BIRTHDAY BOY

I find that tracking sawdust into the house keeps her plenty busy sweeping and complaining…and out of the shop!

BTW…Happy Birthday!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Happy birthday! You’re about a month ahead of me, same year.

-- Eric at http://adventuresinwoodworking.com

Hi Andy,

Good luck on preventing your wife from storing things in YOUR space. After 31 years I have given up trying to change my wife. Like yours she seems to think that anytime she needs to move something out of the house, my shop is the most logical place to store it. Like Dadoo I get yelled at for bringing sawdust into the finished part of the basement. But this only gives her an excuse to go through the shop and rearrange everything to “make it more organized”. But then, of course, I can’t get to anything once she is finished.

So good luck on keeping your shop space open so that you can work in it. If you find a way to keep your wife out of it let me know I would be interested in that as well. :)

By the way Happy Birthday.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I just built my husband his own storage shed, problem solved. :)

-- Berta in NC

Happy birthday Andy!

And put a lock on the door lol

Hope you have a gerat day

Callum

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Happy Birthday and good luck.

-- If we learn from our mistakes, I'm getting a fantastic education.

I sorta remember 39????? Been a while. Happy birthday!!

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Happy Birthday.

Problem: needed space for storage
Solution: an additional storage space.

Problem: needing an excuse to check out the workshop
Solution: invite her in to make things with you.

Problem: angry about the private workshop space
Solution: a private workspace for her as well.

(Personally I like the idea of having her build things with you—gives you something to do together AND gives her an understanding of why you need the space cleared of household storage.)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I have a door from the kitchen to the garage (shop). My wife used to throw things out the door into my shop. Empty boxes, bags of books, my sons school stuff, you name it. One day as she did it I gathered it and waited for her to go to the store then put it all in her very own dedicated sewing room. This room that is her pride and joy. She’s not stupid, so there was not a lot of explaining to do. If anything goes into the garage now we decuss it first and I have veto power !!! She can find room for it in the house or throw it away.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???

happy birthday,just had my 35th a couple weeks ago. the shed was a great idea and worked well for me. as for my wife coming in the shop that is not a problem for me she hates loud noise,and if it isn’t a tool running it’s the radio.

-- Roper - master of sawdust-

Happy (how many 39ers have you had?) Birthday. I agree with ?????????

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

I like changing the locks.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

If you get the wife thing figured out, POST A BLOG!... let the rest of us know… lol.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Happy birthday!

Unknownwoodworker thinks like I do. Next time she puts something in the shop, go stack some of your lumber in the living room.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

thanks everyone and about the wife thing bringing in timber is not an option lol

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Happy Birthday,
After using the Living room as a workshop for five years in my last condo, My understanding wife can put anything in the garage she wants. She, being smart, keep stuff out of the garage so my woodworking would stay in the garage at this house. Happy Marriage :)

-- Thuan

Happy Birthday. The unfinished basement is her dumping place and the shop is going to be my area. Very understanding wife!

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Happy b day pommy—is mine too tho I fear I’ve had a few more than you . . .

-- Fred, Springfield, Ma

My wife and I came to an understanding many moons ago about this. Her kitchen is a shop, basically, with lots of power tools where she creates things to eat several times a day.

We both understand the difference and the sameness and wouldn’t think of cluttering the other’s shop.

-- Ron, Bakersfield, CA. Measure twice, cut twice anyway.

[plane a board in the kitchen and see howshe likes it.

-- making sawdust....

Easy pommy don’t let them in, you only need one key.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

What wife???

-- Earle Wright, Lenoir City, Tennessee

Happy Birthday!!!

Thankfully, I have the greatest wife in the world. She let me build a 40×60 dedicated shop. She has the 2 car garage, except for the motorcycle, which I am putting up for sale in the morning.

-- Anchul - Warrensburg, MO: As a Pastor, I am just trying to get closer to Jesus. He was a woodworker too.

Happy Birthday!

Well, you finally caught up to Jack Benny!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=1389"

Happy Birthday, Pommy!

-- North Texas

Hapy Birthday Pommy. Real easy. I just built a large addition to my home, and the new basement (24’ x 36’) is MINE ALL MINE!

Vinman