EddScott

I'm itching to buy an X-Box! I want to play Gotham Racing and Halo and other games you can't get on PS2. I've got a PC but never get to use it for games so have to stick with consoles.

I'd buy one 2nd hand for around £100 and she knows there are about this price.

My problem is I just spent lots on my car getting it mapped and I'm a bit skint this month (and possibly more to follow ) and shes a bit miffed cos she found the invoice and wants new bedroom furniture and most definately not an X-Box.

What to do? Hide it behind the TV and wait for her to go out before using it?

rogp

Ask her to remove her thumb so you can get out from under it?

MJW

Under the floorboards ?

Or tell her its the new Sky Digibox !

Goldeneye

You could pretend you won it in a competition.

Parcel it up and send it to yourself and include inside the box a fabricated letter congratulating yourself on winning a prize.

RichWalk

Tell her its a toaster, she'll never know the difference

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Introduce her to DDR Ultra Mix, you won't get her off of it

boxst

Hello

I would go with the competition! Or fake an E-bay page where you won a "bargain" for £20 or something ...

Steve.

Dracoro

Until she starts trying to shove bread into it instead of disks!

jase555

a scoobynetter could always fake some emails for you and you can show her,

write a cheque which she will never see being cashed if you know what i mean

Fatman

Buy it. Sell it to someone else for some absurdly cheap price. But it back for the same, and claim "look! what a bargain!"

rik1471

Google ad:

thought they were s'posed to be relevant.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Totally relavent, tell her the good news whilst 1000ft in the air in a big picnic basket

Gidney&Knowlesy

Won it in a raffle at work...............

Parents bought it for you........

Some Dillion left ot on the train.........

Mate lent it to you.........

You come clean & (wear the trousers) tell her straight.....

Mr.Cookie

Edd

If you want mrcookie.co.uk can do a compo, you buy the prize i'll say you won it

Si

Dracoro

Just buy it, wire it up etc.

When she asks about it, just give her a stupid look and say 'It's always been there, what you on about woman?'

frankthetank

yep
id fess up be a man and take it on the chin
i didnt do any of these things .....
i winged until she said it was ok

EddScott

I must admit I've dropped the odd hint that they had come down in price and during a recent trip to Toys R Us for the nipper I tried to get her to have a look at the X-Boxs but she wouldn't have it.

I suggested we sell the PS2 to fund the X-Box which fell on deaf ears as she wouldn't be able to use her dance mat with the X-Box.

Hobo_Jojo

er whose money is it with? whose money is this bedroom furniture supposed to be bought with? if yours get whatever the hell you want and tekk her its your money!

RB5-Black

woh there hobo..... easy seeing you don't live with a woman

what's her's is her's and what's yours is her's

it's the way of life

Hobo_Jojo

lol i do actually live with my girlfriend :P
we keep our money seperate from each others as it stops lots of arguements that way.

Mr.Cookie

Just say google ads told you too

Nimbus

Do you have a DVD player? If not, get it chipped and install the DVD program and there you go, A games machine and DVD player in one

(you can also buy the DVD add-on without chipping as well if you prefer)..

EddScott

As it happens the DVD player packed up a while ago and the playback through the PS2 isn't great. Bit more to add to the petition.

Can't be too heavy handed or its a case of "Theres the sofa, you can get your own pillow."

RB5-Black

Hobo ... how the eck did you manage to wangle that deal.... my xbox live playing has plummeted since the GF moved in and if I want to purchase anything big I get the do you really need that line

and when I said I was moving my Xbox and projector into the Third bedroom she went off on one

Compromised on a sofa bed instead of two lazy boyz

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

whats wrong with her buying the bedroom furniture and you spend somemore on yourselfyour never going to get the bedroom stuff for £100 so you might as well buy the xbox

Muffleman

This sounds TOO familiar

Well technically, half my xbox belongs to the missus - SOMEONE bought it for us as an anniversary present (ahem). (Yes I'm still reminded about it on a regular basis )

My car is with my tuner at the mo having lots done, so when I got paid today I was told (in a face that REALLY means it) NO GAMES THIS MONTH

As for your dilemma, maybe something really bad happened to you at work and you consoled yourself with an X-Box (no console pun intended !!!)

All the best.....

Matt

swaussie

forget the X-box, spend the money on a divorce, then do what you damn well like.....

Beastie

iTrader: (2)

Just buy one and say you borrowed it off a mate. Later on when she asks if u are going to give it back say that Oh he got given a new one at Xmas and doesnt need this one back now!!
Sorted

sti555

buy it for a valentines present for your missus!! lol!

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

My wife wasnt bothered about the money, just the aesthetics of the thing, the PS2 was fine apparently but the Xbox neccessitated the purchase of a 300 quid tv cabinet from Next, shot myself in the foot there !

anyway, saw this, price cut to 99 dollars in US so there may be a price cut over here, if it drops to 70 quid I will buy another to

http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/28/comm...ex.htm?cnn=yes