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I can think of several precautions that I take: 1.) Always wear aftershave! I've got maybe 20 little bottles in the medicine cabinet and after every shower I pick one and put a little dab here and a little dab there. I rotate the fragrances often sometimes wearing two or three different kinds per day. That way if I come home smelling like my favoritas brand my SO doesn't notice. You can also give your monger friends cologne sets for Christmas just to see their faces when they open their gift in front of their family. 2.) Make a regular habit of dropping off clothes at the cleaners so it's not unusual for you to have either dirty clothes or clean clothes in your car. 3.) At work:
a.) Work rotating shifts if you can so that your SO's not exactly sure what time you're working on any given day.
b.) Never answer your phone. Make people leave messages then call them back later. Your SO will eventually stop calling you in your office.
c.) Don't make a habit of calling your wife from the office.
d.) Take a job where you travel a lot. 4.) In your favorite TJ hotel:
a.) Bring a clean pair of clothes to change into after your last shower for the day. Leave your TJ outfit in your car and bring it to the cleaners the next day.
b.) Bring your own soap and make sure it's the kind you use at home.
c.) Treat yourself to NIX during your last shower. Give yourself your second treatment in the office showers. 5.) In your car:
a.) Always buy used cars so that if your SO finds a parking stub or someone's used underwear in your glove box you can claim that it must have already been there when you purchased the vehicle.
b.) Rotate a variety of scented Christmas tree style air fresheners from your rear view mirror.
c.) Buy a car with manual transmission. My SO drives an automatic and since she doesn't even know how to drive a stick shift she doesn't even keep a key to my car. This makes it real easy to hide stuff in your car if you need to.
d.) Take the bus or train to work every once in a while (or carpool with a monger friend) so that it's not unusual for your car to be at home while you are at work. Parking at the airport can get expensive. 6.) Financing:
a.) Have a monger credit card and ATM card that you keep in your office and have the statements send to a post office box.
b.) Have your payroll department put a set amount directly into your monger checking account every paycheck and then direct deposit the rest into your real checking account. This way I don't care how much money my SO spends as long as she keeps it in the black. Also, I'll still have my monger money in case my SO and I get into a situation where we're pinching pennies.
c.) Make sure your monger account doesn't earn any interest (you'd get maybe 1% at most) so you don't get a tax document from them.
d.) Make sure you are the one who does your taxes; or you're the one who deals with your accountant.
e.) Learn where the office keeps their paper shredder.
f.) Make sure that if you work work with a monger buddy that you both handle finances the same way. For example, my yearly raise takes effect on September 1st , but my SO thinks it's the 1st of January. Maybe this should go in the Discus Forum. The Senator
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