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Location: Michigan | ;) It ain't like gettin a new gun in the safe.
Thats relatively simple. Its outta sight & when she see's it and asks "where'd you get that" you just reply, "oh I've had that for years"
A new guitar won't stay in the safe till huntin season.
Thought about having somebody call the house and tell announce that I was the winner in the contest I entered for a new guitar. :D
It isn't like I have 20 & #21 just blends in.
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Location: Tennessee | Use jewelry or other shiny objects as a distraction. Immediately playing and singing a love song with it goes a long long way too.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Take one to the office and tell her you sold it in order to buy the new one. Not that I would ever do something like that myself .... :cool: |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
put your big boy pants on and be done with it. My ex got those in the settlement. |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | Say your just babysitting it for a co-worker. He is having something re-modeled and there are workmen in and out of his place and he wants it some place safe. Then it will slowly just become a guitar that has always been there. Or maybe the co-worker will need some cash in a month or two and you can loan him a few bucks and hold the guitar until he pays you back. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Get her to think it's her idea.
Show her pictures of other members collections so she realizes that it's not you that has a problem.
Run so much techno-babble by her (like deep bowl, shallow bowl, textured, slothead, koa, LX neck features, cross-weave carbon graphite, etc), and wait until she throws up her hands in defeat.
If applicable, refference the number of shoes she has in her closet.
Make yourself sound reasonable by talking about all the money your buddys spend on booze, smokes, snowmobiles and boats.
If you haven't done so already, learn a few songs she likes and play them for her.
Bargain. If push comes to shove offer up jewelery, a weekend away, new washer & dryer, pots & pans, whatever it takes.
Somehow put her in touch with a couple OFC wives who are sympathic to your cause. Or, see if Karen or Alison would drop her a line.
Cry... cry like a baby.
But don't throw a tantrum. (They're on to that one)
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Location: GA USA | According to Gallerinski's method, you have a second Paypal account and when you sell stuff out of the garage, have it build that balance up for the guitar fund. At least I think that's it.
Sell stuff she won't miss, like the washing machine. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Make yourself sound reasonable by talking about all the money your buddys spend on booze, smokes, snowmobiles and boats.
EDIT:... Or, tell her you'll quit smokin' & drinkin' and sell off the snowmobile and the boat. |
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Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming | I usually say that I'll sell another one, but that rarely happens after a half-hearted effort on my part. After a while she just forgets about it. They're investments anyway, and are doing better than my 401K. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | I use the front door, it's wide enough to walk through really easily whilst carrying a guitar case.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've tried everything. Stonebobbo's methods are the only ones that have sort of worked. Sneaking them in only works till she sees the bill and then you just have to face whatever wrath you will face.
I've tried reciprocity and learned that the wife's payback is always more. Women can outspend men by large margins.
Techno babble only prompts the glazed look, which clears up immediately when dollars are mentioned.
Pointing out other larger collections only points out that there are even sicker bastards on this board than you are and how much time you waste here.
Some tricks that might only work once:
"Which do you like better, the red one or the blue one?"
Wife asking, "What do you want for your birthday? (or Christmas or anniversary)" should prompt an immediate response of "do you want me to show you so that you can buy it for me or should I just buy it myself?"
"Look, they make a 30th anniversary edition just in time for our 30th anniversary" worked a couple times for me, but it didn't work on the 25th anniversary. I don't know why. It wasn't a weak moment, because she has none. She must have lost track of the techno babble I gave her about the Ute by the time I bought the 30th CL.
Talking about getting the latest new driver, but buying a guitar instead, worked until my tastes in guitars surpassed the most expensive drivers. Then I still wanted a new driver anyway.
Don't ever promise that this will be the last one for awhile, even a week. As soon as you get it you will find a great deal on a better one.
Wear her down. You might have to wait until the kids have left home, she has a new house and car, you've been to all the places she wants to go and you have nothing left to buy. I hope you live that long.
Finally, tell her that they aren't having the factory tour this fall, so you decided to use the money you saved to buy a new guitar. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Any woman who'll give you shit over buying a guitar ain't worth having around in the first place.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'll tell her you said that. It'll save me the price of a dinner the next time you're in town. |
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Location: CA | My beloved and I made a deal: Every time I get another guitar (or fixer upper car), she gets to get another horse. This is probably the main reason I don't have 20 or 30 guitars like some of you sickos. Of course, even with GAS in regression at the moment, I'm still insanely envious. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Lie. Tell her one of your friends gave it to you. Make sure your friend is in on it. Pick one she's unlikely to meet. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Lie. Tell her one of your friends wants to sell you a guitar cheap. Let her stew on it, and then just bring it home. Lie about the price. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Keep it in plain sight. When she notices, say I've had that for a year now. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Be real nice to her for a week, then tell her what you're going to do, and then tell her your in love with the guitar and bring it home. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Just bring it home, and take the flack. If she loves you, it won't matter. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've found the easiest one, is the be nice to her for a week one. I don't like the lying one but if you gotta ya gotta. |
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Location: GA USA | I've got one of Crimson's guitars now on loan, and Richard is having two sent to me for safekeeping. I had the wooden roundback for a while... There's the "on loan" angle to consider. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Yes... when I told SWMBO about the temporary trade, she gave me a brief quizzical look and then moved on. As long as the number of guitars stayed the same.
My biggest problem is the kids:
"DAD!! You got a new guitar???" I'm working on Nicky since he will be in the same position someday soon. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Get some paperwork with the MSRP for the guitar on it...
Then you can tell her what a great deal you got!
[If you didn't get a great deal... LIE!] |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Explain that you are a grown man, that you deserve to have things that make you happy, and that if she objects, it only goes to prove that she doesn't love you for who you ARE.
Honestly, Gallerinski has it right. Why would any of you marry a woman who would object to you getting a new guitar? I once knew a guy who was a great bluegrass musician. His fiance LOVED his music, and went to all the festivals with him. But after they were married, no more festivals, and she even told him she didn't want him going to all our jam sessions anymore! He stayed with her, but eventually she came around. Myself, I wouldn't have put up with it. ALL of my husbands have been musicians. Sometimes it was "his turn" to get a new guitar, sometimes it was mine.
Maybe you ought to teach them to play. Once they get the bug, you won't have any money for food, but you'll both be happy. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
ALL of my husbands have been musicians. Another great line for a song! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | And the tag line would be, "But I don't want another one anyway". |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Explain that if it came down to a choice between her or the guitars... you'd really miss her. |
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Location: Michigan | Wow
23 responses in less than an hour!
Some pretty good ones.
I waited till I was 37 to get married as I only wanted to do this once, her kids are gone, I do have nads, shes kind of prepped on it anyhow. It will probably just follow me home someday. Don't tell her before I buy most things although....
She still don't know about the guitar and amp I bought that stays at the office from earlier this year.
Lots of good ideas so far, keep em coming.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
it only goes to prove that she doesn't love you for who you ARE.. I think most of the rest of us have heard that line at least once in our lives! :D |
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Location: Agawam MA | I always just tell my wife that it followed me home. Then I say, "can I keep it"? I must have hit the jackpot because she always says "sure".
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Location: south east Michigan | Jokes aside, I like the situation I'm in. We support and encourage each other in our chosen personal passions. She's got all the latest gizmos for scrap-booking and a dedicated area to use them. Any discussion that might sound like asking for permission is really just a check & balance, how's the household budget doing, opinion sharing thing.
When I bought the KoaT her only question was, "Are you going to play it?". That was not meant to veto the deal, just meant to make me stop & think. Which I did. Then I bought the guitar. End of story. |
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| Easier to hide a gun right? Tell her you sold a Gun to pay for a guitar. This always works. Hell, She'll never know what gun it was anyway.
Of course this only works if you have guns, and a Wife that is not into shooting.
In my case I have used this story in the past but recently I did narrow down my hobbies and sold all but the best Over-Under, best Trap, best rifle, and two of my smallest handguns for hiking in the woods. Rest went to the Guns for Guitars program. Well some of it did, the rest went into home improvements.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | CS, you are correct, except that many of our spouses are not musicians. For one reason or another the vast majority of OFC members are male. Do you have any female friends that are obsessed about collecting guitars?
When it comes right down to it, there is no reason to have as many guitars as many of us do. My wife thought I didn't need more than one or two guitars. She was probably right. Need has nothing to do with it. Logic has nothing to do with it. Having what I think I want has everything to do with it. Although Brad's situation is much more reasonable (he doesn't have as many guitars and actually uses them to perform) ours is also a check and balance system. She still asks my opinion on most major purchases and then buys what she wants anyway. We are in the fortunate situation of not having to do without much of anything.
I have also dramatically increased the amount of time that I spend playing since I became obsessed. She appreciates that about as much as I appreciate the time she spends scrapbooking. It's not so much a matter of agreeing with the spouse, it's more a matter of putting up with it. We've been doing that pretty well for 31 years and, like Brad, I like the situation I'm in. We don't hide anything or have to lie, although sometimes we just forget to bring something up. My complaints here are mostly sarcastic. The honest ones are over on the "Spouses Who Snore" forum. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Of course there aren't as many female guitarists as males, but I do know one twelve year old girl who got her first guitar two years ago. (A baby Taylor that someone gave her.) Then she asked for an electric for Christmas, and her folks bought her a Peavey. Then she fell in love with a Cort Les Paul copy I had on the wall, and bought it with babysitting money. The next "had to have" was a really nice Yamaha classical. More babysitting. Now that those (and two amps) are paid off, she has a Celebrity on layaway. Her parents are kind of like a lot of wives I guess. They got her the first two, after that, she has to pay for her own. I'm so proud of her for working so hard to advance her GAS. |
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Location: GA USA | We actually made a bit of progress. She bought a new comforter and pillows for the bedroom, and curtains. Perhaps unconsciously, one of the accent colors is Lusty Red, and the walls match the green on my resonator. Now she's not as resistant to hanging guitars in the bedroom as she was before. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...not that this has anything to do with anything, but, Hey Alison, howzabout some pics of your shop? ;) :cool: |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | I’m in a good situation as far as the wife and money to buy guitars goes. My wife just started guitar lessons and so she is using my old Arbor Sound Port guitar that I have had for about 20 years. Arbor seems to make mostly low end stuff these days. But when I bought this one, I think they were experimenting with higher end guitars. I got it on close out when the experiment failed. Its really a great guitar.
Listening to her practice inspired me to play again and I went out and bought a GC178LX. Good price and I’m very happy with it.
My 12 year old daughter has been playing an old electric no name guitar that I got when I was 12, about 40 years ago. I let her strip off the old finish and do what ever she wanted with it. So now it’s black with red trim. It didn’t come out too bad and it’s good enough for her for now.
So it’s been fun to have a few family jam sessions and practice some songs and rifts.
Money wise, I’m not going to be buying an Adamas anytime soon. But there wouldn’t be anything said if I got another guitar, like maybe one of the Ovation electrics. I’m a retired cop and I have my pension money that is mine to do with as I wish. I work full time for the local public defender office as an investigator, and that money goes into the family account which my wife spends. So the house payment gets made, the food gets bought, and the pension funds nights out, vacations, and a toy now and then.
Life is good. |
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| Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Any woman who'll give you shit over buying a guitar ain't worth having around in the first place.
Dave Exactly !
My wife always likes to see money being spent even when it's for car parts..lol |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | ddr, the family that plays together...
You are doing it right. Not only are you and your wife having fun, but what you are doing for your daughter will last forever. Even if she gives up playing at some time in the future, you are making memories that she will prize into her old age. Keep up the good work! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I totally forgot one of my best ones! Thanks for the reminder. Buy guitars for the kids! I just finally gave the 83 Collector to my 25 year old daughter. I've had the 87 Collector longer. My 21 year old daughter willingly collaborated on the story that I was buying it for her. She will get it when she turns 25 in a few years. I also bought an Applause travel guitar for our oldest, a Celebrity Deluxe for our youngest and a Monterrey (Kaman product) for her boyfriend. GAS attacks work for gifts, too. I've enjoyed the searches, negotiations, trial periods, polishing, minor repairing and restringing of all those gifts. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Paulcc1:
Shoot her in the foot that should keep her quiet. Is that like when you get up in the middle of the night with a headache and on your way for some pain pills you stub your toe and forget all about your headache? |
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Location: Central New Jersey | I told her that a business associate owed me a commission check and his business wasn't doing well so he offered me a guitar instead...I guess all those little stories caught up to me because shortly after that incident, we separated. Now with my current wife I just stick to the truth. I have less guitars but I don't have to worry about remembering my little plots. |
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Location: Central New Jersey | BTW- This is a great thread. My wife heard me laughing and she wanted to know what I was laughing about. I can't tell her, I might need to use some of these in the near future...lol |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Buy guitars for the kids! BINGO!!! G-babies in my case... My bride has had no issues with my ultimate plan. I hope to live long enough for them to claim 'em! If not, then they'll get 'em anyway.
I couldn't have gotten away with my devious plan just a few years ago... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Have ups deliver it when she's not home.
Not that she really cares but I hate that "Oh, ANOTHER guitar? look. I say it's to replace the one that Davis is borrowing because he'll never give it back, She gives that "you gave him another guitar?" look.
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
She appreciates that about as much as I appreciate the time she spends scrapbooking. Oh we gotta get these two together. When I have encouraged Pam to come to an OFC thing she thinks she is gonna be bored stiff. She has said, "Well, maybe I can being my scrapbook stuff along for something to do". |
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| In answer to the original question - marry a woman who appreciates you and loves you for your quirks, and not in spite of them. Took me 2 tries. |
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| Beal; perhaps you'd like to change up the name from time to time so she does not hold a grudge against Dave.
I'll give you my address.
Start using "Randy" |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I've got one of Crimson's guitars now on loan, and Richard is having two sent to me for safekeeping. I had the wooden roundback for a while... There's the "on loan" angle to consider. Now is a good time to sneak in a new one Captain. While your surrounded by loaners, she'll think its another one of them. When the others go "home" she'll be so glad of the extra space she won't notice the extra one. |
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Location: North Carolina | First of all, Lay the groundwork by paying the bills so she's less likely to see two thousand dollar charge. Have it delivered to the UPS store, not your house. Make sure the number they have to notify you it's arrived is your cell, not your home. Go get it while she's out. GET RID of the box. Sand the case in various places to make it look old. Be sure the new guitar is similar in color to one of your present guitars.
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Location: North Carolina | Actually, kidding aside, the UPS store is a great way to receive an instrument. There is a nominal charge for this, but you don't have to worry about being home when the truck comes, or what the driver is likely to do if you're not.
I recently had a delayed delivery of an item because the street on which I live ends in "Trail" The idiot (non-UPS) driver couldn't find a trailer, so he didn't make delivery. Took about four days to get that sorted out. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I guess this is one of the times where being single has an advantage over being married. I don't have a husband who thinks I've gone off the deep end with the guitars--but my kids sure do! But, there will be one for each grandchild, way down the road, and still leave one or two for me, too.
And I was like the wife Alison referred to; I didn't like Jack's music for quite awhile, but once I started playing it, I got hooked, too--Jack may be gone, but I am still playing bluegrass. (And "Roses in the Snow" is my signature song, now, instead of his.)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not having to pay the bills is worth the small amount of grief I get when I buy a guitar. I don't have my own checkbook and don't generally know if we have enough in the checking account to pay for any significant expenditures.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Treat her to something with her friends away from the house, anything, but just make some time for yourself alone at home. The rest is easy. I also keep the bandroom locked, the key hidden, and rewired all the switches so even if she should make it past the door, she'll need a flashlight, all of which have also been hidden. There's so much stuff in there now that she has lost total track of what is old and what is new. Also, if she should somehow discover something new, I just show her all the off-shore lookalike models on eBay and give her a couple hundred dollars to make up for it. Seriously, I think she knows, but she has her own purchasing vices that she'd rather I not know about, and of course I do know about them, so the less said the better peace is kept. |
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Location: Michigan | I'm pretty well in the clear for the next one. She already knows I want it & i'm saving for it. A little b'day money, a rebate check from another purchase, I recently did a paint job on a G & L strat body for a guy on the BRB board and its all gone into the GAS slush fund along with a few bucks here and there.
I pay the mortgage & most bills with my money.
She has her personal bills & takes care of the household stuf & we each have our own checking accounts, nothing jointly & it works out pretty well.
The next one will be # 3 and I'm thinking I would be happy with a total of 5 guitars but that could be blown to hell when I get there.
I'm just looking down the road at those other purchases.
I may need to give up a few guns that I don't use anymore but those aren't going down in value, most are worth 400-500% of what I paid.
I can always remind her she got me the first one.
This wasn't a problem till I started hanging out here. :rolleyes: :confused:
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| Originally posted by AussieJames:
Aint it great when you don't have to worry about keeping anyone happy!!
Front door works just fine.
AJ and an old Hagstrom will soon be coming through it... arrived unstrung, and with the bridge rattling around in the original case, looks like someone stored it on top of an old coiled cord in the case for a while tho... ate up the lacquer quite a bit on the backside... I'll string it up today, and let you know how it sounds... I'll get it over to Oliver's for shipment in a day or two... depends on how good it plays/sounds :D
Glad I could help Jim!
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | I must just be lucky..
As long as the bills are paid and there's money in the bank, and I can pay cash, I can buy whatever I want. The same thing goes for her. If she goes to Kohl's and buys a bunch of clothes, it doesn't bother me as long as she can still handle her responsibilities. For the most part, my gig money is my toy money.. So the more I gig, the more toys I can buy. But for the rest of you, I think the investment angle is the most sound. My wife knows that, for the most part, "our" collection is a better investment than just about anything out there. After getting our clock cleaned with bad IRAs, she see's the value for this type of resource. |
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Whats the best way to get a new guitar in the house ?