[sdiy] sdiy marriage troubles?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 04 October 2008 22:03, Dan Snazelle wrote:
> can anyone give me some advice on how to deal with wives who are angry
> about sdiy mess...we live in a small apartment so most if not all of my
> sdiy work goes on in the bedroom...which at this point we have divided into
> two sections...my work area and the bedroom.
>
> soon enough i hope to have an office but for now it is becoming a major
> strain in our relationship....but the synth is not leaving and neither is
> electronics.

(refraining from dropping the obvious comment in here...)

> p.s. at this point we cant afford anything bigger and we dont have any
> basement.

I'll say a little bit about my situation then.  We started out with me doing 
this sort of stuff where I was working,  when the complaint was that I was 
spending too much time there.  :-)  Then we ended up going through a bunch of 
major changes over a year or two and ended up in a place that had some 
serious room,  and I took advantage of it,  had my own office,  lots of 
storage,  etc.  Then we ended up in a really small place,  where I 
partitioned off a segment of one room.  Then moved the junk into a business 
and after a while that didn't work out.  Six months later I opened my own 
business,  and that ran for seven years.  Then it folded and I ended up with 
my desk in the living room again,  then in a small room we had.  Then we 
moved out of there into a temporary situation,  I had a couple of different 
accomodations going there,  then into our last place where I had a room 
again.

Now we dont have the space (yes,  there's a basement,  but it's a four-adult 
household and things are really complicated for reasons I won't go into 
here).  My big L-shaped desk isn't any more,  there's no room for the whole 
thing,  so I only have part of it here in the bedroom.

The last straw was bringing all those service manuals back here.  Things just 
got too cluttered and too crazy-making.   So I went looking,  found myself a 
garage for rent a few blocks away from here,  and have been thankfully 
generating enough from selling the manuals to cover the rent on the garage,  
which is where almost all of my junk is now.  Dunno what I'm gonna do when 
winter gets here,   though.

Oh,  and the time-span on the above?  As of this past August,  it's about 30 
years.  :-)

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