Honey Doooooos!!!

I sympathize. Although this might be more appropriate for the For Men Only thread, I beleve my wife looks at me like the climbers look at Mount Everest. Not because I am majestic or tall or anthing like that. The answer the climbers of Everest give to the question "why do you climb it" is "because it is there." The answer my wife gives to why I need to "do this now" is simply because "I am there", that is, in the recliner watching a good baseballl game.

TW344

Hey don't move this to the mens only site. As a woman we get our lists as well. My husband stands before me this last saturday with a new surond sound system that I end up hooking up including running the "invisible wires" Why did I get that job because I was foolish enough to remind him to read the directions so he said "Well honey, then you do it" Gott love a challenge

allaboutbaseball, I had to laugh at your post. One of my Honey DOOOs was hooking up the DVD Player to the TV. Did I read instructions? NOPE! I think I could have done it in half of the time had I been smart enought to do so! LOL!

Real Men need no Instruction's.

Just repair kit's.

And we alway's end up with extra part's leftover. EH

Hey EH--Don't forget the duct tape. My husband uses it on almost every project around our house!

My wife is a school principal, so she is home all day for a month or two every summer. For the first couple of weeks everything is fine, but after a month of brainwashing by HGTV and alike, she decides that something is wrong with our house.

Case in point: Last month I come home from work on a Tuesday evening to find my beloved wife standing in what used to be our master bathroom. She saw a D-I-Y show where a woman re-vamped her bathroom by installing new wall covering. The woman on the show had removed all of the old wallpaper with a putty knife and some chemical she purchased from Home Depot. My wife thought it looked easy enough on TV, so she went to Home Depot and bought the same stuff, plus two pedestal sinks to replace the existing vanity.

I came home to find my wife had not only pulled off most of the wall covering, but the paper off of the face of the sheetrock as well. She said that it looked much easier on TV and that her wallpaper came off in small “chunks”, rather than in big sheets like it did on the show. She said that she tried to take the mirror down off of the wall, but it was too heavy and that she would need my help to disconnect the sinks and remove the cabinet so “she “ could install the new pedestal sinks.

After I finished having my heart attack, I spent the next three nights and most of the day Saturday finishing her bathroom renovation. I had to completely float the walls because she pulled the paper off of the sheetrock, install new wall covering (with a pattern I might add), demo the vanity and old sinks, install new floor tile to match the existing since she didn’t realize that the floor tile didn’t run underneath the vanity cabinet, relocate the drain and waterlines in the wall so that they would match up to the new sinks, install a tile wainscot behind the new sinks, install the sinks themselves and re-hang the mirror. Four days, one sore back and $1,600 later, my wife’s bathroom facelift project was completed.

HGTV will either drive me into bankruptcy, divorce court or an early grave.

Hey i agree with your wife they do make it look easy on the TV. Everytime I watch one of those shows my husband hides the car keys so that I cannot leave the house with the intention of visiting Home Depot

BBfam ...

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Don't forget the duct tape. My husband uses it on almost every project around our house!

And it comes in lots of colors now, too, so that makes it even handier. And if all else fails, get the clear. (There was a show on HGTV the other day where a very macho kind of guy showed the hostess all the fun crafts that could be made with colorful duct tape.)

theEH ...

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Real Men need no Instruction's.

Just like they don't need maps ???? Too bad they don't have a talking GPS for home improvements ... and if it were in a woman's voice with some editorial comments along the way, most men would be able to fully understand them, right?

We just finished remodeling our guest bath ... took a month for a licensed contractor to complete an 8 day job. Between his idiocy and delays and my walking pneumonia, this was not a fun place to be. Wish my husband had had the time to do the tile work 'cause he is a wonderful handyman (built a full storage closet where our old furnace closet used to be with bifold doors and everything). So men, don't give up on your wives' requests ... we really do appreciate all the hard work no matter how well or poorly we express the appreciation.

CoachB25:

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Originally posted by CoachB25:
GUESS WHAT? YUP, my Wife came home, viewed the completed projects, and laid carpet and flooring down right in front of the TV so that we can now RE-DO THE ENTIRE HOUSE!

She's really piling it on!

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WHY ME?

Because you're there!