I would like a Black Friday for men...

[zzGypsy]

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Ha! that's cool.

a couple of years ago my hubby got me a complete set of sockets, wrenches, T socket drivers and allen wrenches, all in bright anodized colors... he knows I love having complete sets of things, and I'm entertained by the colors, so that's totally cool. besides, that way we can tell which tools are *mine* and which are *his*.

all I can say is harbor freight rocks.

but my hubby rocks more.

for my birthday he found a color coded set of metric wrenches... gave 'em to me in a nice arrangement surrounded by greenery and baby's breath and wrapped in a red bow. a bouquet of wrenches! be still my heart!

 

[TedJan92_in_Idaho]

I hit the local Sears this morning. Good prices on Craftsman. I have a delivery truck coming shortly.

 

[Ole and Lena]

We have a black friday, actually many of them. They're called construction dumpsters, auctions, gunshows, boat shows, carshows, various expos etc.

To me, black friday is a good day to cut wood, shoot geese, build stuff, destroy stuff, basically spend a whole day without the wife while she's off spending money (HA! she had to work today

) doing some of the things men do best and basically staying far away from any sort of retail establishment other than possibly the local hardware store. Kinda like a holiday from women.... MAN TIME. The whole non-store world is my man-cave today!! Think after I'm done running the chainsaw I'll crack a beer around 11am and see where that leads.

 

[Spookwriter]

"A bouquet of wrenches"...now THAT is as romantic as love gets.

How I wish I had thought of that!!! Be proud, zzGypsy. I bet a lot
of husbands are in their shop right now making bouqets. Throw in
a few screwdrivers, maybe a cresent wrench...endless possibility.


Spook....in awe of your husband.

 

[zzGypsy]

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yep, he's a good one! a true romantic.

and of course you know you're supposed to send flowers to your wife on her birthday to her at work, right? because then the folks she works with get to see how much her hubby loves her. so he had them delivered to my work... the funny thing is it changed who "awwwed" and said "how sweet"... instead of the women coming over to comment, it was the men. *they* got it... most of the women just looked mystified.

well ok, there are a couple of them like me, but most of them ...

this year I'm hoping for a really big flower box with a bed of ferns and a chainsaw...

 

[fuzziebutt]

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Oh man, I had too many railroad ties, and it was just a few! The dump charges $$$ to dump them and I really did not want them in the garden. That and telephone pole sections...what is up with guys saving those! Oh well..some day I will have those beasts out!

You can NEVER have too many crossties (RR ties) or power poles! We built a barn about 13 years ago with power poles as the main supports. I accidently burned the barn down a couple years ago, and the poles survived. We rebuilt the barn, and kept the poles as the supports. And we have used the crossties instead of buying landscape timbers, making raised gardens, and making terraces with them. They turn out beautiful, and they won't rot!

 

[Carols Clucks]

My dad had the power guys leave the old poles, but cut in to 4-6 foot sections, I use them to make terraces in the veggie garden, the "stump" of the old pole is one side of the compost bin, a tie on end is the other.

But I have several sections of ties that are rotting out...

 

[kareninthesun]

ladies: forget the clubs. Looking for real men? Free up Black Friday nights and hit these stores!

 

[crossgirl]

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yep, he's a good one! a true romantic.

and of course you know you're supposed to send flowers to your wife on her birthday to her at work, right? because then the folks she works with get to see how much her hubby loves her. so he had them delivered to my work... the funny thing is it changed who "awwwed" and said "how sweet"... instead of the women coming over to comment, it was the men. *they* got it... most of the women just looked mystified.

well ok, there are a couple of them like me, but most of them ...

this year I'm hoping for a really big flower box with a bed of ferns and a chainsaw...

What a guy!!!
Keep that one.

Railroad ties do rot eventually. It'll take a while but if they're in contact with the ground, they'll eventually rot from the inside middle and out. You'll be left with railroad tie shells!

 

[sheaviance1]

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Hi long lost twin seperated at birth!!!! LOL
I hate shopping, love going to hardware stores, feed stores, and yard sales. I despise shopping for clothes, and have started gardening, hunting and fishing so the grocery store is almost bye-bye!!!! Out here, we pick our own groceries! If only I could figure out how to grow cocoa....
Yes, men and women alike need new hammers, lumber, railroad ties, hardware cloth, screws, nuts, and nails!!!