An Observation - What is with wives lately?

[Minicooper 35]

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WHALE HUNTING IS BANNED.....

Where are the Japanese when you need them?

[Dr. Robotnik]

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WHALE HUNTING IS BANNED.....

Where are the Japanese when you need them?

Probably taking the pictures How's that for a steroetype, I'll get my coat! Sorry all.

[SUPERDAD]

Mine has been VERY..uuhh.."manageable" lately. Several months ago she was in that "mood' you guys are talking about. After her third reference in a week about how much I was spending on this "stuff", I told her I would sell all of it off and take up one of my old hobbies again. "Help me choose,
1.working 60-80 hours a week
2.Staying out all night drinking beer and playing pool
3.Stay gone 4-6 nights a week working on a race car and gone racing every weekend.
etc.,....." No problem since

[Halgar]

Wives, you know ...

Mmm, SECKSAY!! (said in my best Fat Bastard accent)

[Tadracket]

Tad, now they have a cartridge the hooks to the PC via USB...I will probably have to pick that up soon. With "design" software I will have to master and then attept to teach her.

Reheheheheheally??? They had to do something. 2 of the rival manufacturers (don't remember their name) released usb cutters with the intent of using your own software and fonts. I guess krikut felt the pressure of the pissed off people that could not hack their POS. I'll have to check that out. My cutter uses the same blades as hers and I think blade holder. They are identical to Roland stuff. Maybe we can keep hers and save a bunch of money. Rolands are big big money.

Thanks pal for the info. This may turn out to be a great thing.

[Erich Reichert]

Ok so I will start by saying that I COMPLETELY agree about all this and maybe its just that the economy SUCKS (welcome to Reaganomics part III) and money's a little tighter. The thing to keep in mind and its the reason that i felt it was important to post this. The one topic in R/C that seems to be kept behind the black curtain is our hobby's affect on marriages and relationships. I think its safe to say that we've all seen our share of guys we race with go through a divorce that in some part had to do with their r/c addiction. I know of my own personal friends there's been 4 or 5. Whether it ends up being money, or even just time not spent with the family because you were cutting motors or building a car, it can happen and get out of control before you even realize it. What I guess i'm trying to say is that just be mindful of all this. I'd hate to see that happen to any of my friends of which I consider you all friends. Spend some time outside the shop, talk about your money situation with her. Maybe there's something going on that your not realizing. Try to work out some sort of compromise so you can still enjoy your hobby and maintain some sanity for her. For what its worth here's what I did with my wife as a suggestion:

We talked about what I like to do in r/c and what she would feel ok with as far as time being spent on it. Even when my shop was at home which its not anymore (but i still do this) I kept myself to one night during the week and one on the weekend (for racing)... no interuptions just me and r/c. The flip side was that the other nights of the week are normal and one night during the week and the other on the weekend we would do something she wanted to or just spend the time together without getting into somthing i want to do (hiking or taking a drive were always good for this). It's about compromise. As far as the money goes that's where it gets a little harder. Not a lot of people (myself included) have "extra" money in their household budgets so putting money aside from your paycheck is pretty much out. If you both have some sort of hobby you enjoy then its at least back to the compromise thing... you can split it evenly per month or try alternating every other month (one month for hers one month for yours). What we actually ended up doing was getting a 2nd job or some sort of extra income that we keep for our hobbies and put into our household money to help out when we can. The rule with this is that if something NEEDS help the house then you really just have to suck it up but other then that we go with "your money is your money... enjoy what you worked hard for". I do some design work on the side, sell stuff on ebay and localally, and hoenstly even some of my money from writing for the magazine (2nd job) goes to my hobby. It keeps me from dipping into our checking account when she's trying to pay the mortgage and it keeps her from getting cranky that I spend our money on my hobby.

I know this post was a novel and a half but r/c should NEVER end up in a divorce. I rmember there was a Futaba add about someones wife and it said something like "RC Widow" and that just struck me as very odd that this was supposed to help sell our hobby. Don't let that happen to you... toy cars are NEVER more important then the real world. Just my 0.531304 Belgian Francs.

[mrlexan]

Erich "Dr. Sigmund Freud" Reichert

[Erich Reichert]

they call me...

[Asso_man!]

Well you're totally right Erich and it was worth reading it, at least for the Belgian francs allusion, we have the Euro now...

[Erich Reichert]

lol ya i like to keep it back to different members countries though... even if its for old times sake.

[Asso_man!]

and imagine a collector that has to sell all his stuff to pay the darn divorce after the wife left him because of his stuff...

[MONSTER]

In CONTRAST, mine has been WAAAAY unusually cooperative lately. She let Win a Forum Members Auction the other day, and has agreed to bids on 2 other auctions that I was unsuccessful with. Oh yea, and let me buy a Batt/Charger for a Air Hogs Storm Launcher I got at Dirt Cheap for 8 BUCKS. She usually balks at me spending ANYTHING on R/C!!!

...jealous....? LOL

P.S. I have an AWESOME pic (gif) for this thread, but cant find it online, and imageshack wont let me upload it.

[Tadracket]

Well said Erich. My wife and I play by similar rules except for the money part. Our house rules are "what's hers is hers and whats mine is hers"

Actually, she goes back to work in June as an RN (woowhoo) so finally, we will be getting back on track financial. But with 2 relatively new kids and the fact that we have been living on beans for the last 3-4 years, we actually have huge plans to bank a bunch of money for the kids college expenses. The oldest is 4 so by the time he is ready for college, he should not have to worry about how to pay.

That is a compromise I made. And it will help me in the long run. The more I support the financial stability of the entire family, the more the wife gives up on my hobby stuff.

[Tadracket]

Tad, now they have a cartridge the hooks to the PC via USB...I will probably have to pick that up soon. With "design" software I will have to master and then attept to teach her.

If I am reading this right, you still don't have the ability to include your own font or plotted images. There had got to be a way of hacking this. I don't have the time to write a driver or I would try that.

If you buy this, let me know what the software consists of. By reading, it sounds like you still have to use the font cartridges but you are suppose to be able to use as many as you want. If they have created a way of downloaded the fonts to the PC, that means there is a place to put your own. And you get the entire image library from Cricut so maybe you can ad a few of your own. I gotta research this more. the used cricut are dirt cheap. It may not be worth putting hers up for sale.

[Halgar]

Well said Erich. My wife and I play by similar rules except for the money part. Our house rules are "what's hers is hers and whats mine is hers" .

Simple house rules, it's HER house, you live by HER rules.

To Erich's comments about RC addiction causing divorce. I seriously doubt that it was RC that was the cause of the problems, merely one more straw that finally broke the camel's back. I would never assume to know what's going on behind other folks' doors, nor would I want to, it's just been my experience that trivial matters, such as RC and "hobby time" gets blamed for problems that run far deeper into the relationship than either party wishes to admit.