It's times like that when I turn my wife's own words around and use them on her.
When I walk in the house after work and she's standing there holding a shopping bag I know exactly what's coming next. First she pulls out a very long receipt and slides her finger towards the bottom of said long paper. Then she'll very proudly utter these words, "Look at how money I saved today, honey!"
To her, it really doesn't matter how much you've spent. What matters is how much you've saved. It's twisted, wrong logic, but she clings to it like a booger on a first-grader's finger.
When a package just does happen to come to the house with my name on it, I've got absolutely no shame in puffing out my chest and letting loose with, "Honey, you just won't believe how much money I saved!"
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