I have a friend who would put all new fabric purchases in a storage closet in her garage because her husband would get huffy if he saw her bringing more fabric into the house. Later in the evening, she would get some of the new fabric out of the garage and bring it in. If he saw that fabric and asked if it was new, she'd say, "Oh, no. This is some stuff that's been in the closet for a while." He never caught on.