Convince my wife I "would" only use Fusion

[Jonnie]

There's an antique show coming up this weekend near me that might help with feeding a growing RAD need. I'm trying to work up the justification for the spending since she'll be there with me and see any purchases.

Here's my thoughts (and also prove the adage Figures can Lie and Liars can Figure)

I need some ideas on how to convince my wife that if I wasn't using DE's I would only be happy using the Fusion cartridge system. Here's why...

At a local store I can buy 8 Fusion carts for $27.49 ($3.43 per cart). Figuring 4 shaves per cart, 6 shaves per week, I'll need 78 carts for a year's worth of shaves. This will run me $268.03 per year for shaving cartridges.

Now, instead I'll be using some Derby or such DE blades that will only cost me $.16 per blade for (using same 78 blades/year) a total of $12.48 per year.

This nets me a savings of $255.55 per year! Using her logic from several years ago; since I would have been spending the $255 anyway, I might as well invest it in some other razors that if need be could probably be sold later for a profit.

Any ideas on how to sell her this one?

 

[SpyvSpy]

Just tell her the money you save could go to buying her flowers orsonething nice every once in awhile. If I get an expensive soap my wife gets something nice like makeup. Catch my drift?

 

[TimmyBoston]

Go by yourself.

 

[ClubmanRob]

Go by yourself.

+1.

Tell her that at least you're not smoking crack or having an affair.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

If using one razor nets $255.55 in annual savings, imagine how much you would save per year using 3 or 4 or 5 razors!!

 

[Tha Baron]

Well, if you're the bread winner then you should just buy whatever you want. Just my two cents.

 

[ambrose]

nothing like bread and shaving

 

[luvmysuper]

Man, the reasoning thing won't fly. She'll look at you with those steely eyes and call you on it.

Your best bet is to encourage her to get something for herself, then you can "legally" spend on you an equal amount.

Well, if you're the bread winner then you should just buy whatever you want. Just my two cents.

Yeah, tell her that and see how much stuff you buy now or in the next three years.

Good luck

 

[sol92258]

if using one razor nets $255.55 in annual savings, imagine how much you would save per year using 3 or 4 or 5 razors!!

win!

 

[chickpea]

Using her logic from several years ago

Sorry but science is against you there. Women are scientifically proven to remember every embarrassing detail of your past and every single time in history in which you did something upsetting to them, but are incapable of remembering the tortured logic they used to justify ancient purchases. Rely on such logic at your peril.

 

[Bulldawg]

There's an antique show coming up this weekend near me that might help with feeding a growing RAD need. I'm trying to work up the justification for the spending since she'll be there with me and see any purchases.

Here's my thoughts (and also prove the adage Figures can Lie and Liars can Figure)

I need some ideas on how to convince my wife that if I wasn't using DE's I would only be happy using the Fusion cartridge system. Here's why...

At a local store I can buy 8 Fusion carts for $27.49 ($3.43 per cart). Figuring 4 shaves per cart, 6 shaves per week, I'll need 78 carts for a year's worth of shaves. This will run me $268.03 per year for shaving cartridges.

Now, instead I'll be using some Derby or such DE blades that will only cost me $.16 per blade for (using same 78 blades/year) a total of $12.48 per year.

This nets me a savings of $255.55 per year! Using her logic from several years ago; since I would have been spending the $255 anyway, I might as well invest it in some other razors that if need be could probably be sold later for a profit.

Any ideas on how to sell her this one?

I highlighted a critical error in your plan. Change it to, it saves "us" $255.55 per year! Spend all of the "savings" on yourself and you're screwed. Spend some of the savings on her and you're good to go

 

[Jonnie]

I highlighted a critical error in your plan. Change it to, it saves "us" $255.55 per year! Spend all of the "savings" on yourself and you're screwed. Spend some of the savings on her and you're good to go

I agree that it would probably help but then it cuts into the total I could spend. Guess some is better than none though.

I can't remember the exact conversation since it was around 18 years ago, but it went something like this: I was going to spend $200 on clothes but they were on sale so I only spent $125. Since I was planning on spending the $200 anyway I actually have $75 to spend on extra bonus stuff. The logic kinda twisted my brain at the time so I let it go.

Maybe I was still reeling from a few years before that when we got married and I "learned" another rule: What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine and what's yours is cr*p so it goes out!

Think we could earn some extra coin to support our AD if we all got together to write a rule book for single guys about to get married?

 

[kingfisher]

If using one razor nets $255.55 in annual savings, imagine how much you would save per year using 3 or 4 or 5 razors!!

 

[Jonnie]

I can't remember the exact conversation since it was around 18 years ago, but it went something like this: I was going to spend $200 on clothes but they were on sale so I only spent $125. Since I was planning on spending the $200 anyway I actually have $75 to spend on extra bonus stuff. The logic kinda twisted my brain at the time so I let it go.

Maybe I was still reeling from a few years before that when we got married and I "learned" another rule: What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine and what's yours is cr*p so it goes out!

Think we could earn some extra coin to support our AD if we all got together to write a rule book for single guys about to get married?

First rule would be to not marry an accountant.

 

[Jethro1984]

go by yourself.

+2

 

[Captain Flint]

If using one razor nets $255.55 in annual savings, imagine how much you would save per year using 3 or 4 or 5 razors!!

That gotta be the best answer in the lot!

 

[Unknownsoldier]

No one else has thought of chloroform and leave her in the car???

Tom ;-)

 

[tlanning]

Go by yourself.

+1 Couldn't have said that one better myself. You gotta know she buys the things she wants and needs also.

 

[ouch]

Why, you're saving a fortune. You'd be stupid not to buy vintage shave gear.

 

[aquilla]

Well, if you're the bread winner then you should just buy whatever you want. Just my two cents.

hmm you could say that, OR you could just skip the formality of actually saying it and
1. slap yourself in the face,
2. move to the sofa, and
3. flush your shaving supplies down the toilet for yourself