about how all those firearms showed up in the gun safe (before the avalanche took them all a few years back.) I worked at Cabela's for a few years before moving up to CO. Cabela's would let you put firearms on layaway back then, not sure if they now. So I'd put one on layaway and put down some random amount over the next few months every week or two, such as $49.30 or $95. 93. She never questioned the money I spent in the store, as I was always bringing something home.
Ended up doing this a number of times while I worked there and probably brought home over 20 firearms in all. She did know about 4 or 5 that I told her about upfront. I had them hidden all over the house as I didn't have the gun safe yet. When I did get the gun safe it went straight into a storage locker as we were getting ready to move in about a month or so.
It was quite a trick to load up all of the firearms into the moving truck (which we rented and I drove) without her questioning me. I did have about 10 firearms before working at Cabela's and she did ask me once while loading that she thought I had already loaded them. I just told her I had to take them out to fit something else in. They were all in hard cases so she never knew what was in the cases. Same thing once we got set up in the new house.
The guilt had been killing me for years (kinda) as she had noticed one or two that she was sure she had never seen before. I would just tell her that I've had that one for a number of year, not really a lie most of the time. So when I finally came clean I expected my dear sweet wife to rip my head off. She just rolled her eyes a bit and basically said nothing. I think she figured that enough time has passed that there was no sense in getting mad.
I'm pretty sure she still loves me after my confession. I have woken up every morning since telling her still breathing and no new holes in my body. I think she's a keeper after being married for over 30 years now. I don't have the energy now a days to even think of starting over and training a new wife.