Explaining it to your wife

ADB-Ia · Apr 10, 2019

Just wondering - What tractor purchase was the hardest to explain to your wife? Mine was the day I went home from John Deere Day at the local store and told my wife I had just bought a new 8285. My wife and I talk openly about finances, she has never really bucked any purchase I've made, and I thought I had dropped enough hints along the way that it wouldn't be a surprise. I was wrong. She wasn't really mad but she did tell me that she thought I should talk to her before I spent a quarter million of OUR money. Yeah, probably so. The next hardest was spending $900 on a SC Case. Go figure!

Phil9N3667 · Apr 10, 2019

Wife and I have a 50/50 agreement on OUR money. I make it, she spends it. It's worked well for years and we've never had any disagreement big enough to get blowed up over. I'm a little bit too tight myself in all honesty and won't spend for something new as opposed to fixing something/making do with it!!

john in la · Apr 10, 2019

I do not have this problem.

Usually when making a purchase over a couple hundred dollars I am the one to hem haw around looking for a better deal to the point my wife says just go buy the deal you got so I can stop hearing about it.

Northvale PA · Apr 10, 2019

I keep the part time farm finances separate from the household finances. Farm expenses come out of farm revenue or nothing gets bought. I discuss all big purchases way up front. Mostly because that?s what I would want toward me and also just to get a second opinion. It took me 5 years to save for a pole barn, for example. And I talked about it way out in front. Because it was a big purchase, my wife helped out with the comparison shopping. I made this rule for myself and I like it big time. It forces me to be frugal, creative, enterprising and an open book.

Billy Shafer · Apr 10, 2019

Sounds like the deal I had with my wife. I made the money. She took care of spending it.

Sprint 6 · Apr 10, 2019

Keep a secret squirrel fund, deal in cash, no 'splaining necessary.

paul · Apr 10, 2019

I have a cabbed 7700 Ford from long ago.

Went to an action and bought a Ford 5200 on the spur of the moment, $5400 I think.

Drove it home the 50 miles left my pickup at the auction.

Parked the tractor where my pickup often sits in the yard.

Wife got off work, finds me on the farm and asks me why I took the cab off the tractor?

That was kinda funny, she thought it was the 7700 without a cab.

I have a Gleaner combine disease, I?ve brought too many home, and they never leave. She does question me on that, and perhaps rightly so..... F, F2, F2, F3, M3, and L3 all sitting around here, 2 of them run and 2 should run, 2 are wore out.

Paul

big tee · Apr 10, 2019

WHAT--She was mad?? Don't tell me she wanted one of those other off color ones instead!!---Tee

tomstractorsandtoys · Apr 10, 2019

Was at a sale six hours from home and called the wife and asked "What was the dumbest thing I could have done?" she replied bought another tractor. I had just bought a Deere 5010 not that we needed it. Buying two combines off Ebay the same day took a little explaining especially when trucking was more than the combines. Tom

ADB-Ia · Apr 10, 2019

No, it's her side of the family that is all green - John Deere green that is. I was raised on Oliver green. I started farming the year her grandpa retired and I bought his whole line of machinery on contract. He always said everything on the farm was a Deere except his wife and she was a dear. Now that is my line. The thing is, Crystal thinks maybe a little more green should stay in the wallet instead of the machine shed.

ADB-Ia · Apr 10, 2019

For my hobby tractors, we practice "don't ask - don't tell." That has worked fine so far.

ADB-Ia · Apr 10, 2019

Grandpa used to say, "The way to avoid a misunderstanding is to have an understanding." Good advice.

grandpa Love · Apr 10, 2019

John, that's about how it works for me and my wife. She gets tired of hearing about it and tells me to go get it! Of course, deep down inside,she likes getting a " new" tractor too!!!

john in la · Apr 10, 2019

That is how I got my boat.

Went to a boat show and when I got home she ask did I buy a boat. Told her no. She said you got 2 weeks to get one. If not I will buy it. I am tired of hearing about I want a boat.

DPittman · Apr 10, 2019

Explaining? What's that?

Southern Ray · Apr 10, 2019

One of my cousins wanted to buy a simple utility tractor for odd jobs around the farm. He was thinking open cab with ROPs.
His wife insisted a closed cab. He later reported that was the smart suggestion. He has run over two bee nests mowing grass.

44 massey · Apr 10, 2019

Down side to retirement especially if wife is still working, it?s no longer our money or our decisions!!!!!

Eldon (WA) · Apr 10, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:41:55 04/10/19) Just wondering - What tractor purchase was the hardest to explain to your wife? Mine was the day I went home from John Deere Day at the local store and told my wife I had just bought a new 8285. My wife and I talk openly about finances, she has never really bucked any purchase I've made, and I thought I had dropped enough hints along the way that it wouldn't be a surprise. I was wrong. She wasn't really mad but she did tell me that she thought I should talk to her before I spent a quarter million of OUR money. Yeah, probably so. The next hardest was spending $900 on a SC Case. Go figure!

I told my wife there was a nice JD for 36 and that I was going to call on it...I bought it, then she found out it was 36k, not 3600....wasn't too happy till I sold it for 43k a couple months later....

urbancase · Apr 10, 2019

I have that problem with having more tractors than I need, but my wife quit working to be grandma so the second last tractor I picked up the wife kind of gave me a look and I told her it the grandsons when he big enough to use it. the other thing is stay with the same color and do not parked them all in the same place at the same time, wife thinks I have around 6 and i have 15 of them.

ss55 · Apr 12, 2019

Well...another perspective is if she spent $900 on furniture without consulting you, you might be annoyed, but it's a small amount. But, if she spent $250,000 would you expect to be consulted before she signed on the dotted line?

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