Wife was in the shop when a customer came in!!!

[UzZx32QU]

:eek:.

My wife decided to help me with a customer this morning. After two that's 2 hours I had a $200 sale. I'm glad she doesn't help me more often. It will take me less than an hour to complete the frame that took 2 hours to get the customer out the door.

This should have been 10 - 15 minutes max. So now I'm behind on my framing due on Monday.

Well it was her 1st time to help me in the store in seven years. :help: me 0b1.

Is marriage a form of art?

framer:D

[Val]

Earlier this year my husband thought he wanted to learn how to help me in the shop. We tried.

We decided that emptying the trashes was as helpful as it gets and that if we want to stay happily married it should probably stay that way.

He's at home today, on his day off, happily baking pies and other yummy Thanksgiving goodies. (he's a baker by trade, no snide comments from those of you that didn't know that!) In our house, The Husband's Place Is In The Kitchen and The Wife's Place Is In The Frame Shop.

Yes, Framer, I believe marriage is a Fine Art!

[AnneL]

That's why Gary and I each have certain things we do. I don't try to take pictures, he doesn't try to do framing. I handle all the financial stuff, he takes out the trash. Often, we don't see each other for hours at time even though we are in the same building. We each have our own work rooms and sales rooms. In a pince, I can take a photo order and he can design framing but he really prefers to have the person come back if I'm not available.

[RozR]

My husband helps around the shop alot, too. He does a great job as "operations manager" aka trash guy!! He can be a help when I have customers backed up. He offers them coffee and plays with customer's kids... and then, once in a while, he tries to put his 2 cents worth in by breezing by the design table... and sometimes it's a help and sometimes I have to give him the evil eye when the customer looks away for a second. He has saved a few sales, and I don't think he caused any lost sales. So he can stay. For now.

Roz

[wpfay]

My wife brings me lunch on Saturdays...sometimes. Otherwise she has no interest other than to nag me about getting her stufff framed for the house.
She is the housekeeper, laundress, gardener, corporate middle management 401K earner in a suit with a commute. SHe is in charge of interior pet cleanliness (bird cages)
I have the frame shop, do the heavy lifting, handle the finances, mow the yard, do all the shopping and cooking, and act as liason between my daughter and my wife (they shouldn't speak directly...most of the time...at least for now). I am also second in command of laundry (I do the ironing), and in charge of exterior pet cleanup (I scoop the poop). I am responsible for (catch the blame) all mismanagement.

[RoboFramer]

Pat can do most things I can do but I do them in a fraction of the time, so unless I have no assistance out back - like now - she keeps to 'her side' - crafts (etc)

I am useless on her side!

At home - I do all the cooking and domestic shopping - we share the housework. (She fills the dishwasher - I empty it!) Pat does all the business paperwork at home.

Brawn and brain I suppose.

[RozR]

I am loving this thread...

[Patrick Leeland]

I do most of the laundry, fold it, clean the pet poo, cut the grass-do anything outdoors, clean most of the dishes, due the bills,cleaning the house we split, and look good.

She just looks good...still trying to figure this out. New to all of this, so hopefully it will even out. Then again if she looks good I can handle a bit more than I would like.


PL

[deaconsbench]

Brawn and brain I suppose.

Ah, she lifts weights too, eh? Good for her! :D

[RoboFramer]

Ah, she lifts weights too, eh? Good for her! :D

Reminds me ....

Pat's day off -

I get up and walk or cycle to work (cycling is quicker than driving - walking is not much slower than driving) Pat has a short lie-in. At the end of the day I cash up and walk or cycle home.

My day off -

We both get up and drive to work - we enter the shop via the workshop roller shutter - she can't lift it. (Nor can she reverse up to it) I don't just open that then go home, I wait till the staff are in - 9 - 9:30 - so, get the coffee on - unlock the main doors - (locked from the inside and she can't reach the top bolt) nip and get the milk - TAKE A COUPLE OF FRAMING ORDERS.......

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Get away to start my day off at about 10.

17:30 - return to shop to pick Pat up and lock up - sometimes she will say "Oooh - I have to stay on for an hour to do this and that"

[Val]

We needed a house-sitter (for our critters) while we were away last week. She also cleaned the house from top to bottom. WOW!!! (I felt like I needed to clean the house before the house cleaner could see how dirty it was but.....I got over it!) Does it feel good!!!

I think we may have found the answer to "Who's Chores Are Those, Anyway?". It was sooooo worth the $$! Daily stuff no big deal, but, especially this time of year with both our schedules, the big cleaning just doesn't get done, and I feel guilty, and so does he.

I love our house right now....what little time I get to spend in it!

[Steph]

No snickering from me Val. We have a great set up. Bob does the great cooking, I do the 'let me throw something together so the kids and Bob don't starve, because Bob is working late and I have no patience'. I'm the maintenance person, gardening, lawn mowing, electrician, plumber, fix the riding mower because Bob touched it, etc, etc, etc. We share house cleaning, and with bot of us working so much we have enlisted the help of the kids. Thye have to do their own laundry, clean their room, vacuum, and most importantly, clean the litter box and poop patrol!!

Bob usually spends Sundays cooking several things ( thank God) I work on the house maintenace list.

Then there is our favorite part, we have someone come twice a month to clean the whole house. Everytime we think we shouldn't spend the money, she comes and proves its worth every extra penny.

Oh I almost forgot, Bob does his own laundry. And he isn't allowed to be underfoot at the shop!!!

[Bill Henry-]

My wife stays out of the shop for the most part … thank goodness. When she does come down it is mainly to tell me what I’m doing wrong and to emphasize my lack of cleaning skills. If I play my “which end of the vacuum cleaner do I plug in?” card, she will sometimes dust and clean the store for me. But that benefit comes at a price.

At home we pretty much share the load. Well, maybe, 60/40 on her part. She cooks, I clean the dishes. She does most of the laundry; me, towels. I take care of the lawn; she takes care of the shrubs.

We both share the doggie duties (don’t smurf, you know what I mean!).

[Matoaka]

Our set-up is very similar. Don does the cooking, grocery shopping, makes both our lunches, does his own laundry (kinda), and occasionally vacuums. I am the facility director... maintenance, fix-it person; and the detail person: dusting, cleaning out the closets, and organizing the book shelves. I wrangle the front yard and he wrangles the back yard (with the poo).

As far as management style goes, I make all the small decisions and he makes all the big ones. Although we haven't had any big ones come up yet. :)

[Val]

Oh, this is just too good.
Handy Husband called earlier. Said when I get home this evening I'll have a nice hot supper to look forward to...it's a surprise, I'm gonna love it.

He just called. Not a happy camper. Said if I want a nice hot supper, I'll have to stop somewhere and get it myself. Taking it out of the oven he dropped it all over the floor. His first time making this dish too.......... Quiche!!!

I told him that's okay Honey, this just proves that

REAL MEN DON'T MAKE QUICHE!!!

Then I RAOFLMAO!!! :D :D Darn near peed my pants! He was not amused (well, he kinda was....)

I sooo love him! I'm going home now and tell him so.

[Rick Granick]

You are a treasure, Val.
;) Rick

P.S. When do we get to see wedding pix?

[Val]

I stopped off at Jock-in-the-Box on the way home.

Brought home an Ultimate Double-Bacon Burger for my man!! Oongawa!!!
He was a happy camper once again. Said no more quiche since I laughed at him. And he wants to know if there's a Grumbler-Spouse Support Group. I'm not tellin' him.:p

I'll post wedding pix when I get some...the newlyweds are still in Hawaii. And I'm going to try to figure out how to get mine out of my camera tonight.

[Pat Murphey]

Bill,

If you are still alive today, (I'm hoping your wife doesn't read the Grumble) please make arrangements in your estate for the continuation of this fine forum - just in case.

[Paul N]

Well, this thread may have convinced me.

I guess there goes the idea of teaching / training Monica (future wife candidate) to start manning the shop when I am away. I am afraid she might like that, quit her job as lawyer and then wants to do it when I am around as well....

And yes, our Steph is the handiest person one could ever imagine....:thumbsup:

As for house cleaning: It's worth every penny. You really don't want, especially as time-starved framer, to spend you precious free time on house cleaning!

PS: Val, Quiche is easy.....I need to talk to your husband sometime...;)

[Val]

Paul, the Quiche part wasn't the problem. It was the sliding off the oven shelf and onto the floor part that was the problem. He was sooo embarrassed! All his years as a baker, he's never dropped anything from the oven...until last night!

But with you, dear Paul, I take it back....real men do make Quiche!!

I have to say, this thread is a real eye-opener! I told my Manly Husband about it, and he's surprised to know he isn't the only guy who's sole frame shop task is waste management (trash), and at home, the Litter-Box-Cleaner-Outer, does his own laundry (he has more than I do, lots of Baker's Whites), vaccums, and whose wife does the Handy-Woman chores, and now...hopefully...has a part-time housekeeper! We might even get to see each other now and then!

Thanks for the thread, Framer!

[RoboFramer]

I knew a girl that made fantastc quiche, ah sweet Lorraine - sigh!

[Paul N]

I knew a girl that made fantastc quiche, ah sweet Lorraine - sigh!

Need more info John, pronto!!

PS You should really come to Vegas, John (its' a bit wilder than Steph's party / Baer's class we attended in summer....:p)

And dear Val, sorry to hear about the Quiche-slippage-event! It happens, no need for your sweet husband to be embarrassed.

I remember my first (and final) attempt at Pizza (on a planet, long ago.;...or was that Germany in 1982?.. when I made my first Pizza for a girlfriend. After an hour in the oven it still looked like soup!! We went for Italian, after desperate attempts to turn soup into Pizza....:fire:

I bet that recipe was a practical joke!

[RoboFramer]

You've surely heard of Quiche Lorraine Paul?


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I think I should come to Vegas - but as things are I really shouldn't even be sat here now - and I know that if they stay as they are (both full and part time framers gone) in January I'll be clearing the orders taken next month that were not required for Christmas, plus the normal workload.

If my full-time framer makes it back in time - or his knee does - I'll do my utmost!

[Paul N]

Oh yes John, Quiche Lorraine is indeed a yummy dish..........;)

[Harry FKA Harry]

I'll have a helping please.

[RoboFramer]

Hot?

[Patrick Leeland]

She needs to take off that bother some piece in her, I can't see what hers "eyes" look like.

PL

[wpfay]

Thus proves, once again, the seven second theory.

C'mon gents, let's get our mind out of the cleva....um, gutter, and back on boasting about out wonderfully supportive spouses.

(0ne one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand....think they're real? four one thousand....)

[Paul N]

Yes Wally, her eyes / eye color seems natural, unless she's wearing colored contacts.

[Silly Putty]

hmm, 27 years of marriage and 2 years living together before that,, I'm still trying to figure marriage out and him!
In the shop helping, NO WAY!
"Honey, could you please take the trash out today?" That's it.
I'm with Val,, in the kitchen is where his best work takes place.
Although I now have to cook 2 nites a week!

[Val]

I'm with Val,, in the kitchen is where his best work takes place.
Although I now have to cook 2 nites a week!

I just love my crackpot - I mean - crockpot! The big one. I can stick an entire roast or a whole chicken in there in the morning, with some herbs and spices and potatoes and carrots and onion before I leave in the morning, and dinner just cooks itself. That's about the extent of my cooking this time of year, but it's appreciated none-the-less.

Speaking of crockpots....anyone ever try Betty Newman's Crockpot Lasagna? Yummo!!!

[Paul N]

Some of us cook 7 nights a week (maybe 6 or 5 if the restaurant is an option....) - yeah, non-stop entertainment!