I feel like everyone posting here will soon look like coffee-fanatics….
Ultimate Marriage Test
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Gerald Martin
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It’s been a year since my wife and I finished up our third home build together in twenty years. We have done the majority of work on all three by ourselves.
Suffice to say we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other along the way.
I am pretty sure if we ever move again we will be buying instead of building.
I think almost everyone underestimates how much stress is involved in planning, materials procurement and bringing a build to completion.
Men, there is no color in the world that means more to you than it does to your wife.
I wouldn’t have wanted to go through the process with any other woman, but I don’t think we want to go through the home building process again anytime soon…
Having said that, we still have a shop/garage to build next summer. I plan to give her ideas more consideration this time around.
OntarioHunter
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If you enjoy stress, buy a home built a hundred years ago and "upgrade" it. Sometimes I wonder if those old guys ever saw a carpenter's square!!It’s been a year since my wife and I finished up our third home build together in twenty years. We have done the majority of work on all three by ourselves.
Suffice to say we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other along the way.
I am pretty sure if we ever move again we will be buying instead of building.
I think almost everyone underestimates how much stress is involved in planning, materials procurement and bringing a build to completion.
Men, there is no color in the world that means more to you than it does to your wife.
I wouldn’t have wanted to go through the process with any other woman, but I don’t think we want to go through the home building process again anytime soon…
Having said that, we still have a shop/garage to build next summer. I plan to give her ideas more consideration this time around.
PaulRevere
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Installing a new garbage disposal. 
Gerald Martin
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I did just that professionally for eight months. There were four additions cobbled together over about 50 years.
Frosty the snowman would venture into the hot place without sunscreen before I would attempt that with my family…
KB_
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its been 13 years, 3 children, and many moves from Michigan to North Carolina, North Carolina to Michigan, Michigan to Montana. Built one house together ourselves. Have been completely broke living paycheck to paycheck, to financially secure together.
Biggest pain point is the ongoing argument to get a vasectomy.
Biggest pain point is the ongoing argument to get a vasectomy.
its been 13 years, 3 children, and many moves from Michigan to North Carolina, North Carolina to Michigan, Michigan to Montana. Built one house together ourselves. Have been completely broke living paycheck to paycheck, to financially secure together.
Biggest pain point is the ongoing argument to get a vasectomy.
My wife is on me about that too….. I don’t have much to work with already in that department so I’m afraid of anything going wrong.
Gellar
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We were going to build a shed this summer. But after building our house 2 years ago and still working on landscaping and minor things I'm not ready mentally for that shed business.It’s been a year since my wife and I finished up our third home build together in twenty years. We have done the majority of work on all three by ourselves.
Suffice to say we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other along the way.
I am pretty sure if we ever move again we will be buying instead of building.
I think almost everyone underestimates how much stress is involved in planning, materials procurement and bringing a build to completion.
Men, there is no color in the world that means more to you than it does to your wife.
I wouldn’t have wanted to go through the process with any other woman, but I don’t think we want to go through the home building process again anytime soon…
Having said that, we still have a shop/garage to build next summer. I plan to give her ideas more consideration this time around.
BackofBeyond
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I'd love to see the look on your face when an actual ambulance shows up...
Pucky Freak
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Anytime an attractive female coworker gets mentioned.
Me: Hey, Chelsi at work got promoted to manager.
W: Which Chelsi? The cute one with the red hair?
Me: Um, yeah the one with red hair.
W: What, did she call you first, gushing with the news!?
Me: Ah, no…but,
W: What’s the point in you telling me this, anyways!?
Me: Er, to tell you she will be moving to a different department.
W: Right. I’m sure that’s what you were thinking all along!
Me: Hey, Chelsi at work got promoted to manager.
W: Which Chelsi? The cute one with the red hair?
Me: Um, yeah the one with red hair.
W: What, did she call you first, gushing with the news!?
Me: Ah, no…but,
W: What’s the point in you telling me this, anyways!?
Me: Er, to tell you she will be moving to a different department.
W: Right. I’m sure that’s what you were thinking all along!
noharleyyet
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Handyman status confirmed...
KB_
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KB_
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I told her to take a look at what happened to her Weiner dog. I cant take that chance.
Wallydeuce
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Cowards!
Gotta wait five minutes bro…And then sitting there in the room and wondering if you should put the sample in the collection door or wait a little bit because you worry it might have been too fast
44hunter45
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I was accused of being a unicorn with a one track mind in High School....
