I don't have to hide it any more. My husband encourages me to get stuff & often even buys it for me!! LOL! I used to hide it though when I first started quilting & was building my stash! I used to put it all in grocery bags & stuff it under my recliner. When we moved out of that home, I had to pull it all out & he was horrified!! LOL! He couldn't believe how many bags I pulled out from under there! :-) Yup, I was busted!!

I don't hide things from my hubby either. He buys his tools and stuff and I buy my fabric.

I buy fabric. DH buys wood (woodworker). Neither of us care what the other buys since we only co-mingle finances for the household expenses and the rest of our spending is our own.

I was thinking this as well. I would consult my husband about anything political in our yard. It is because I have to ask him for permission, but since it is a yard that we all have...it seems only right that we both decide about something as obvious as a sign.

In our case, since we are foreigners living here, we actually didn't put the sign in our yard, exactly, but let them hang it on the garden fence, which is actually the other side of the road from our house (we have two pieces of land, split by a road).

No,,, I never hide anything I buy... My DH knew I was a quilter and he saw my sewing room before we married. Only time we hide anything is at Christmas and birthdays.

I don't hide. My husband is sometimes kinda smart about the fabric I buy. When I get a package in the mail, he comes through the door and throws it in my lap. Not so nicely either. I am paying for fabric I want with the money from fabric I sold. He buys all these stupid guns that he never uses so, I don't cut him any slack. I will buy what I want, when I want, just like he does. I have to fill out the paperwork when he buys those guns so technically, they belong to me!:p

Fayzer, I hear you on that one.lol

bear, my answer is the same as yours...NOW.
What's surprising to me is how, almost unanimous are the answers on this thread.
I think those that don't hide believe that those that do are immoral.
Not alway so!
At one time in my life,
(after a lifetime of never putting myself first in anything),
I had a LOT of stuff going on and had become not a new sewer,
but a new quilter.
With sewing you buy for the current garment or such.
With quilting you need a variety of fabrics and it opened a door...to shove the
stress of my life.
Somehow my newfound hobby became a vicious cycle of
stress reliever/stress producer.
I wasn't "sinning" and I have never been a bad person.
I just had more on my plate than I could handle and thought fabric shopping was an
answer.
This got all tangled up with my dreams for projects/gifts for my family etc.
Yes, I needed professional help with the 'real' problems and eventually I stopped
turning to shopping as a "fix".
I loved the video, but a problem like this is not funny. It made me cry and
depressed and broke sometimes.
It also kept me from being able to create :shock:
Don't judge ppl that lose control.
We are all doing something to excess,
whether eating, smoking, gossiping, swearing, not cleaning, driving
too fast...I bet we all fit into one of those categories,...or maybe two
at times? :p
P.S. Yes, I am fully recovered and haven't been in a fabric store
in ages. I don't slobber over catalogs anymore and I don't daydream
about my next excursion. I will say, my hubby knows about everything
I have and I know that his garage holds more (in value), than anything
I've ever owned, so no residual guilt problems either :thumbup:

As several others have said in earlier discussion of this subject, I wonder what it means that "her husband lets" her? Is she a child to be given permission by the lord and master of the house? The last of the "lord and master" laws in the United States was not repealed until some time in the late 1970's, so I suppose the idea of "letting" someone buy fabric, have a puppy or kitten or anything else should not surprise me.

I wonder how many articles in Popular Mechanics or Field and Stream are devoted to helping husbands "hide" their purchases from their wives

Come on, Women. We are more than 15 yrs into the 21st Century in the United States of America! Let's hear you roar! froggyintexas

One does what one needs to do to get what one wants.