True...a wife will buy you a new tool but will you get to use said tool as often?:eek:
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True...a wife will buy you a new tool but will you get to use said tool as often?:eek:
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Congrats to you both.
I've been married to Ros 16 years last January. We've had three kids, aged 11, 9, and 8. I wouldn't trade then in on anything, although I do contemplate eBAY, and power tools, when they are tired and crabby.
It's been mostly smooth sailing. As she thinks I have no major vices (apart from the 4" Engineers in the shed) and don't smoke, don't drink (much), don't bet, don't consort with other women, and I return home to the family home more-or-less the same time every day in a sober and reliable fashion, she sees fit to indulge in my various hobbies. She knows I don't like buying crappy tools, so I don't, and she's quite happy letting me maintain my motorcycle in the manner to which it has become accustomed.
It's not all beer and skittles, but my life seems to be richer than the people I know older than ourselves that have each other, and work, and that's all. She has very minor and occasionally annoying quirks that sometimes drive me nuts, but I'm sure that I display traits which have the same effect on her. The hard part, which seems to cause people problems, is that you have to realise that people are different, and the do have their own way of doing things and seeing the world. You have to accept and respect this, if you don't, then the relationship isn't going to last.
A lot of marriage is give and take, although many years ago I found that my wife, it's better to give, and then take when she'd not looking! It's certainly not worth arguing with her, the female side of her family shows a remarkable amount of independence and stubbornness (traits passed to my daughter).
Anyway good luck!
Mick
Well ..... its all been done ..... I am now fully committed.
After popping the question December 5th 2003 I picked up the ring on Tuesday. I know it seems like a long stretch from December 5th 2003 to February 17th 2004, but in my defence .... we didn't start looking until December 24th ..... then the jeweller was on holiday and it wouldn't be ready until 1st February 2004 .... and then it took me a lazy 3 weeks to get into the city to pick it up. :D
Oh well the Stinkette seems very happy with the ring and is looking forward to showing everybody, including the neighbours cat ..... and me ..... well I just keep telling myself that I really don’t have the room for the new Jet table saw .... I guess I will need to design and build a bigger house now.
Thanks for the encouragement everybody (and some of the negatives, I guess it was a good thing that I missed Iain's post
:confused:.)
Mr and Mrs Stinkalot :D
Stinky,
Will you be sending the invitations by Personal Message or EMAIL or do you want our addresses?
I reckon if you invite enough of us, we could all chip in and buy you that saw as a wedding gift.
Good to hear you made the right decision.
- Wood Borer
Actually, I didn't post anything undesirable, I only put that comment as a response to a feminist post in the hope of provoking a few responses, only got one bite:D.
I'm sure is having a chuckle.
Hey, Stinky
According to my copy of Burke's Peerage (or that might actually be Pierre's Burkage), the correct mode of address isn't Mr & Mrs Stinkalot but Sir & Lady Stinkalot. I'm sure Sir Chizalot can confirm the accuracy of all this.
Anyway, congratulations - I hope it all works out for you both.
Regards
Col
I would definitely NOT have bought the ring. I really don’t believe that many women, (maybe 1 in 500) can tell the difference between a piece of cut glass and a diamond or ruby. It is all in the presentation. A very small piece of glass in a big gold ring will please her just as much as 100 carats of diamond and she will never know the difference.
If fact, I would be prepared to bet that if you actually did have a 100 carat diamond set in a gold coloured aluminium ring and a 1 carat diamond set in a gold ring then your average woman would completely scorn the 100 carat ring.
Any feelings of guilt you may harbour may be completely assuaged and ameliorated by the ownership of your new equipment.
Stinky,
Now that you've been married for a bit, should you have gotten the Table Saw instead?
Grunt
Grunt .... the marrage seems to be working well .... the machinery keeps on coming. Since the big day I have managed to get a 2hp dusty, hitachi MV12 router and shortly a jointer and thicknesser. No saw yet but its not far off :)
Go the Stinkette you will be amazed how untemperamental a tablesaw can be which means when you finally do get it you will appreciate it so much more. Mind you after the wedding that analogy can be applied in a number of areas.
It's amazing the warm inner glow a woman can offer up at times.
It's also amazing the warm inner glow a tablesaw can offer up having measured twice and cut correctly.
It's amazing how a table saw can also treat you badly should you do the wrong thing.
It's understandable that a woman would do the same with more severe connotations!
Investments in both may or may not be for life but to ignore their whims is tantamount to a detrimental response.
Tablesaws are never warm hearted but stay true with appropriate petting,whereas a woman will always stay warm, not necessarily always true, but with continued petting may be accessible.
No slight intended.
Cheers :)
Mine has an uneven surface, blunt teeth and objects to being locked up in the shed at night alone, does not like being rubbed down with floor polish and being cleaned out internally with compressed air and a small brush.
This is an exercise in lateral thinking, if ever I saw one.
Seems to me she now has what she wants. The solution at hand can be summed up in one word. Postpone.
Postpone, delay, put off, whatever - until you have your saws and whatever else you need. She will soon come around to the idea if she has to wait another 9 years before the wedding bells toll.
I'd suggest kids before then, that way you can use them to throw flowers at her feet, lose the next ring etc. You never know, you may lose a finger with your new saw (touch wood you dont) and she may reject you forever after. Get the kids now. (They are well worth the effort, no matter what anyone says.)
J!
Congrats in order Stinky,
Another one bites the dust :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
About 4 years ago when funnily enough I was also 26, I proposed to Ms routermaniac.... shortly after she became Mrs routermaniac.
Marriage does add another dimension to your relationship and it was the best thing I've done. Good luck to you and I hope things work out.
PS No reason why you cant get the table saw next year :D
regards
marios