Never let your wife into your shop...

Mine will always be welcomed, last night I was working on my 37 door she was working on a quilt to give away at my daughters prom. We hardly talked but her being there was enough. She is my best friend, and owns half of the shop.

 

One of the things that my wife used to complain about was the huge box of
electrical cords that I had.UNTIL the day she lost the cord for her portable tape player.Went to"THE BOX"and got her one in about one minute.Has never complained since.Hehehe.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

Mine was taught how to work on cars by her father she has her own tools so I cant tell her no

 

Find some dead critters, like mice and squirrels put them in a plastic sack and tell her "Look what I found in the cushions" guaranteed you'll have your upholstery material back.

 

Before we were married she came to the shop to brush paint the inside of my model a. She showed up in cute little white sweat pants scared my dad out of the shop but she stuck to it and did a good job. She wrecked here sweats, said it was fun and sees now what I'm doing all the time.We got married and that was the last time she helped on a car in the 27 years. She comes out in the shop once in a while and threatens to throw out all my junk but a few shots with the air gun and she runs out. After 27 years she likes cars but not the work ***ociated with them.

 

My garage is my place, she does whatever she wants to the rest of the house.
This is where I can get away to work on my projects, watch TV, take a nap, make noise, play loud music and occasionally when she's mad, I use it as my dog house.
The queen uses it only to go to her car and back.

 

mcmopar....she owns HALF of everything!

 

We got married Five years ago, at the time she knew I wanted wanted/needed a big garage so when we were house hunting she found the house we have now. Two car garage attached to the house and a 40x50 two story shop in the back on a couple of acres. I was close to retirement and had bragged about all the remodeling I had done in the past (in my youth). I thought I had the garage to myself but she wanted to learn to weld and work with metal to do metal sculpture as a hobby. Well, I get the shop all day (about 2/3rds since she has taken over the rest of it) but at night it is a shared building. She makes more of a mess of metal grindings than I ever did. Evidently the effort paid off, she took ten items to two different art galleries and sold half of it in less than two weeks. She just sold a fish made of "s" wrenches for almost $400, way better than I have ever done selling car parts If you would like to see how one woman takes junk and turns it into art, just go to "S**** Metal Design" on Facebook. Life is good So is retirement.

 

Larry,That's a darn good profit......you need to forget hot rods and start selling used furniture! HRP

 

I had an old friend that owned modified stock cars in nj. Since the 50s,....said a wife is something you screw on the bed and it dose the house work!.....just sayin....mine is a keeper!

 

My wife and I will have been married 30 years (as of Memorial Day) and she loves the old cars and the ***ociated "stuff" (gas pump in front of the garage, driveway bell that dings when she parks her truck in its spot, signs on the front of the garage, a 55 Pontiac quarter panel in the garden (with a working taillight)).

When we were first married, our taking muscle car bodies back up to Pittsburgh is what financed a lot of our trips to see her parents, vacations, our furniture, etc... (and of course, more cars and parts). She knows who ****ers her bread! Yes, we still fight like cats & dogs at times, but for the most part, she'll gladly hold a wrench or will help sand something or push a car into or out of the garage with me and won't complain about the clutter or the noise. She's actually gotten quite good at helping me to load up the Blues Brothers car on the trailer when we do an out of town event or parade and has all of the hand signals down pat to tell me to pull up, back, left/right, slowly, etc... 10 and 15 years ago when our little country junkyard was still open up near Richmond, she'd go with me just to spend time with me and she'd sit in the truck and read or do cross s***ch as I was scavenging all of the cars and school buses for parts to sell at swap meets, and she'd make sure that I stopped to eat or to get something to drink every now & then...

 

hah, i have always said; "what's mine is hers, and what's hers i don't want"

 

Told the wife I'm going to have an old pickup as a daily driver, man what an argument, in the end she told me that she agrees but that she's buying me a new one as a backup.......that's a supporting wife........and this thread is what is best about the H.A.M.B.! I've been LMAO with all of these comments.........

 

I was telling a woman that the newest car I own is 50 years old and she kept saying I need a new truck. Turned out she wants the new truck for herself!

 

the only time my wife comes into my shed....is to ask directions to the house

 

I lost my wife eighteen years ago.........at the Mall, said she'd be back in ten minutes, I waited twenty, went to Sears and never looked back.....

 

Just found this thread. Read it from start to finished. Some funny stuff! My wife is my best friend. But she only likes to cruise in the hot rods. She can't stand to get dirty, and her tools are a hair dryer, my little pinchie tool,[piers] and a hammer. I told her once that I seen a mouse in the garage. That works better than any lock. We share everything, but the garage is all mind. When we were dating, she said I just love it when guys peel out. I knew then that I'm marrying this girl. lol Ron...

 

When we were dating (30 years ago) she would help me do
little things in the garage,like pump the pedal, to bleed brakes.
Those days are GONE!
Sometimes lucky to get her to make supper?
A lot of time I just make it myself!

 

I have a response to this wife thing - it was p***ed on to me from a wise old man " Always marry a fat tattooed woman , you'll have heat in the winter , shade in the summer and get to enjoy a moving picture every evening " [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]

 

When we got married 20 yrs ago this October, all she knew about cars was the key goes in the front and the gas goes in the back. My wedding present to her was my Subaru Service Center in Seattle.

Since then, she has quadrupled the business, opened a 2nd Service Center and made us a pile of money. Now for the best part, I get a pay check every week. Not for working but for staying away.

My job now is to keep all of our restored and original cars up and running. This includes 3 Ferrari's, several early barn fresh br*** cars, a couple of vintage dirt track cars, and ***orted other cars that we cycle thru.

For her 60th birthday I gave her a 1966 Shelby Cobra( fake, clone, tribute or what ever the buzz words are). As long as its loud and fast she's in. Her idea is , she makes the money, and I spend t on cars and toys. Works for us.

just sayin'

br***carguy

For h

 

I finally have a shop that isn't attached to the house. The wife isn't into the cars at all, and used to view the attached garage as nothing more than the biggest closet in the house. The other day I was telling the wife about something I dragged home and put in the shop. She said, "Why do you tell me about these things? You could just put it out in the shop, and I wouldn't have to hear about it." By way of clarification, I asked "So, you want me to bring things home, put them in the shop, and not tell you about them? I can do that!" She got the "deer in the headlights" look when she realized what she had just done.

 

Ditto...........When my little skid steer loader had a stroke last year I fixed what I thought was the problem, it didn't fix it and hurt my back for weeks...Knowing that what I had to look at next was going to be harder to do and I was only going to hurt my back again so I mentioned to the wife that I will sell it and buy a new little tractor..I almost fell off the chair I was sitting in when she offered to HELP ME PAY for it..

 

In our city there is a one-day event each year called "Tidy Town", where the garbage truck companies will collect large items that normally can't be put into the weekly trash, so there are chairs, couches, tables, tires, and just a lot of stuff people want to get rid of. Consequently, the s****pers are out in force picking up lawn mowers, BBQ grilles, any metal they can find. My wife and I look for the discarded leather furniture, and strip the leather on the spot with box cutters. It takes about two minutes to strip all the leather off of a full sized couch, and the garbage guys get to haul off the carc*** so I don't have to deal with it.. Last tidy town we collected nearly 350 square feet of really nice leather, and maybe another 75 or so of "cushion" leather, which is usually the only part that has any wear on it.

 

Field dressing a couch? Only in Kansas....

 

I got a new charcoal grill today. So I just made us dinner on it for the first time. My wife just asked if I forgot to turn it off. I said WHAT, she says it is still smoking. So did you forget to turn it off. LOL

 

House joins the garage thru a pair of French doors (sounds cl***ier than it is) and that is where all the "stuff" from the house gets put. So when I go to get the welder, in it's shopping cart, out, I have to move a mountain of ****. That said, she sews interior stuff up nice and she smells good....

 

How many of these couches are real leather and not bonded leather? If the backside is fuzzy, it's bonded.
Just a word of caution before spending time repurposing it, hate to see it start peeling after its in the car, UV breaks down the bonded junk.

Enough of that. Let's see more examples of repurposed leather.

My wife uses the garage as an annex to the house, could care less about the cars.

 

3WLarry,.... Your a idiot !..... Like a goofy Lil Brother,. I love ya in a pathetic,... Disgusting, nose running, fart smelling, Lil Bro kind of way ( Keep your distance,... And we'll be fine) With that said, you Grungy Twerp,.... I think about you a lot and remember you in prayer. Cause Family is first line of defense.

Hold Fast Bro...... Keep those stupid ideas coming,... You my friend, are a wealth of knowledge an inspiration !......... (Even if you are a "Grungy-Twerp" )

 

This is an old thread and while it may be entertaining, I don't know if you are aware that Larry lost his wife.

I'm sure that he would love to have her still with him to ask for a used couch. Or anything else for that matter.

Hang in there Larry.
We are with you.