I had a good bitch fest with Hubby this afternoon. He was asking me if he could take his entire paycheck next week to purchase more bike parts. Um…hell no!

Ok the deal is I’m not exactly thrilled about having to spend so much cash right now to put the bike back together. I’m definitely not thrilled that he’s worked out a payment plan with the friend who wrecked it.

I don’t think Hubby really realizes how much cash I’ve dumped into the bike over the last couple months. I keep giving him the number, and he says no it’s not that much. Well today I sat down with him, pulled out all my receipts and added them up 1 at a time in front of him. Including the tools he’s purchased that he didn’t already have the total came up to a little over $1600. Of course since the bike is already broken down he decided to put in a jet kit. That I don’t mind, but now he wants a custom pipe as well. I’m all for the pipe, and I’ve wanted a Two Brother’s M5 for awhile, but that doesn’t mean we can afford it right now. I told him to wait until we get paid back for all this, but of course he pitched a hissy fit.

He has no problem throwing out the cash to do all this, but then when we need to do something that’s going to cost a lot he complains. I’ve soldered his glasses back together 4 times now because he says we can’t afford for him to buy a new pair…a pair of glasses that cost $200…I think if we can spend $1600 on the bike we can spend $200 on glasses. When I mentioned Lasik to him, no way. He’s not spending that much cash for a surgery. Well that $1600 would have just about covered the whole surgery.

I guess we just look at things differently. He’d rather pour his cash into fun things while I’d rather spend it on things we really need…like our health and paying off our debts. I hope he realizes this is the last time he’ll be doing this. That new bike he wanted to get next year? Not going to happen. As payments come in from the friend, I’m using that money to pay this bike off. If this one was paid for we wouldn’t even be sinking money into fixing it in the first place.