FINMANDAN, haven't seen you here before...good to have you in the room! As far as what Slim said...Hmm...a role reversal of sorts! Isn't it wifey-poo that usually has to stash the goods? LOL!

It's very simple finmandan......LIE..LIE..LIE and LIE some more. BWAHAHAHAHA. X

H*ll in the begining all the neighbors thought my G/F had somethin goin whith the UPS guy on the side.My advice, make sure your on the weekly shipping option,have em shiped to your work?Thats what I did for a while then the shipping dept got tired of it and I started having the stuff delivered to my house again.Now after almost two years of internet buying/trading, I just tell her they're all trades or freebies/contest winnings and cigars I need to review.Course I have my own Credit/Debit Cards.Hehehehe!

Sounds Like A Bad Case Of O.D.O. Order Dis-Order.
I Had It Now I Have My First 50 Quart Coolerdor,Full.
Be Afraid Be Vary Afraid !!!

I am with you. My first three wins were on daily because I couldn't wait. I won tonight and was wishing someone would outbid me.

gosh, web ... that didn't take long .... lol ... I had hundreds of 'em before wishing to be outbid ...

Advise for Fin ... no advise here ... I'm fighting the same battle, though I gotta tell you, Slim's right ... you can cover the frequent deliveries a LOT easier than the high cc bills ... if you hit on a winning strategy, lemme know, would you? ... I'm still workin one one.

are all you guys afraid of your wives? what is all this about hiding shipments and credit card bills.

smoke cigarettes, cigars are the choice of men.

Very easy. You get a credit card with your work address on it. Then you have the cigars and the bills delivered to you at work. She won't know.

I haven't bid in over an hour.

What's worked for me is that I have a friend who is not very interested in the internet so he has me order cigars for him, so whenever I get an order I just tell my wife "they're for Kerrie", whether they are or not. Works every time.
PS I resolved to quit ordering 9 orders ago but I keep trying.

gosh, Sam ... maybe I should get you to order for me too ... YOUR wife would continue to be appeased because you could say, "oh, these are for Kerrie and Steve" ... MINE would be mollified since I could just say "oh, these? ... they're just some I got from Sammy" ...

Oh, yes!! that just might work ...

RICKAMAVEN --- I guess you have never had to explain $1,600 in credit card charges (over a 6 month period) to cigarsinternational to Toby ...

It doesn't mean we are afraid of our wives ... but as our 'partner-in-life', I feel they have a right to know how the household money is being spent.

My wife may not like the amount I spend on my 'hobby', but she never tells me I can't do it. I just tell her there are a lot of other (more expensive, and sometimes illegal) vices that I could be involved in ... and that seems to change her tune a little.

Steve, Kerrie has often told me to begin a web site as an ordering service. I've responded that I didn't think there was much of a market for this. Maybe I should reconsider...hmmmm...a cigar "drop" service.

My wife organized an intervention and signed me up for a 12-step group to get me to stop bidding.

I'm not bidding, not bidding, no no no no. (this is my denial chant) no bidding, no bidding, not gonna do it no mo.

Mr Mean,

How about now?............................................Now?.........................................................................maybe now!......................go ahead, you know you want to........................................do it NOW!........................bid on man!.............. bid on!...............HIGHER!!!

no harm in bidding, just winning, DOH!

Barry

Slimboli


toby and i are not only married but we started our business together, we worked together
every day, and now that we are semi retired together, we hang around together. as a matter of
fact she is dozing in the chair next to me while i type.


toby knows how much i spend on cigars.
toby has always known the family income
and outgo.
toby was the person that convinced me at age 40, to leave my job at AAA and
start our own little business.
40, 2 kids, and all the rest of life's normal bills, and a couple of
hundred dollars in the bank and we went for it.

we didn't want or expect to get rich and we
didn't, but here we are.

i have no idea what it costs to have her nails done. i have only a
vague idea what her collection of 300 + beanies cost or her, i don't know how many barbies she
has.
we don't deny each other anything.

we used to travel with other couples or in
large groups, but we stopped. we only travel with each other and are not forced to listen to
couples bicker or simply be mean and rude to each other. "honey, don't you think you have had
enough to eat, or drink, or smoke, or whatever." "hon, i wish we had gone to the restaurant i
suggested." "no dear, i don't need you to take the wheel for a while, i can drive the 10 hours
myself, you know i love to drive."
on our last cruises we sat at a small table with no other couples for that reason.

wherever we go we meet lots of nice people and we
can enjoy their company and split when we want.

are we lucky? no. we worked our tails off to
make this life good for each other and when the entire family get's together christmas, toby's
birthday, my son's birthdays, which they decided to celebrate together, and my birthday, i look
around the table and i am at peace.

Stop it! STOP IT! Your confusing the voices. They don't like being confused.