1. You have a box of “work” clothes in your closet
2. Your dish-soap is smeared with car grease, and you sometimes
find it in the shower with a washcloth that
will likely never come clean again.
3. You think about hiring work out- until you see the price tag.
The cost to do the job yourself is always
considerably less, even with the purchase of the specialized tool to get it done.
considerably less, even with the purchase of the specialized tool to get it done.
4. You have a garage full of random, specialized tools.
5. You are happy you have room to actually park in your garage,
even if you have to shimmy.
6. You have items at your home like a Rocket Candy Launcher and
a 27’ movie screen complete with a
pulley system to hang off the back of your
house.
7. You find drill bits and screws in the washing machine…and everywhere
else.
8. Your husband rarely reads the instructions, and that’s OK.
9. You have put your kids to bed to the sound of a
paint-sprayer, tile saw, or sander.
10. You have to ask your husband to consider NOT using the table
saw after 10pm.
11. Your husband has a part-time “job” repairing things for
family and neighbors.
12. The fumes of spray-paint, polyurethane, and glue are,
unfortunately, not unfamiliar.
13. You’ve had experience wiping sawdust and drywall powder off
of EVERY SURFACE in your house!
14. Each time you hold his calloused hands you find a new nick.
15. When out on a date, he asks things like, “How many furnaces
do you think this place has?”
16. Looking at your kitchen ceiling makes you smile, because you
remember all the time he spent sanding,
patching, and painting it.
17. Despite the repeated reminder “change your clothes first!”- His
shirts, pants, and shoes have a limited
life-span before joining the box of
“work clothes” in the closet.
18. Your kids believe there is nothing dad can’t fix.
19. You wake up to find your husband spontaneously building a
shed because he felt like it.
20. You know exactly where the bathrooms are located in the local Home
Depot and Lowes.
