hobby money

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Just out of curiosity where do you get the money to hobby I for one work for the state and despite what people have been told we do not make a lot of money yes we have good benefits but you can't spend those I have a wife that doesn't work[not by my choice] to small children and a mortgage trying to save money to buy a new truck the old one is on its last set of tires it's been nickel and diming me to death for the last two years and I do most of the work on it myself how do you seek the money by a eagle eyed wife some of the tricks that I have learned is to tell her the truck cost me $40 to fix when it actually only cost 20 taking odds and ends jobs on my days off and tell her I made 50 when I actually made 100 telling her I need $10 for lunch and going to the drive up window and ordering a dollar meal my brother let's me borrow his metal detector I've been doing that for the last three years and actually have a bag full of old silver coins and even found a gold piece last year and yes the wife does not know about the gold piece I guess what I'm asking is there any more ways to sneak money by the wife that I haven't thought of the paycheck is out I get direct deposit and she's there and knows how much I get