How do you sneek in your pen ?

[artaddict]

I've reached the point where I don't try to hide my purhases anymore. He'll just have to accept what I do.

[jd50ae]

I find it completely unnecessary.

[Nikolaos]

Funny thread, lots of laughs here!

I have to say that i belong in the other side of the camp. My wife is totally aware of my pen expenditures and she is fully supportive of the pens i buy. Heck, she even sources pens for me many times out of Asia and deals with the sellers and communication.

I knew i was doing the right thing when i proposed

 

Nikolaos

[eckiethump]

Some of these made me laugh out load. There are some out there who sneak around with a mistress and then there is this small, somewhat eccentric, group of lads from a small community known as FPN who are forced to sneak fountain pens home. I LOVE it!!!

 

Loved the irony here,

 

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[Huffward]

Husband: "My God! Not another handbag with matching shoes, jacket, gloves, umbrella, scarf, &c., &c.."

 

Wife: "What about all your pens?"

 

Husband (in full tragic Shakespearean mode): "Pen? Pen? What's a pen? Can't remember when I last bought a new pen."

 

Wife: "Then you must treat yourself to one."

 

Husband (now in resigned mode): "Very well. If it will make you happy."

 

This is my usual technique for acquiring things I want. You have to in manaeouvre your wife, through guilt, into inviting you to buy them.

[Shangas]

OMG Huffward, that made me laugh so much!

[playpen]

One may not sneek in anything unless one is sneeky...

[graceaj]

I don't sneek in anything; my mother doesn't know how many pens I have. She thinks I just have that Parker Vector and Pelikano she bought me for school along with a Jotter that was my first. Of course that may soon change, since I woke today to find her rummaging through my stuff trying to find a set of keys. :blink:

[Ernst Bitterman]

Wear a duster or similar long coat. Unless the pen is bigger than a Schwartzeneggery shotgun, it'll never be seen.

 

Declare loudly upon entering, "Boy, I hope no one wants their next birthday spoiled by nosing around!"

 

Do what I do, and rush to the spouse saying, "LOOKIT THE COOL THING I GOT!" If you stick to vintage pens which have a very high coolness/dollar ratio (think-- Triumph-point TD in need of a new sac for $15, and sacs cost what exactly?), this route tends to work rather well.

[JayLo]

I have a deal with my wife...

I don't ask about her shoes and she doesn't ask about my FP's.

No sneaking necessary but her shoes take up a lot more space.

[goodguy]

Husband: "My God! Not another handbag with matching shoes, jacket, gloves, umbrella, scarf, &c., &c.."

 

Wife: "What about all your pens?"

 

Husband (in full tragic Shakespearean mode): "Pen? Pen? What's a pen? Can't remember when I last bought a new pen."

 

Wife: "Then you must treat yourself to one."

 

Husband (now in resigned mode): "Very well. If it will make you happy."

 

This is my usual technique for acquiring things I want. You have to in manaeouvre your wife, through guilt, into inviting you to buy them.

No doubt this is the sneakiest of all !!!

[Richard]

If you need to sneak a pen into the house, there's something fundamentally wrong with your relationship unless the pen is to be a gift for your sweetie. You might want to delay bringing an expensive pen home if you've just had a serious discussion about money, but if you haven't reached an understanding about your finances you need to do so.

 

I bought a Schnell Penselpen at the Ohio show. Barbara didn't kick, she just bought a gorgeous sterling silver chain mail necklace from Margaret Bernstein (Maille Order By Margaret). This is the deal we've worked out, it makes us both happy. (And the jewelry is to die for.)

Edited November 10, 2007 by Richard

[Elaine]

No sneaking, but we do have a kind of don't ask, don't tell thing going about prices. I've learned to made sure my daughter is not home when I get back from a pen show. She likes to go through the pens I bought and ask "ooh, how much was that one?" Once the question is out there - I'm not going to lie about it.

 

Richard, my problem is that I love the pens AND Margaret's jewelry!

[goodguy]

If you need to sneak a pen into the house, there's something fundamentally wrong with your relationship unless the pen is to be a gift for your sweetie. You might want to delay bringing an expensive pen home if you've just had a serious discussion about money, but if you haven't reached an understanding about your finances you need to do so.

 

I bought a Schnell Penselpen at the Ohio show. Barbara didn't kick, she just bought a gorgeous sterling silver chain mail necklace from Margaret Bernstein (Maille Order by Margaret). This is the deal we've worked out, it makes us both happy. (And the jewelry is to die for.)

All I can say Richard is you are way to serious for this fun descussion.

 

We are all honest people here right we never really sneak pen home under our spouses noeses right

[Pengrump]

As long as I don't angst about when the pen will get here or insist on staying in all day instead of taking a walk because I might miss the pen delivery, and as long as I like the pen once it does get here, the SO is fine with my pen habit. Of course I have to allow the pen to be tried out by m,y non-pen lover, but only if it's a pen suitable for a left-hander. I do get the occasional comment about how the pens, ink, and paper have taken over my study and the kitchen table, but that's a whole other matter. Now, if I ask for a pen for my birthday, that gets an outraged response of: "No! You don't need another pen!" So I've stopped taking that approach.

[Richard]

All I can say Richard is you are way to serious for this fun descussion.

Gosh, you missed the point. My note was all a lead-up to the plug for Margaret. Here's the photo on the front page of her site -- the woman is her daughter Rachel, and I'm sure Margaret won't mind the publicity.

 

http://mailleorder.com/rachel.gif

 

 

[Cloud]

Well,

 

I started FP restoration.... since many many packages come home. It's now super easy to receive pens without any comments. Also finance comes from restoration, so this is an autonomous (almost) hobby.

 

I've sent many pens to peoples workplace... I guess this is the most common mean of doing this.

 

 

[goodguy]

All I can say Richard is you are way to serious for this fun descussion.

Gosh, you missed the point. My note was all a lead-up to the plug for Margaret. Here's the photo on the front page of her site -- the woman is her daughter Rachel, and I'm sure Margaret won't mind the publicity.

 

http://mailleorder.com/rachel.gif

Richard first I guess I missed the point.Even though I use English every day here in Toronto my mother languege isnt English and from time to time I still miss stuff.

 

As for the picture I must say that a beautiful picture,beautiful jewelery and a beautiful woman

[Brian Anderson]

Two strategies I'm surprised weren't really mentioned:

 

1) Have the pen shipped to work. My reasoning? Always someone there to sign for it, and delivery to business is earlier. Once it comes, it's easy to slip in the pen chest when I get home and disposal of box and packing material is easier.

 

2) Wife: "That looks new, is that a new pen?" Me: "No, that I've had for a long time" Now a "long" time may be a few weeks, a few days or even several hours.

 

Seriously, I don't do #1 as much any more, since I found myself having to run into work on Saturday's to see if something came in. Since I have a lot of packages of nibs, pens, the occasional repair coming in and out, it does sort of balance itself out.

 

Best-

Brian

[extrafine]

Of course the problem then becomes that people at work become curious as well :-).