LETS talk about MENS...BITS!!!!

[Purrdy]

yes mens bits....you know I go everywhere and there are bits that hubby has left....bits of suff like screws and wood and stuff for mending and fishing stuff and papers and books and just stuff...you know ...bits.... just mens bits....do other women have problems with thier mens bits?...............

[OVERIT]

I am replying to this. I am just typing it in WORD first, because it is so long.

[Purrdy]

bits...i dont mind mens bits..they are quite useful really....but there is a place for them......

[Kierra6]

yep, all the stray screws (it's not properly repaired unless there's at least one screw left over)...stray washers, the odd nut...

the little cleaning brush for the electric razor

small cologne bottles, even though they don't use the stuff

spare hex wrenches that have been included with some "assembly required" item, the instructions for assembly

interchangeable screwdriver bits...drill bits

That's stuff I can think of, off the top and I haven't lived with a man in 3 years. And I have no idea why I don't throw it out.

Didn't I say I had a few screws loose?

[indigo]

My son's never do finish off what they call 'snags' anyone else own a 'snagger'?

indie

[Gobi]

I have a corner in a kitchen cabinet that we call my "special place". I put any small thing there that I find around the house that I think is too important to throw away but that I don't know what it's for -- you know, nuts, bolts, washers, that kind of thing. Whenever he is looking for something, he looks in my "special place" first. We've had it since before we had kids, but even now the kids call it "momma's special place". I think it sounds like it should be illegal!

Anything bigger than that goes straight onto his table saw. That way, he can't accuse me of putting something away in the wrong place.

And God forbid I should throw out some mangled, rusted piece of metal. He'll go ballistic, it having turned out he was saving it because "You can't buy them in stores anymore. You should have known that!" Grrrr

[Purrdy]

I have bits everywhere!!!!

i wouldnt be without them though its very comforting to have mens bits around....

hey im at my cousins house...told you i wouldnt be able to stay away from SR......!!!!! its 190 miles from home!!!!

she has four cats..........no kids.....and a husband...she is totally beautiful and i love her to bits...just waiting for her to get home now....

god she and i just make eachother laugh till it hurts....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OVERIT]

Does EVERYBODY in England own cats????????????????

[best]

I would like to comment on the bits and state my problem with them.
When I leave bits around, I know where I left them. When I need them, I know where they can be found...TILL my wife starts thinking I have bits that need be moved and put away.
"Honey" Where is my power saw? I left it on the dinner table last month and now I can't find it. Did you put it someplace?"

[Kierra6]

yep...a uterus has a built-in "tracking device" for men's bits

[best]

Why did man invent hex keys?
because women don't understand what they are and leave them alone...(these must be important, I won't move them)

The hex keys are still sitting on the back porch where I left them a year ago.
(my good set is in the tool box)

[Kierra6]

the GPS model will be available soon

[Purrdy]

Originally Posted by best

I would like to comment on the bits and state my problem with them.
When I leave bits around, I know where I left them. When I need them, I know where they can be found...TILL my wife starts thinking I have bits that need be moved and put away.
"Honey" Where is my power saw? I left it on the dinner table last month and now I can't find it. Did you put it someplace?"

men and thier bits...i ask you! you should see the workshop here....!!! organised chaos!!! how E ever gets near his lathe is a conundrum to me...its like climbing over a multitude of bits just to get to it...then he can stand there and create the most amazing wooden bowl!!!!

as for me i dont leave bits anywhere! oh no...not me...never...me? oh no....

[Kierra6]

Isn't it funny how women's spare bits usually involve paper?

the recipes torn from newspapers and mags, seed packets, receipts they don't really need, but can't bear to throw out

kid's permission slips, school schedules, slips of paper with phone numbers

spare napkins from take-out, maybe a set of chopsticks in a paper sleeve

wallet-size pics of everybody's kids, a "thank you" note, a birthday card

yep...women's bits

[Purrdy]

okaayyy lets talk about womens bits too.....!!!!!....lol......

[OVERIT]

Here is an actual pic of my man's bits.

Because you never know when you might need: a rusty pair of pinking shears, a 2" x 2" block of wood, 5 tubes of dried up caulking, toilet parts that you have had for 20 years, rusty nails and boxes of scrapwood:




Ane he calls me a packrat??????????????

[Purrdy]

oh god im at home there.......ill take one of the workshop here..you will think its a war zone!!!

graet pic Ang!....lol

[Gobi]

Take overit's picture and put every single item on its own separate hook, lined up straight, ordered according to size; put in a whole separate shelf for little boxes of nails, still in their original packaging, even if there are only six left (becuase you might need six 4" nails and want to know where they are) and throw in a chest of drawers where one drawer is for pliers, one drawer is for screwdrivers, one drawer is for adhesives ... and you get dh's workbench.

Take the same picture, and change every single item to a bill that needs to be filed or a pen that doesn't have a top anymore or an empty soda glass, and you get my desk.

[OVERIT]

Originally Posted by Gobi

Take overit's picture and put every single item on its own separate hook, lined up straight, ordered according to size; put in a whole separate shelf for little boxes of nails, still in their original packaging, even if there are only six left (becuase you might need six 4" nails and want to know where they are) and throw in a chest of drawers where one drawer is for pliers, one drawer is for screwdrivers, one drawer is for adhesives ... and you get dh's workbench.

Take the same picture, and change every single item to a bill that needs to be filed or a pen that doesn't have a top anymore or an empty soda glass, and you get my desk.

Well, Gobi, you rock!!!! Sounds the same as my scrapbook room.

[Purrdy]

Morning!....how are we all today????