Just So You Know wrote:
Why are you posting this on a running message board? Your wife sounds like she was successful in distracting you and is probably getting gang banged right now, while you're bitching about turkey day dinner 6 weeks away.
Very possible that she will have an affair later on down the line--given the personality type. Most people "affair down." All the more reason to get out of the marriage.
you've made your bed - enjoy sleeping in it.
Kramer.... wrote:
Right, so you got crappy knives that don't hold an edge and don't handle. Fine for college kids, but terrible if you actually cook anything more advanced than pasta. Good knives are not cheap.
How about an Ulu for 3 bucks, a heavy duty veggie chopping knife for 3 bucks, a Japanese vegetable knife for 3 bucks.
I cut swiss chard, kohrabi and beet stalks tonight, stuffed them in jars, then did the same with fresh beets, 5 quarts total that will be sitting to ferment for 7 to 10 days, and delicious to eat. In fact all you need is one good knife anyway. I've got plenty of good knives, probably much better than yours, and they hardly cost anything.
Why would I want to spend $500 for knives, that would be stupid. Well you could always say that you spent $500 for knives.
J.R. wrote:
Kramer.... wrote:Right, so you got crappy knives that don't hold an edge and don't handle. Fine for college kids, but terrible if you actually cook anything more advanced than pasta. Good knives are not cheap.
How about an Ulu for 3 bucks, a heavy duty veggie chopping knife for 3 bucks, a Japanese vegetable knife for 3 bucks.
I cut swiss chard, kohrabi and beet stalks tonight, stuffed them in jars, then did the same with fresh beets, 5 quarts total that will be sitting to ferment for 7 to 10 days, and delicious to eat. In fact all you need is one good knife anyway. I've got plenty of good knives, probably much better than yours, and they hardly cost anything.
Why would I want to spend $500 for knives, that would be stupid. Well you could always say that you spent $500 for knives.
Well we could debate knife quality all night. I own an ulu for skinning game. It's fantastic, and I've certainly never seen a quality one for $3.
Or we could just conclude you are poor.
Planning and preparation of Thanksgiving dinner, we can teach some lessons about money.
Every year my wife's family for Thanksgiving dinner cooking new dishes. Few years, she reveals how you want it before you find a dish to proceed with several failed attempts.
Afraid of losing money, do not prevent the investment. If you are in the stock market, I can almost guarantee that you will lose money. Investments for fear of loss rather than not, do it, learn from your mistakes, you work for your investment strategy can be found.
lovely turtles wrote:
Planning and preparation of Thanksgiving dinner, we can teach some lessons about money.
Every year my wife's family for Thanksgiving dinner cooking new dishes. Few years, she reveals how you want it before you find a dish to proceed with several failed attempts.
Afraid of losing money, do not prevent the investment. If you are in the stock market, I can almost guarantee that you will lose money. Investments for fear of loss rather than not, do it, learn from your mistakes, you work for your investment strategy can be found.
Please take some English classes and don't just post what freetranslation.com gives you.
As for big, expensive turkeys....a story of long ago is about a neighbor who drove 30 miles to buy a kosher turkey, spent big bucks on it, only to have the neighborhood dog make off with it in a split second when her back door was open. Hilarious. The owner's dog bought them a new one.
That wasn't Thanksgiving, it was Christmas. And it wasn't your neighbor, it was a fictional character in a movie called "The Christmas Story." The movie is aired on TBS for the entirety of Christmas Eve, which may have been what confused you.
Take the Skinheads Trolling wrote:
As for big, expensive turkeys....a story of long ago is about a neighbor who drove 30 miles to buy a kosher turkey, spent big bucks on it, only to have the neighborhood dog make off with it in a split second when her back door was open. Hilarious. The owner's dog bought them a new one.
Creeper wrote:
That wasn't Thanksgiving, it was Christmas. And it wasn't your neighbor, it was a fictional character in a movie called "The Christmas Story." The movie is aired on TBS for the entirety of Christmas Eve, which may have been what confused you.
Possibly the best post ever? I think you won the Internet with that one.
This thread makes me not want to ever get married.
tom-tom wrote:
I'm at my wits end.
Good thing your wit is a willing soul. 'cause it looks like you're going to piss off the bride and that will close that hole for good.
Kramer.... wrote:
Well we could debate knife quality all night. I own an ulu for skinning game. It's fantastic, and I've certainly never seen a quality one for $3.
Or we could just conclude you are poor.
I'm sure you saw the one that cost 500 bucks.
Now why would you conclude that I'm poor, when you spend 50 times as much as me just for knives. Extrapolated out, you would need to work 50 times as long as me at the same rate of pay just to have the same quality of lifestyle as me. Or I could work just 1 hour a week, compared to your 50, for me to have the same lifestyle as you. However you are welcome to conclude that I'm poor. For sure I don't work a lot of hours just to make money to buy knives, turkeys and tables.
huuummmm wrote:
This thread makes me not want to ever get married.
Your short stature and waif-thin physique will ensure that you will never have the opportunity to get married
Important information:
What are your occupations and how much do you make per year?
Big deal standing up to parents and saying stop your tradition and start ours. She wants hers to be worthy for them. New house and kitchen, major party and the vision of how perfect the parents seemed to pull it off can overwhelm even a gal who took home economics in HS.
Of course my first thanksgiving in our new house with Fang's mom went well. She never even mentioned the missmatches silverware. Fangs mom even seemed to get over her daughtes slip that we were having regular 4 ways with the tattooed lesbian couple. Well... until the drunk canuck hockey player asked the 2 federal marshalls (assigned to my friend while he was on trial for murder), if he could put out a couple of party lines for the gang with out arrest... it was.
tom-tom wrote:
Any advice on how to reign in her lavish spending without precipitating postnuptial shutoff?
I'm curious. Did your wife push for an elaborate and expensive wedding?
why not be a man and brine the turkey yourself?
5 bills on kitchen gear is an investment that will last a lifetime, assuming she's buying the good shit. But a $200 turkey!?!! I'd go off the handle.
Dude, these Williams-Sonoma chicks are stereotypical. Send her to the black guys to be gangbanged. She'll pretend to be horrified but she'll love it so much that she will never think of spending money at Williams-Sonoma again. Make the Pavlovian equivalence between WS and black gangbang.
Let me guess, you enabled this behaviour with two-and-a-half karats from Tiffany's.
You set yourself up for this one and found yourself a common first-class American whore of a gold-digger. Soon she will crap out a couple of kids and your finances will be toast. Private schools, tutors, extravagant trips, high end clothing, Versace, matching his-and-her BMWs, and once the kids come the house is not big enough and you're looking at a four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath house in a desireable neighborhood or bust.
When she hits menopause and gets depressed she will blow all of your savings on the QVC network. By that time, you will have no legal recourse as she will get 75-80% of your earnings if you try to get out. US court system is totally slanted towards favoring women in any divorce settlement action. She will drain you dry, and you will be a miserable shell of yourself when you are 70.
So, how did Thanksiving turn out in the end?