IMF mission orders have arrived. I have to go read this in private and quickly else it will self destruct. To my gaming den/the WC!" then snatched up said envelope and ran off for the appropriate room while humming the Mission Impossible theme.

Laughter, it is said, defuses even the mightiest temper.

ryzouken wrote:Laughter, it is said, defuses even the mightiest temper.

You haven't met Mrs Flashman

lol, she's that not bad really and is just as guilty when it comes to ordering stuff off the internet. Wanted to buy a pushchair for Flashman Jnr today. We've already got two!

You really don't want the transfer sheets arriving in an envelope marked "DO NOT BEND".

The first thing mail couriers that I've had experience with do is bend it as much as they can. I had ordered some transfer sheets awhile back for a German tank kit my dad is working on, really nice transfers the same size as the Raven Guard ones(which are ace quite frankly), and they arrived in an envelope marked "Do not Bend, sensitive material".

Mail courier, of course, bends it to fit inside the mailbox.

Order to your FLGS. If they have it in stock or can get it quickly, buy from them because supporting local businesses is awesome!

Mine has a system set up where they place a FW order every other week or so, allowing multiple people to place an order and even get a slight discount for being vendors and bulk shipping.

-cgmckenzie

Have it delivered to your work

Take out a P.O. Box!

Hire a courier to take the package from the vendor to a dead drop location!

Stealth field envelope that masks the visible light spectra!

Include gaming in your budget planning with the missus to head off future unrest!

... wait... that last one wasn't sneaky at all...

Hide purchases in Dorothy Perkins bags, she'll be so revealed that you are not a transvestite, she'll never complain about warhammer again.

Kanluwen wrote:You really don't want the transfer sheets arriving in an envelope marked "DO NOT BEND".

The first thing mail couriers that I've had experience with do is bend it as much as they can. I had ordered some transfer sheets awhile back for a German tank kit my dad is working on, really nice transfers the same size as the Raven Guard ones(which are ace quite frankly), and they arrived in an envelope marked "Do not Bend, sensitive material".

Mail courier, of course, bends it to fit inside the mailbox.

That seems a common problem in the USA. I sent my brother in Eugene, Oregon, an antique map of Oregon for Christmas. It was packed in a cardboard tube, marked Do Not Bend, as recommended by the Post Office for sending rolled documents.

You can guess the rest.

How do you bend a cardboard tube with an item inside?

That puzzles me. I'll have to try.

One almost suspects malice, but I think stupidity and carelessness is the reason.

You get to order stuff before your missus catches on? You lucky bastard.

My missus seems to be convenietly stood behind me when I'm looking at my watch list. She's like a friggin wraith.


I do order a metric tonne of stuff from eBay/Amazon (Remembers a comic he'd quite like to grab and checks to see if the wraith is around) and she likes to make sure I don't spend every single one of my pennies on toy soldiers. Although I suspect this is due to her wanting me to buy her more shoes rather than for my own financial good.

When I worked at GW, I had a dentist call me up, have his stuff sent to his office, and told me to never call his house about his orders etc......

Ugh the Ravenguard decals are too small.....I was really disappointed. I'm glad I spent the money on a laser printer now...

Have it delivered to work.

That's how I used to get around it.

Now the present missus paints and plays as much as I do, so its no biggie.

Kanluwen wrote:they arrived in an envelope marked "Do not Bend, sensitive material".

Mail courier, of course, bends it to fit inside the mailbox.

That varies a lot depending on your mailman. Ive had some who were great with things. However, my current guy is bound and determined to not get out of his truck unless its on fire, and will use all his might to jam things into the mailbox rather than walk the 30-40 feet to the front porch.


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Kilkrazy wrote:One almost suspects malice, but I think stupidity and carelessness is the reason.

Like I said ^^^ its laziness, they dont want to get off their duff and walk to the house.

Necros wrote:Have it delivered to your work

That doesn't work for me... My wife's desk is about 12 feet away from mine...



In all seriousness, I would actually say that trying to hide your purchases is setting up the potential to create far more hassle than it's worth...

Flashman you must rise up and take the means of production from the bourgeoisie and back into your own hands comrade!

marielle wrote:Hide purchases in Dorothy Perkins bags, she'll be so revealed that you are not a transvestite, she'll never complain about warhammer again.

Hmmm, is it bad that I am tempted by this piece of genius on a number of levels?

And on that subject, I just man up and buy the hell I like, her complaints be dammed. I did it today £120 on FoW and a Baneblade that I don't even need - BANG, easy as pie!

The fact that I waited until she was in the next county and on the way to her Nan's for a few days is neither here nor there.

Now how to intercept the credit card bill before she see it? Mugging the postman every day for month won't be that hard/serious will it?

notprop wrote:

marielle wrote:Hide purchases in Dorothy Perkins bags, she'll be so revealed that you are not a transvestite, she'll never complain about warhammer again.

Hmmm, is it bad that I am tempted by this piece of genius on a number of levels?

And on that subject, I just man up and buy the hell I like, her complaints be dammed. I did it today £120 on FoW and a Baneblade that I don't even need - BANG, easy as pie!

The fact that I waited until she was in the next county and on the way to her Nan's for a few days is neither here nor there.

Now how to intercept the credit card bill before she see it? Mugging the postman every day for month won't be that hard/serious will it?

Online billing my friend... Hides all sorts of sins, helpfully including gift buying as a usefull cover story.

As thay say, however, fogivness is easyer to get than permission. Thats how my wife justified spending £2k more than we agreed on her last bike (she came home and said "i spent £xk. The sales guy said i should tell you forgiveness is easyer...")

Sounds abit technical and I already have the cricket bat.

Kirasu wrote:Flashman you must rise up and take the means of production from the bourgeoisie and back into your own hands comrade!

I try Kirasu. Today, I almost managed to put my foot down about the third pushchair, but then she went into sulk mode. On the plus side, it meant an uneasy peace was brokered. She got to spend the evening scouring the internet for pushchairs and I got to start my Raven Guard army, albeit with snarky comments along the lines of "I bet you don't finish them" emanating from behind the laptop.

Flashman wrote: I got to start my Raven Guard army, albeit with snarky comments along the lines of "I bet you don't finish them" emanating from behind the laptop.

I am so, so glad my wife doesn't know enough about the specifics of my hobby to make comments like that. If she only knew.

Here is a class our FLGS is going to put on

http://www.amorousarmadillo.com/aaf/index.php?topic=1208.0

Its worth a laugh The Guide for the Married Gamer.

Me and my missus don't live together yet, nor are we married so at this point in time she actually tells me to buy stuff. I am sure this will change though once we are living together and have to buy this stuff called food?

Seriously though she is great.

ME -"Dana, not sure whether to get this new army or not"

Dana -"Just buy it Dan"

:-D

Im lucky on three counts

1) my girlfriend takes almost no interest in my "toy soldiers"

2) she's in the RAF so only home weekends

3) She bought a dead cow rug for 90 bloody quid on friday so I can bring that up every time she questions me on how much i spend on i quote "stuff you dont really need" dead animal furniture anyone?

gr1m_dan wrote:Me and my missus don't live together yet, nor are we married so at this point in time she actually tells me to buy stuff. I am sure this will change though once we are living together and have to buy this stuff called food?

Seriously though she is great.

ME -"Dana, not sure whether to get this new army or not"

Dana -"Just buy it Dan"

:-D

Funny my wife just tells me: "if you're going to paint it, then you can buy it." She's a loving wife who lets me spend whatever I need to on my hobby. Since I've got so much stuff she gave me a room to store it in as well. Now that I have most of what I need, my purchasing has decreased significantly. Its funny as our store started carrying Battle Foam and the first words out of her mouth were - you can store how much in that bag? How many do you need? I'll buy one for you if you promise to organize the office and put your stuff in it. I got home and loaded the case up and the next statement she said shocked me - I think you may need to get more of their foam trays to hold your toy soldiers because they don't fit in this tray. If you need another one, let me know I can swing by and pick another one up for you.

We have worked out tournaments ect as follows: I add my gaming time to the calendar about a month out and she adds all of her time to the calendar as well. She has the power to veto it up to 2 weeks out for any special events that she wants to do as a family (near the date for an emergency - sick kids, nobody to watch the kids, family, etc.) I average 1-2 weekends a month and it saves us from any arguments we could have as she knows that I've spent thousands of dollars over 15+ years on the stuff and using it just as much fun as painting it.

Unfortunately (or fortunately however you want to look at it) for me I bought a bunch of stuff from a friend and now I've got 3 land raiders, a lizardmen army ~ 3000 points before characters, and 60 space wolves (both termies and PA) to get through before I can realistically buy more stuff. Otherwise it will sit unbuilt in a box for several months while I get through my back log.

I ordered something from Forge world about 3 months ago and it came in the mail normally and she found the package. She came up to me with a sour tone "If you were ordering something from forgeworld, why didn't you tell me so I could order some Dark Eldar stuff? Sadface."

I don't think I'll ever regret being married to such a lovely nerd. <3

She'll be even more of a sadface when she realizes FW doesnt make anything good for DE

boyd wrote:

gr1m_dan wrote:Me and my missus don't live together yet, nor are we married so at this point in time she actually tells me to buy stuff. I am sure this will change though once we are living together and have to buy this stuff called food?

Seriously though she is great.

ME -"Dana, not sure whether to get this new army or not"

Dana -"Just buy it Dan"

:-D

Funny my wife just tells me: "if you're going to paint it, then you can buy it." She's a loving wife who lets me spend whatever I need to on my hobby. Since I've got so much stuff she gave me a room to store it in as well. Now that I have most of what I need, my purchasing has decreased significantly. Its funny as our store started carrying Battle Foam and the first words out of her mouth were - you can store how much in that bag? How many do you need? I'll buy one for you if you promise to organize the office and put your stuff in it. I got home and loaded the case up and the next statement she said shocked me - I think you may need to get more of their foam trays to hold your toy soldiers because they don't fit in this tray. If you need another one, let me know I can swing by and pick another one up for you.

We have worked out tournaments ect as follows: I add my gaming time to the calendar about a month out and she adds all of her time to the calendar as well. She has the power to veto it up to 2 weeks out for any special events that she wants to do as a family (near the date for an emergency - sick kids, nobody to watch the kids, family, etc.) I average 1-2 weekends a month and it saves us from any arguments we could have as she knows that I've spent thousands of dollars over 15+ years on the stuff and using it just as much fun as painting it.

Unfortunately (or fortunately however you want to look at it) for me I bought a bunch of stuff from a friend and now I've got 3 land raiders, a lizardmen army ~ 3000 points before characters, and 60 space wolves (both termies and PA) to get through before I can realistically buy more stuff. Otherwise it will sit unbuilt in a box for several months while I get through my back log.

This is how it works in my house too.

Flashman, get it delivered to work

Tell your wife this

"Listen, woman.. I am the man of the house and I will buy whatever i want when I want. If I need models then they are mine.. Case closed, no argument..Also when you kill me please send all my models to Kirasu from dakkdakka"