Buying Advice Wife has no idea!

[ckane]

Just inked up on a brand new L3700su today! Picking it up tommorrow. Took me almost 3 months to decide on making a purchase. 0 pct finance put me over the edge. This is my first tractor and I cant believe how excited I am. I have about 10 acres but hunt on 350 acres with some food plots that I will now be taking care of. I added cruise and a Land Pride 60 inch cutter. Stopped by the dealer today to see how the cruise install was coming and he had the whole rear end off to install the cruise. I think negotiating that into the price was a smart move. One mistake I may have made was the sales tax. UGH!!! 5% in Va! Looks like if I had bought it out of state and picked it up I could have avoided that extra grand! The dealer was super and I like supporting my local economy but that 1k would have felt better still in my wallet.:licking: I guess telling my wife could be my biggest hurdle yet! Any advise? She knows a Kubota is on the radar... I have taken by the dealer 2x and been leaving brochures laying all around the house.Even sent flowers to her work to wish her a happy Tuesday!!!! Guess we will see her reaction tomorrow when ALL that ORANGE is sittn in front of the house. By the way...anybody ever had to sleep on their Kubota???? Wish me luck!

 

[PHILIP8N]

I bought my L3940 with front blade in fall of 2009. She knew I was looking, but the tractor was a suprise. Money came from a land sale so permission was not really an issue. In the fall of 2010 I did buy a FEL for it without asking. I brought the FEL out one day and used it to pull up her bushes in front of the house. The loader was orange, matched the tractor, and was mounted to the tractor. To this day she has no idea it was something extra I got at a later date! Philip.

 

[Kiotisooner]

I thought I was the only one dumb enough to do stuff like that. This makes me feel better. I have to go and let my wife know that I am not the only other idiot that buys tractors without telling their wife! Remember, It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

 

[ITHINKICAN]

Remember, It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

:thumbsup:

 

[donn12]

Gutsy move. I have always been able to talk my way into anything but I have never spent over 5k and had it be a total surprise. Once I could not get the okay for a new corvette. I went back a few days later and said i had decided on a motorcycle (much cheaper). I got the okay for another sport car after telling her what the payment was. She called back 20 minutes later to ask how much down and i said too late and hung up.
My favorite was the tractor. After the massive DC blizzard she made a joke about a "real tractor" not a girly one like my BX24. I laughed very hard (because I had decided I wanted a B but had not figured out my strategy) and said that that was a very expensive joke. A month later I received my B2920 from barlows. As far as she knows you cant get one of these without TLB, chipper, blade, forks, 2 sets of tires etc.

 

[TripleR]

Fortunately my wife likes tractors as much as I do, so no problems. She also likes guns, motorcycles/ATV/RUV...

 

[dodge man]

All I can say is ooooooooh. If I spend much over a few hundered bucks, I always kind of tell her I'm buying it, but I'm really asking. I had to work on her for several weeks before we bought our most recent purchase, a 2010 Challenger. Good luck and enjoy the new ride.

 

[VTFireftr]

TripleR,

Are you sure we aren't married to the same woman?

When I went to buy the tractor, the wife said go for it. Now I can't get her off it when we are working on our road. She operates the tractor and I operate the hand tools.


CKane, take the wife to the dealer and let her drive it and then tell her when it's going to be delivered. Just make sure the dealer knows what's going on, so they can help with the ploy.

Marc

 

[jbooth]

If you can classify your tractor as farm use, you don't have to pay sales tax. That's how it is in Kansas anyway. Don't know if there is an acre cut-off or not. I have 120 acres and am required to sign the waiver that my purchases are for farm use. As far as the wife, you could end up with a $1000 worth of nickel bumps on your head.

 

[Diamondpilot]

My tractor is not orange but the same applies. She said I was stupid for buying a tractor until about a week after I got it. She was out digging in the flower bed with a shovel. I drove the tractor over and took off the sod in about a 10x20 area in 3 scoops. It would have taken her all day.

Tell her about all the great things it can do for her and her projects.

Chris