calistyle
Active member
A few ways to get higher approval on budget and making it feel like it's her idea.
No cheating (lying) but you have to play hard here and be creative.
Start with spending your budget on only items that are important to you, ones she'd never approve outside of the budget.
The you fall back on the items she requested:
* Wife wants more bracing inside the stand
"Great pt here beautiful, definitely want to protect our home/kids/animals from a possible $20-30K dollar disaster. However, I'm comfortable with the current bracing so we can stay within our budget."
She will approve this add-on request without counting against your budget and if you're as smooth as you sound, you'll get some additional $$ out of it to use on something else.
* Figure some way to get flow at the front of the tank without a magnet on the tank being the first thing you see when you walk in my frond door
Pretty sure you mentioned in another comment that this is a wifey requirement.
Buttercup, your budget master has came through again, I found these amazing pumps that are extremely cheap and move a lot of water. We'll only need 4 of them, one in each corner and each have a pretty decent footprint of 6 inches inside the tank
Assuming you get approval on any of these upgrades, you need to find very expensive options, to make your actual request look acceptable. Or if you get approval on new costs, find used and use that extra money on other smaller items.
Good luck!
No cheating (lying) but you have to play hard here and be creative.
Start with spending your budget on only items that are important to you, ones she'd never approve outside of the budget.
The you fall back on the items she requested:
* Wife wants more bracing inside the stand
"Great pt here beautiful, definitely want to protect our home/kids/animals from a possible $20-30K dollar disaster. However, I'm comfortable with the current bracing so we can stay within our budget."
She will approve this add-on request without counting against your budget and if you're as smooth as you sound, you'll get some additional $$ out of it to use on something else.
* Figure some way to get flow at the front of the tank without a magnet on the tank being the first thing you see when you walk in my frond door
Pretty sure you mentioned in another comment that this is a wifey requirement.
Buttercup, your budget master has came through again, I found these amazing pumps that are extremely cheap and move a lot of water. We'll only need 4 of them, one in each corner and each have a pretty decent footprint of 6 inches inside the tank
Assuming you get approval on any of these upgrades, you need to find very expensive options, to make your actual request look acceptable. Or if you get approval on new costs, find used and use that extra money on other smaller items.
Good luck!
