[ACanonGuy]

If you are fully financial independent and could buy anything anytime without justifying to anyone other than to yourself (provided you have the money and willing to spend it that way), good for you and this post may not be for you.

But for many of us we always face this or similar questions like "又買! 你不是有了嗎?" from our love one or significant other when we want to buy that new or another camera body, lens, filter, bag, tripod, memory card, etc. Here is a real experience of mine just happened a few weeks ago:

Poor me: “I need a new tripod”
Her Majesty: “You already have two tripods. Why do you need another one?”
Poor me: “But i need a better one”
Her Majesty: “Well, remember the <enter your last toy here> that you bought last year with all the great features that you never used?”
Poor me: “But this time …”
Her Majesty: "Why don't you put this on your wish list for Christmas?"
Poor me: "December is around the corner, right?"

I would like to hear from all the 師兄師姐 out there if you have any success strategy, advise or story to share. No, I can't divorce her and I can't kill her either :).

[dyuen]

To dupe her into the drug world of photography. If she becomes an addict, she would even buy more than you do. So, from next time onward, get her involved in all your shooting activities.

[yyz828]

mny C Hing,

You are so lucky that your career related to photography. The only thing I can do is( like dyuen) to get my wife involved.Hopefully,she will addct to it one day.

[snoopybee]

How about using her LV, Gucci, Prada, Balenciaga as a counter example? =p

[factotum]

You shld use more nicer words...the existing one can't do this and that instead of “But i need a better one”.

[JSmith]

同佢講，冇一樣嘢係一樣既，功能各有不同，雖然表面上個樣好似......

[phywmche]

Just tell her " I got a lung cancel, before I die, I want to buy what I want."

[王迦南]

『大人，你認為我用約二萬元買支靚鏡專攻o靚模，還是用約一萬元買支靚腳架打雀好呢？我要聽聽你的客觀意見啊！』

[micspma]

First, tell her you're selling out some of your old accessories, but the new tripod is special price for limited time, then convince her to let you buy the new tripod first, later when the old stuff got sold out, you'll pay back to her, then of course when she ask you later, your model answer will be "No......not many people interested on my things, I'll keep trying...."

[biscuit321]

你買一樣O既時候都買返D野俾佢LAW

[wing_kw]

革命尚未成功,同志仍需努力

[h0001244]

Buy her something special before you buy yourself something special........

[pongyee]

tell a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth, base on the same ststrategy, you ask a thousand times for the permission, it will get approved.

[snoopybee]

Just thought of one ... as she's not technical enough, maybe you could tell her that the old tripods could no longer hold the weight of your new eqpt ...

[pongyee]

>> Just thought of one ... as she's not technical enough, maybe you could tell her that the old tripods could no longer hold the weight of your new eqpt ...


what if she asked for a test ?
^_^