Can a woman have too many bags?

Tubby Hubby (TH) thinks we are living in imminent danger of a bag avalanche. When we moved, I gave away more than 20 bags, ranging from dinky purses to huge luggage. It made TH happy... for a while.

Ever since we set up home in Hong Kong, I've been going crazy buying bags from Salvation Army. I just can't resist them and besides, they're all below S$10 so it's not as if I'm blowing the entire household money on fripperies.

Only thing is, I have a LeSportSac hobo that I really, really like and that's the only one I use all the time. So TH has been on my case to give away the others. "Can't," I told him. "I'm starting a bag collection that some day, some museum somewhere would give their eye-teeth to display."

A pretty good explanation, wouldn't you say? Pity it hasn't stopped TH for imposing a bag ban. I need to find something new to collect now.

Don't tell me what to do!

Tubby Hubby (TH) always says I irritate him by telling him to do something he was going to do anyway. Like: "Go wash up" when he's already at the sink.

And he hates it when I say: "Be careful when you cross the road". "No, I'm going to walk in front of a bus just for fun," he usually retorts.

So when we got a special deal of 500 free minutes of overseas calls (but only if you dial a certain code), I told him the code and left him to his own devices. I wasn't about to remind him: "Must dial 0060 aah" everytime he picked up the phone. After all, as he keeps telling me, he is a fully-functioning adult.

And guess what happened? We ended up with a S$400 bill for overseas calls. Without me nagging him, TH just blithely dialled his usual 001.

I don't care what he says. He's going to be nagged to death from now. Think I better call him now to remind him to look left and right before crossing the road...