Is there a service that can stand in for me when my wife just wants to argue but doesn't really have a specific topic?
Do you take off trim when you paint? I dislike that so I always paint with it on. Generally the wife will say she wants to paint such and such. Then she will go buy the stuff and tell me to do it or finish a 5’X5’ square in an hour or so and know it drives me crazy and I will just do it. I have my system that seems slow starting but when I get to the main part it flys.
As a big fan of Downton Abbey, I can definitely imagine having an entire fleet of help in the castle. But that's a pipe dream......I'd settle for a good cleaning person. The vixen always uses the adjective "thoroughly" before the word cleaning, so it would have to be someone with great attention to detail.
Cleaning bathrooms and kitchens is life changing for me. Scrubbing toilets and stove tops is the worst.
I would love to be Lady Mary, for sure. But one thing I learned from that show is that most of the maids and/or lady's maids are not trustworthy!
Have one, when I tried, the nails pulled through parially and then the trim was loose in some areas or stuck out since the nails "heads" were stuck in those spots. Less work and issues if I just trim carefully around.TIP: If you have a little wonder bar, just pry the trim up a bit off the wall so you can get your brush behind it. Then tap the trim back into place when the paint's dry.
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I see you more as Lady Sybil. Mary was such a b*tch!
Is there a service that can stand in for me when my wife just wants to argue but doesn't really have a specific topic?
This makes me think of all those home buying shows on HGTV. These people have 2 kids and want 5,000 sq ft. with 5 bedrooms & 4 bathrooms and all I can think is how in the world are they going to keep it clean.As a big fan of Downton Abbey, I can definitely imagine having an entire fleet of help in the castle. But that's a pipe dream......I'd settle for a good cleaning person. The vixen always uses the adjective "thoroughly" before the word cleaning, so it would have to be someone with great attention to detail.
Yep its called the second husband, because I've learned that, at least my wife, doesn't really argue the topic she is upset about so its a detective tail to figure out what she really is ticked about. Although I have learned over the years that the reason is generally my existence.
I mean, the way you talk on here, I have NO idea.
I did such a bad job the first time I painted for my wife that she always does it without complaining. Unfortunately I had already done a good job washing the dishes so I couldn't apply the new found knowledge to that.Man, I hate painting. We had to do a bunch on our previous house when we moved - the ceiling can go ahead and bite a ****.
5-6k for a nice pickup blade will make life easier. Push it out of the way, plug in the tractor and blow it out when you get home.I would appreciate someone cleaning off my farm yard when it snows. As I get older I dislike getting up in the dark, walking to the machine shed, hoping the tractor will start, start the tractor, let it warm up for 20 minutes, scoop open the machine shed doors, blowing the snow hoping no sheer bolts break, quickly close everything up again, take a shower, and take off for work to be there before 8.
However, it can be a fun job on a beautiful weekend afternoon, listening to the cyclone men's basketball game...well that used to be fun as well before Prohm.
Great now I'm thinking about Prohm again...thanks Angie.
Being blunt has never been one of my weak points. I'm not the person you look to when you want to be coddled. I get ticked when someone won't just tell me what I did wrong and try to politely dance around what I screwed up. Just tell me, this was a stupid decision and led to a terrible outcome because of this. I will learn and move on. Don't waste our time saying well, maybe if you tweaked this or made a minor change here; get to the darn point and save my time; and definitely don't labor on what I did right because if you don't tell me it was wrong I damn well know I did it right then. I'm not Mr. Warm and Fuzzy if you can't tell.