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?

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

Under the floorboards ? ;)

Or tell her its the new Sky Digibox !

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.

:)

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

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

Hello

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

Steve.

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

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

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

Google ad:

:confused: thought they were s'posed to be relevant. :)

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

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.....

Edd

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

Si

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?' :D

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

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.

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!

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 :D

it's the way of life :rolleyes:

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.

Just say google ads told you too ;)

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)..

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." ;)

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 :rolleyes:

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

Compromised on a sofa bed instead of two lazy boyz :D

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

:D :D 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 :rolleyes: )

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 :rolleyes:

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

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

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 :D

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

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