Depends on the car.

Moke stuff comes from General Fund as its for the kids
Jag comes from work money as its my company car
Other projects come my slush fund that gets topped up when we both of our slush funds are empty.Our sludh funds are of equal amount so if I spend all of mine I have to wait for Caroline to spend all of hers before I get some more and versa visa

I ask them to put the invoice in an envelope and mail it seperately.

I also run by the rule of 10 percent. 10 dollars worth of flowers will then see them turn a blind eye to 100 dollars worth of purchases.

Wife also realises that when I say it cost 50, it actually cost more like 130.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

my wife didnt even know i got another mini until it pulled up out the front of my house on the back of a tow truck

I was at work which was the best place to be at the time

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with the fury of a Monkey Dishwasher aimed at your Purple

57 Morris minor
88 Rover Mini

Sarah doesn't see the credit card bill and never checks the online statements or anything, so she doesn't know.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

My dad has to take money out of an ATM when he goes to buy presents for mum, otherwise she knows when she checks the bank where he got it from and how much, giving her a fair indication of what it is.

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Talk is Cheap because Supply Exceeds Demand

The only ones she knows about are the ones where I "scored that hard to get part at a bargain price" appropriately beatup or absolutely necessary for safety Now all these are paid for from the parts I've sold which she hears about or other "wind falls" - talk about loaves and fishes

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

I gave up smoking and the goal to keep off the weed was that I could spend the "extra" two hundred a fortnight on mini bits. Well the motor got built and other bits got done and slowly and surely the "extra" got absorbed in household and we certainly arn't two hundred better off any more.

The answer is it all comes from consolidated revenue and no secrets. Not always happily but no secrets.

Cass - you say five years down the track etc etc - that seems a lifetime to you. We are suggesting that when you are forty, have three kids, two in high school, a huge morgage, and the rego for two cars, the telephone bill and the electricity bill all come at the same time there is a special on Arden heads - thats not Elizabeth Arden btw. Lets hears your opinions then. You may have to shout as i will be over ninety so i may be a bit deaf.

The thing is that I've got my plans. I'm not going to just shuffle along through life and take what ever comes to meI've got my plans for having an income while being a stay at home mum (property investment). Basically all I have ever wanted to be is a mum and have a family, and I've done alot of thinking about it and how I'm going to make it go right so that I'm more than comfortable with my family.

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Talk is Cheap because Supply Exceeds Demand

Dont wish to hard you might get what you want, which may prove to be not what you want, unless what you want is to not be tied down to a given financial strategy which means that if you dont know what you want it may in fact be what you want.

I hope it works out the way you want it to. The problems how you want it to changes as opportunities arise and situtations change. So the very finanical situation you want now may be a limiting factor when it comes decision time later on.

So far what I've wanted has changed many many times in the last 6months to a year. But even though the changes have occured I'm still on track.

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Talk is Cheap because Supply Exceeds Demand

I have had four completely different careers in my life so far - I am retired now. Its good to have plans, goals, strategies and targets. But somewhere you need to be flexible because things come along and bite you on the bum.

For your interest Cass; Started off as a hospital laboratory scientist, got janked into the army for two years buit was a medic, finished my medical studies, went into medical sales, went back to uni and got a computer degree and worked in IT for 10 years and now for the last 10 years semi retired but grow prime lambs.

Along the way, met and married had two kids, got divorced, met and married again and had another kid. Life has a habit of turning and biting you on the bum when you least expect it as I said.

I am sure other have similar stories

I voted normal account.
The minister of finance/fun/war & unreasonable moodswings has revoked my money privledges after a large non mini related purchase.
I was really hoping she wouldn't notice the 42" HD Plasma instead of the 80cm tv
Before that if i could buy anything if i could justify it. Or i was able to just do it if it was $100 or less.

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My wife knows exactly how much I have spent on the LS as I keep a list of all stuff done or bought for it on the computer.. But since selling the Moke, I kept some of the funds for the sole purpose of finishing off the Mini..

I tell the wifie because I don't smoke, drink, gamble or run around with bad women (maybe because I can't find one and if I did, would I remember what to do with her after I caught her??) I may as well spend money on the Mini and IF I ever have to sell it, I will get some money back from it (certainly not what I have spent on it tho).

To the above list I also add "don't do drugs", my wife normally jumps in and finishes off naming the list for me before I get a chance to finish...

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One should never skimp on the zip ties.

Penny does'nt want to know what i spend on mini stuff, i don't want to know what she spends on shoes! Its a good deal.

Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.