She was just trying to clean up, gotta give her a break on that one. I am curious, do they sell the batteries on their own or do you have to buy another jeep?
Taking the kids to grandma's on Saturday morning. I assume that means that we'd do our Christmas with a million presents on Friday morning, so our two year old would have some time to play. Confirm with my wife, who looks at me like I just killed a guy on the street. She informs me that Christmas is Saturday, as if our two year old is going to whip out his palm pilot and sniff us out
This was pretty much my childhood, my parents literally pulling us out of bed around daybreak to get up early enough to do the Santa thing and then hit the road for the 4 hour drive. They say they regret it now, but I just remember the awesome Santa stuff and having great extended family Christmas visits too.
We would open presents and then immediately drive to PA. I was probably pissed as a small child but mostly I remember having a solid 2-3 hours in the car to play my new GameBoy games which was totally fine.
On the Gameboy subject, I’d get super pissed when my dad stole my gameboy to play while he took a shit.
This unborn boy has another thing coming if he doesn’t think I’m going to play Zelda in the bathroom.
My parents gave a wakeup time. Usually 8am. Had to be quiet in our rooms until then. then Santa time. Unwrapped gifts around tree plus stockings. Then we had to wait for our big Xmas breakfast before we could open all the other gifts. One by one. now it sounds cruel but didn’t know different then.
You can hook any automobile battery charger to it. I replaced a charger on one with a battery tender from home depot, like this one Battery Tender Junior 12V Charger and Maintainer: Automatic 12V Powersports Battery Charger and Maintainer for Motorcycle, ATVs, and More - Smart 12 Volt, 750mA Battery Float Chargers - 021-0123
She's done it again, grown up version! We've been looking at new dining room chairs for a while now. We finally found some we both liked. We just disagreed how many we were going to buy. I wanted to buy 6 chairs and have a bench on one side of the table--she wanted to forego the bench altogether and get 10 chairs. I relented and we agreed on 10 chairs. When buying them she commented on how expensive it was. I didn't ask the final price because I saw how expensive they are and I can do math. I just said yeah "Yeah, I know, dining room chairs are fucking expensive." They finally arrived today, 10 ENORMOUS boxes. We unpacked the first box and there are TWO chairs inside. She ordered ten PAIRS of chairs. The kicker is that the TWENTY fucking dining room chairs cost over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Also I now have a lot of angst at knowing a dining room chair can cost $500. I think we have 10 of those fuckers
I've never really shopped for dining room chairs. Is $500 on the high side for non-luxury chairs, or is $500 for a dining room chair considered luxury? I'm used to desk chair prices.
We have dining room chairs from my wife’s grandmother that we had reupholstered - had lost their cushioning and were kinda dingy. $3k for 8 chairs. At $375 each, I understand it was still half of buying new chairs of like quality. I only had folding chairs from Costco or IKEA before marriage - had no idea.
I just have a plastic folding table and chairs for my dining room table because I never use it, I just eat at my desk or on the couch.
The chairs we looked at ranged from $175 to $900. Most I felt like were in the $275-$450 range. Before we bought these we found chairs we loved for $200 each but when they arrived they weren't the right fit for our table.
This is like when I found out how much rugs cost when I went to sell 5 or 6 that we didn't need anymore
Wait how much do rugs cost?? I just always get cheap area rugs because I want them for the utility, not for decorative purposes.
Several hundred to 4 figures, if you've lucked into marrying a sucker. I'm talking about the bigger ones that go over hardwood floors though
Friend just built a house and they’ve dumped over 5k rugs already. Also was working in my friends fathers house last weekend and I’d venture to guess he has well over 30k in rugs. His wife is Turkish by birth. Absolutely beautiful rugs though.
I had to put together a bed frame the other day and had my girlfriend handing me the parts. I asked for parts “1 & 2”. She looks around for a little and confidently hands me one piece and stops. I look at the piece and it has the number 12 on it. I said she just handed me 12 and she said, while being completely serious, “It says 1 & 2 on it!” I am the asshole for giving her a puzzled look and laughing. This woman has a college degree.
My wife can't help but do DIY projects to her own detriment. She's spent the last 8 hours trying to make personalized Harry Potter shirts for a family Universal trip.Call me crazy, but spending $20 on a store made shirt is better than spending $8 on a blank shirt and spending half your day designing it. I try to offer to wrap all the presents that still need wrapping but get shot down because I don't do it the "right way." Meanwhile there's a bike in the shed that needs to get put together before morning that I'm not allowed to touch because she wants to do it. I've been telling her to do it for weeks because I knew how stressful Christmas Eve would be to no avail.
Good luck my man! First year the wife went all bags on wrapping and been telling her to go that route for years! Been trying tell her they don’t give a shit for years but she has some sort of fucking elf in her bloodline. Moral of the story I didn’t get yelled at today!
I still like my presents wrapped. Nothing quite like the anticipation that builds while you're ripping off the paper.
I get it and respect it. I am speaking as man who was accosted repeatedly because I didn’t do the job correctly.
I am not a talented gift wrapper, but I slog through every year with the few that need it. Bags are a godsend for asymmetric shapes, blister pack anything, and hooch.
Im getting ready this morning and she goes “oh my god babe there’s been a shooting come look at this” I walk over to read the headline and it’s “Shooting at Nakatomi Plaza”. I started dying laughing and she’s like “fuck I should’ve googled that”. Then I grab my phone and she’s crying laughing “DO NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS”
waiting to open all the wrapped gifts until after breakfast that took forever. Then we had to open them one person one gift a time. Watching each person open. Took forever also. Tough as a kid. But in hindsight enjoyed it
My favorite pastime is spending an hour cleaning the house the night before the maids come. It's especially neat right after Christmas
You have multiple maids? How big is your house or how messy are you, motherfucker? lol Any of them bang maids?