Keeping the wife happy while hunting

[T3clay]

Hey everyone! Thought we could start a thread for some unique ideas for keeping the wife happy while your away on trips.

When our kids were young I used to pre make freezer meals for each night I would be gone (I’m a better cook than my wife ). Great way to take the stress off her so she isn’t handling all the kids activities and bedtime alone.

In the past I have also pre scheduled delivery of little gift baskets for a movie night or some other fun grift basket so a few days after I leave it arrives. I have also just hidden them in the house or had floweres delivered to my wife while I’m gone.

Anyone else do anything similar or have other ideas? I’m exhausting mine and looking for something new!

 

[Phaseolus]

Send her to the vacation place of her choice with a girlfriend. Edited, Girlfriend pays her own way. My Wife loves a Girls trip getaway.

 

[fmyth]

When I draw a tag my wife is more excited than I am. She gets the house to herself for a couple weeks.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Send her to the vacation place of her choice with a girlfriend. Edited, Girlfriend pays her own way. My Wife loves a Girls trip getaway.

I would be afraid to do that. Might end up like Ross Geller.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Hahahahahahaha!

If there was ever a thread on RS to hide from my wife, this is it.

 

[survivalistd]

 

[ORJoe]

Send her to the vacation place of her choice with a girlfriend. Edited, Girlfriend pays her own way. My Wife loves a Girls trip getaway.

Usually men try to keep their wives and girlfriends from meeting but I guess hunting with .223s isn't the only thing Roksliders do different.

 

[Phaseolus]

I would be afraid to do that. Might end up like Ross Geller.

Married the wrong Woman then.

 

[Maverick1]

Good luck in your quest!

 

[HairyScandinavian]

I just take her with me, it's easier and she can pack quarters.

 

[AZ8]

 

[butcherboy]

Why do you need to make her happy while you are away?

 

[Will_m]

When I draw a tag my wife is more excited than I am. She gets the house to herself for a couple weeks.

Sounds like she might have a boyfriend. Which, coincidentally, is a great way to occupy the wife while out hunting.

 

[tstowater]

My wife is very happy for me when I get to go on a good hunt. She claims that I have been gone 24 or 25 days so far this fall. She did go on a girl's trip earlier and did some painting in the house on the last trip. Her level of tolerance is most welcome. I'm one of the lucky ones.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

Get her a mop…or, maybe a broom. If you’re really needing points, I’d go cordless vacuum.

 

[Maverick1]

Get her a mop…or, maybe a broom. If you’re really needing points, I’d go cordless vacuum.

Then next year you can get her a mop bucket, dustpan, or extension cord……

 

[String&stick]

Well as another hunter that does his best to keep the wife happy while she's at home with the kids and I'm away having a good time here at some things I do:

1. Prep meals before heading out
2. Hand her some cash from my stash when I leave to spend on whatever she wants and not consider our budget
3. Plan/force her on a girls trip once a year (she loves it once she goes but refuses to "spend" on herself for it. So I talk to her friends and book it In her calendar
4. Buy her books from her list on kindle or Amazon
5. The week before and after a hunt I'm normally at her disposal. We are a 50/50 team with parenting and house work but I try to be 80/20 before I leave and after I come back. I know she's 100% on while I'm gone and the to make up for that one both sides of a week/9 days away.
6. Flowers - I've done right before I leave but like the idea of delivery while gone!
7. Scratch tickets - we virtually never buy them but she enjoys them now and again as entertainment so I'll buy a few and text her about them once I'm gone to do in an evening.

Idk I try to think of new things each year but fall into habits.

 

[T3clay]

Well as another hunter that does his best to keep the wife happy while she's at home with the kids and I'm away having a good time here at some things I do:

1. Prep meals before heading out
2. Hand her some cash from my stash when I leave to spend on whatever she wants and not consider our budget
3. Plan/force her on a girls trip once a year (she loves it once she goes but refuses to "spend" on herself for it. So I talk to her friends and book it In her calendar
4. Buy her books from her list on kindle or Amazon
5. The week before and after a hunt I'm normally at her disposal. We are a 50/50 team with parenting and house work but I try to be 80/20 before I leave and after I come back. I know she's 100% on while I'm gone and the to make up for that one both sides of a week/9 days away.
6. Flowers - I've done right before I leave but like the idea of delivery while gone!
7. Scratch tickets - we virtually never buy them but she enjoys them now and again as entertainment so I'll buy a few and text her about them once I'm gone to do in an evening.

Idk I try to think of new things each year but fall into habits.

Awesome ideas.

 

[lukebrowning]

Holy shit.

 

[Clomxill]

Get her a boyfriend. They cant hurt that thing.