"It only Seeeeeeems like I'm lying to you ... you have it all wrong"

After he came back from the Gilroy outlets:

"What did you buy me?" ;-)D

"We didn't buy anything."

However, later, the mostly-empty laundry basket reveals:

So, this means that ... my eyes and ears deceive me ... according to what he'd like me to believe.
He would like me to believe that red equals white, and that what I'm seeing is not real (?).