"You Lied, Lied, Lied, Lied, You Lied to Your Daddy"

It could be considered sad, and bad, that for over 40 or so years I have “lied” countless times to my husband. It has to do with only one thing…the actual cost of purchased items. My husband is a very frugal person, which is fine; but he cannot understand that things cost what they cost. Since he will never understand this, I have to pretend that the purchase was a better deal than it was, even if it was a really good deal in the first place, just so he will feel okay about it. For example, I recently found a beautiful hand-blown bowl that was originally $500 that was marked down to $310. I don’t know why I did it, but I told him it was $250. He loves that bowl, and I know he loves it even more so because of the pretend $60 discount I told him about. Also, I purchased a $60 shirt for him at Christmas that was on sale for around $20, and I ended up telling him it cost $15. In recent years I don’t have to tell him the cost of things that often any more so I do feel better when I don’t have to tell these little “white lies.” It does make me wonder, though, whether he is telling me a little lie every now and then.