# My wife has no sales resistance(mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884 "2008-02-16T15:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/81 "2008-02-20T17:10:29Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] You have to get in the car to use it. It is illogical. It is just a key shaped heater. [/QUOTE] No, it’s in case you get locked \*in \* your car, so you’re already in the car and can plug it in. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/82 "2008-02-20T17:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] To me, that is like talking about a $200 hamburger. [/QUOTE] Good point, try [$99](http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/expensive36.html). ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/83 "2008-02-20T17:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Saga] You seriously have a Flo Bee??? I’ve never met anyone in my life that actually bought that thing. How do you guys look? Do you still have friends? :smack: Do sweaters actually have air? If so, why can’t they inflate over my boobies so I can stop stuffing my bra? :dubious: If you have a device that you plug into the cigarette lighter to de-ice your locks but you’re locked out of your car because your locks are frozen shut then isn’t the device a bit, er, redundant? 😕 [/QUOTE] The Flobee will give you the best haircut you can get. But it requires a canister vacuum cleaner. My wife got rid of our canister vacuum soon after we got Flobee. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/84 "2008-02-21T15:51:07Z")
I failed to mention the Filter Queen she bought at great price from a door to door salesman. It had plugged up hoses endlessly and the belt had to be put on weekly. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/85 "2008-02-21T17:18:16Z")
My solution for to expensive to make ice cream was I threw the damn thing out. I purchase ice cream for way less, and I couldn’t ever make the Breyers Fried Ice cream stuff, or the Culvers good stuff. I don’t know why people are concerned that I won’t make ice cream ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/86 "2008-02-21T18:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] I failed to mention the Filter Queen she bought at great price from a door to door salesman. It had plugged up hoses endlessly and the belt had to be put on weekly. [/QUOTE] She really doesn’t have any sales resistance. So, **gonzo** , how has this lack of sale resistance affected your marriage, if you don’t mind my asking? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/87 "2008-02-21T18:26:59Z")
My instinctual revulsion to behavior like the OP describes would not have allowed me to marry her in the first place. There’s NO WAY a tendency to behave like that would have remained hidden from me. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/88 "2008-02-21T18:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] She really doesn’t have any sales resistance. So, **gonzo** , how has this lack of sale resistance affected your marriage, if you don’t mind my asking? [/QUOTE] I pay no attention. She defends every purchase like she is saving money or providing an important service we did not know we needed. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/89 "2008-02-21T19:02:01Z")
It sounds like you are the right guy for her. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/90 "2008-02-21T20:43:25Z")
I used to have a wife who was unable to delay gratification. I got her to agree that we wouldn’t buy consumer items with a credit card, so if we wanted to buy something nice we had to save for it. Her inability to wait meant that we ended up with a house full of crap. We would pick out a nice table that might cost $1000, and three days later I’d come home to a delivery truck in the driveway unloading some crap teak-veneer-overprice-at-$350 POS. Same thing with TV’s, artwork - everything. My dad moved from the family home to a small condo and had to give up some furniture and art that wouldn’t fit, and I realized at that moment that there wasn’t a single thing in my house that my kids would ever want if I died. Not a single heirloom. After the divorse, I had the hugest garage sale and got rid of most of the things I owned. I made over $1000 and bought a coffee table and some lighting. I didn’t have real dining room furniture for almost two years, but I do now, plus a nice TV, computer, mattress ($1200, not $8K), etc. That garage sale was very theraputic. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/91 "2008-02-21T23:25:10Z")
[QUOTE=gonzomax] The Flobee will give you the best haircut you can get. But it requires a canister vacuum cleaner. My wife got rid of our canister vacuum soon after we got Flobee. [/QUOTE] What is it about a canister vacuum specifically that is required? I would’ve thought all you would need would be a vacuum with a hose. My upright has a hose. Would it not work? Why is it that “upright” and “hose” that close together sounds dirty? ---
**Author:** ![JimmyFlair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/92 "2008-02-22T01:44:25Z")
Hmmmm… I think that I have too much sales resistance. I seem to have an inherent distrust of people trying to sell me stuff, so my knee jerk reaction is always “No, thanks!”. I could be _ **on fire** _ and still instinctively shoo away a fire extinguisher salesman. I don’t know where this comes from. How’s about I go out shopping with your wife, and when a salesperson pops up, I’ll jump in between them and put all of my years of “No!” to good use. I’ll do this for the bargain rate of 10% of the price of purchases she would have otherwise made. Whaddya say? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884/93 "2008-02-22T01:54:30Z")
It says it needs a canister type. May be the volume of air required. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-has-no-sales-resistance-mild/437884.md?page=4)