Sneaking Kits Into The House

[SimonR]

Okay, we're among friends here. Who will admit to sneaking kits into the house to avoid the Mrs?

I'll admit I do it. Another 1/32 Trump MiG-29K arrived at my office from eBay yesterday. The box is enormous so I couldn't put in my briefcase - prime kit smuggling accessory, it will just take a 1/32 Hasegawa Stuka. I left it in the car and waited until later that night when madame had fallen asleep in protest at being made to watch Barcelona vs. AC Milan. I was just creeping back up the drive with my naval Fulcrum when one of the dogs started going mental. Madame woke up and switched on the security lights pinning me in the middle of the drive, MiG-29K in hand, like a Colditz escapee on the wire. She just shook her head and went to bed!  

[Gary]

I keep a stash in the garage and I'm constantly flipping them about into the house and out. The confusion keeps the Dark Princess from questioning it.

My major source of purchasing is the model meetings. I take extra cash to purchase and a loosly packed box of kits to sell/swap. When I get home, the box is considerably tighter packed.  

[upnorth]

A previous girlfriend had a few issues with my modeling and procurement of additional kits.

I didn't hide every purchase from her but I'd often discard the boxes of smaller kits and stick the kits into boxes of larger kits. I find most kit manufacturers have a standard range of box sizes and there is often much more room than the contained kit needs. I would often have one or two smaller kits along side the actual kit box subject in the same box together and she never bothered looking in the boxes of my stash to realize there was more than met the eye.

As for smuggling tools, The briefcase most certainly is a godsend.

[MartG]

mail order is a godsend - the postman arrives after we've both gone to work, and I'm always first home so I can hide any deliveries before she arrives  

[Jennings]

A.  No Mrs. at the moment

B.  I've foresworn buying new kits (well, when the Zvezda 1/144 Il-86 comes out...)

C.  Even when I did have a Mrs., she helped me run the decal biz, so new kits were seen as potential creative fodder for income producing

Glad those days are over!




J

[Sentinel Chicken]

The Mrs. does the finances and bills because I think math belongs on the Axis of Evil, so she pretty much knows whatever it I'm buying.

So I go for the up front approach.

I could be obsessed about airplanes, or I could be obsessed about booze, hookers, and porn.

Airplanes ALWAYS wins.  

[The Cat a.k.a Meowbag]

It is possible to be obsessed with airplanes as well as sex, chemicals and loud music you know  

Some of us manage it rather well    

[Sisko]

Helps to have a wife work 1 saturday in 4.

No sneaking required  

[Svaz]

... pinning me in the middle of the drive, MiG-29K in hand ... She just shook her head and went to bed!

I know that dread all too well.

I usually have my covert purchases shipped to a friend's house & sneak it back in my briefcase (marvelous thing, that case) then add it to the middle of the stash in the dead of night after The Dark Mistress of the Sith has gone to bed.  B)

She manages all the bills so I don't think I could "acquire" a 1/32 Fulcrum without a great deal of planning.    

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Don't do it anymore because Caroline understands it's my hobby and my money that I spend on it..... and anyways she collects limited edition Teddy Bears and Musical Boxes and they can be bl**dy expensive !. But when I was married to the Blonde She-Devil of Old Netherton Town I will admit to any and all of the following:

1  Having mail-order stuff sent to work and/or my mums house.
2  Saying the model I had just brought-in was for a mate whose wife didn't approve (love the irony of that one).
3  Getting 'Dork' or A N Other to take it for me, then sneak it home another time.
4  Sneaking it in when I could guarantee she wasn't home.

finally

5  Just take the thing home and asking her if she would prefer me to build kits or spend the evening in the pub.

Ian

[Alvis 3.1]

*Ahem*


"Sneaking kits into the house is wrong and unfair to all, and should never be done under any circumstances."


There, now all I have to do is quote that 499 more times and my community service will be done.



Alvis 3.1

[Captain Canada]

That's hilarious, Simon....getting caught !

Amateur...

I take my stuff to work after purchase, and remove all packaging and chop up the sprues a bit to give it that 'already started' look. Then I smuggle the stuff home in my work bag, and it stays in there until the coast is clear, at which time I covertly place it in the pile. After that it's just one of the gang.....

I also double box stuff to slow the rate of pile growth.

[Nick]

So far I have none of these problems as I live with my Mum but sooner or later she's gonna wonder out loud if I have enough kits....

My wardrobe top cupboard (main stash) is tightly packed with at least 100 kits.
The top of the wardrobe houses at least 20 of the bigger kits (Airfix Hovercraft size) as well as the container with 20 more small but part-built models.
Besides me here are 11 kits waiting to be sold on Ebay and at least a dozen models on display around the rooms.

I buy something, I take straight upstairs and bury it in a pile so it looks like it's been their for some time. Mum doesn't object cos she uses my PC to sustain her old childrens books collecting habit!

Nick B)  

[elmayerle]

I can neither confirm nor deny that I've used any and/or all of the above approaches when necessary.  ^_^  

[Leigh]

I dunno whether I feel good or bad, Jonelle cares not what I spend MY hard earned money on, but I have to hide my new purchases from the kids.

There is no feeling quite as disturbing as that evoked by a dissapproving look from a teenager as if to say.....
" So who really is the kid here? and in need of parental supervision?"
and even offering her $20 not to tell her sister doesn't work either