Thread: Who take's the along wife, while shoping for tools?

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Got a great wife, had some harbor freight air tools once. The only comment was they were loud, they were also under powered. I used them until they wore out, they had a short life. So upgraded to some ingsol stuff, now I have power and less noise.

Never have a problem with money spent on tools or hotrods with her. She likes all the stuff I can fix. She's the fixer's wife and some of the stuff I do rubs off on her, a great back up to have when I am on the road.

Ha ha I like Barbs. By the time Jayden is 16 I figure she'll pick up my interests and be wrenching as good as any fella. She's almost 6 and already carrying off my tools. caught her disassembling her baby buggy not long ago.

Originally Posted by Stovebolter

Ha ha I like Barbs. By the time Jayden is 16 I figure she'll pick up my interests and be wrenching as good as any fella. She's almost 6 and already carrying off my tools. caught her disassembling her baby buggy not long ago.

Now if she was taking the wheels off your lawnmower or wagon to "customize" the baby buggy, she's really gonna' give the guys a run for their money!!

My dear wife, when she was alive, didn't care much for shopping for tools with me, but if I put something on a Christmas or birthday list she would, more often than not, buy it for me as long as I put a good description of what i wanted. I found that pictures, prices and what store was invaluable. I can thank her for many wrenches, sockets, a chest or two, and a lot of odd ball stuff she bought for me over the years. She was a peach and she wasn't from Georgia, but it would have been fine if she had of been.

My wife and I are fine when it comes to tools. I thought I'd get a earfull a couple of weeks ago when I bought the electric sewer snake from H.F. but she was just happy it was something I could fix, and understood it will be needed again and will pay for itself down the line. And it did last week when the drain plugged again! (First lesson in snaking, once drain drains and appears AOK, keep going another 10-20 feet, because there is probably a secondary blockage down the line!).
I give her a hard time jokingly about clothes, shoes and nicknacks, but when it comes to tools, I've told her to go for it for a quality sewing machine, surger, steam cleaner and other stuff she's wanted, and she pretty much supports me the same!

HE! HE! HE! My wife just came in and gave me the new Harbor Freight paper.
She told me we could have got my new floor jack 5 bucks cheaper this month then she said I am going to get my 5 bucks back.
She says look over the paper, I said for what? She said to make sure I don't want anything else since we gotta go back anyway.
God I really love my wife!!!!
Kurt

And I bet she get the$$$$$ back too. I know my wife would

Yep she always does, and if she does not like the cashier's opinion she has no problem chasing down managers till she get what she wants.
I think they give stuff to her, just to get her out of the store some times.
HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

Originally Posted by vara4

HE! HE! HE! My wife just came in and gave me the new Harbor Freight paper.
She told me we could have got my new floor jack 5 bucks cheaper this month then she said I am going to get my 5 bucks back.
She says look over the paper, I said for what? She said to make sure I don't want anything else since we gotta go back anyway.
God I really love my wife!!!!
Kurt

So how far do you have to drive for that $5'er, Kurt??

Too far, But I have to go back to town with my trailer anyway to get some steel.
Then a trip to sam's club, Comp USA, Joann's fabric's, then try to find a Hydraulic place to get some seal's for
my old floor jack. We try to make the most out of our trips to town. Probably to the Vet's to so we can get
the new Boxer puppy's dew claws and tail's docked. Our female Boxer went in to labor this morning.
So just a few things to do when we get to town. There won't be enough time to stop by my brothers for a visit.
Kurt

Originally Posted by vara4

Too far, But I have to go back to town with my trailer anyway to get some steel.
Then a trip to sam's club, Comp USA, Joann's fabric's, then try to find a Hydraulic place to get some seal's for
my old floor jack. We try to make the most out of our trips to town. Probably to the Vet's to so we can get
the new Boxer puppy's dew claws and tail's docked. Our female Boxer went in to labor this morning.
So just a few things to do when we get to town. There won't be enough time to stop by my brothers for a visit.
Kurt

More puppies?? That's cool. I understand making the most of the trip - I'm only about eight or ten miles out, and it's still a hassle to run in for a small, single need.

We are talking about wives buying tools for us last Christmas my wife wanted a wood lathe. She now has one out in the car garage first thing I showed her how to make was a ball. IT 'turned' out realy nice..

Cffisher:
I am actually about 8 miles west of Pahrump or the main drag where all the stores are.
Las Vegas is a little over a hour east of me. Pahrump does not have alot of stuff and
what they do have out here is very expensive in stores.
They know they got you by what you wife made on her Lathe.
HE! HE! HE!
Kurt

I like my like to shop for tools with me because she, like other wives here, will pop for the bill. She figures the more tools I have the more things I can fix around the house.

Jack.

Or the more time were out in the shop leaving them alone to do there thing