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Originally Posted by Ldyrev1 (Post 4185840)

Wow, this is a great question. I have been very blessed to be married to a man who does most everything well. When we first bought this old house, he went to the library to learn how to do electrical work. He's smart enough to know he didn't want to be the one to make the final connections but he could do most everything else. The two major remodeling projects (upstairs bath and kitchen) we had done by others as it was a time issue. DH was just working so many hours it would have taken us months to get those done. He is good though!!

The one thing that I can do better than he can is back up a trailer. We learned this way back when our girls were little (started camping before the youngest could walk) and he could not back up our little pop up camper into the camp space. I finally said, let me have a try and first attempt I got it right in. After that, backing up the camper was always my job. I had never done that before and don't realize why I can do it so easily but I was glad to find something that I could do better than he could do. LOL Oh one more thing. I wallpaper, all by myself! Proud of that!!

OMg you can back up a trailer/camper.... good for you girl! :)

We are avid campers and have had onr pup up for 11 yrs and I still cant do it. I just drive through the grass the lot behind our and hope it comes to rest in a good place. But thanks to my upbringing & Girl Scout I too am better at starting the fire.

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Originally Posted by gemy (Post 4185924)

I have to say I am impressed too with all the handywoman here.

Sadly I lack any truly usefull mechanical skills around the home.

I can and do mow the lawn. Take out trash, replace a light bulb. OH yes do all the finances here, and it is tax season so that too. I do the grooming, arrange for handlers, research our lines, train and compete with our dogs. Cook meal plan, vacation plan, grocery shop, take everything in to be fixed etc. And let us not forget the cleaning and laundry.

:D What I do really well is pick up the phone and call the handyman for all the Honey do things - hubby has not gotten to "yet" - some have been on the list for six years:) I can be stubborn.....lol Like I am not hiring a hanlyman to clean out our crawlspace that I cleaned out before you came here, and filled it all back up again. :thumbdown:thumbdown

Luckily we are comfortable financially so we can get in a handyman here n there, breed dogs, and even go on doggy vacations:D

I love that part. . . If only we were as lucky !!

Plus you can do your own taxes, thats awesome. Im afraid that we will screw something up and not get back the correct amount of money. I just found out that we've been paying $100 for something that we could have gotten done for free because we file a 1090EZ form :( uhh nuts !!