Meddling Sisters-in-law
The worst thing about my wife is that she has SIX sisters ranging from the age of 24 to 40.
Went to a local computer shop the other day to pick up some new parts and equipment and came back only to find out the twins (the youngest) had tided out my workroom!
Now it's impossible to find stuff! They filed away my retro machines (bar the PS2 only because they like playing Resident Evil 4 on it), all my papers, DVD-R's, etc!
They even put a TABLECLOTH on the desk and sprayed perfume (by the smell of things, very expensive perfume).
THey also hid my Speccy tapes, C64, Amiga and ST discs!
What can I do (besides advertise them for sale on here?)
Went to a local computer shop the other day to pick up some new parts and equipment and came back only to find out the twins (the youngest) had tided out my workroom!
Now it's impossible to find stuff! They filed away my retro machines (bar the PS2 only because they like playing Resident Evil 4 on it), all my papers, DVD-R's, etc!
They even put a TABLECLOTH on the desk and sprayed perfume (by the smell of things, very expensive perfume).
THey also hid my Speccy tapes, C64, Amiga and ST discs!
What can I do (besides advertise them for sale on here?)
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I work in a basement at home, its 'my' room so i have all my stuff out which my wife hates (arcade stuff, computers, star wars stuff, oasis etc), its a frickin nightmare when she 'tries' to help and cleans stuff up.
Like you say i cant find half of it. Now she knows and just leaves this room alone so i clean it/tidy it up etc.
Cleaning is one thing, spraying perfume in a 'guys room' is ridiculous !
A favourite of my mother is throwing out my old retro computers and games. Every time I go home something goes missing. So much that I have to have it all with me now, or it will go.
Mum: "what them old tapes?, I binned them a while back, I didn't know what they were."
Me: "Wheres that brown wooden effect games console I had on that shelf."
Mum: "oh that old thing, I threw it out, no one wants them old things any-more".
Me:,"What??!!?? Threw it out!!??!! That was an atari 2600 heavy six from 1976. Where is that boxed Spectrum 128k that was under the bed".
Mum: "oh I don't know what your talking about we never anything like that, no sorry love I woudn't have just thrown it away with out asking you."
Me "But you did the Atari thingy and the tapes"
Mum: "Yeah but that was ages ago"
Me: "Arrrrgggghhhuuuuuugghh!!!!"
We don't have a basement so my workroom is in the indoor shed and everyone knows that is my domain!
Time to get a lock
What is it with some people ? Nice summer days and girls think 'i know we'll be 'really' helpful and with our spare time we'll clean his room for him...' ?!? Crazy !
Are you replying to PSJ or Dave here? ;)
indoor shed?! never heard of that before ? how's it work?
But we had part of it converted into a downstairs toilet for our eldest daughter..
i threw out her old PC replaced it with mine saying its now one we share, of course she daren't touch it in case she breaks it. (she now uses a lappy in the spare room)
i replaced her DVD with my 360 cos it plays dvd's. so i play on the big telly, and she watches a portable in the bedroom.
my xbox games are getting close to replacing her CD collction. of course most of the CD's are mine now. he he.
i do have a pile of old boxes in the spare bedroom, id cry if she threw them out as i keep my drugs in one of them. :sad:
my mum's great, you're just unlucky :p
my dad on the other hand, well he's a menace! if he doesn't throw something away (and then claim never to have seen it) he's moaning. Moan moan moan, why do we have to have all this in here, why is that there, do you still use *that*? moan moan moan :p
It IS a control issue, people will always have different tolerance levels when it comes to clutter, but it is disrespectful to disturb a partners areas.
OR... turn other rooms into workrooms.... turn the bedroom into a workroom... the bathroom into a 'Man's loo'
They will soon back down :)
Indoor shed with a partition wall in it so its half downstairs loo and half storage, are you serious?? It sounds like something Reeves and Morimer would make up.
do you do combined postage? also what condition are they in... looking for a low milage model with no bingo wings , no "strop" mode OR the ability to spend money like it's water... oh and none with kids ta.
I'll send one up to Joff to cheer him up :) so make sure one of em likes t'up north :)
joking aside women seem to stick their oar in when it's none of their bees wax and it "annoys me". e.g. sis wanted me to buy dvd's for her friend off her amazon wishlist .. so I did ELSEWHERE , cheaper.. her friend who I'm buying em for.. HER sis moans about it.. told her wind her neck in, got f-all to do with her.
"annoys me" or they play dumb when things go for a gone for a walk."of course I didn't chuck stuff out" my sis does that to my brother in law a LOT
Miles has a good way of dealing with it, the sneaky sod.hehe
Sweet! now I know where your stash is if I ever decide to turn yer' ken over one day while you're at work :p
aye, and i couldn't even report you to the law. :p
i did that once to a GF, well it wasn't breaking in.
i sold her an ouce of resin, gave it to her, but later her parents found it and confiscated it. then later i was sleeping at her house so i went looking for it, i found it in the parents draw, nabbed it and went back to bed. they thought she had stolen it back and she acused her sister of finding it. so the parents acused the sister and she acused my GF, it went around and around until the family nearly broke up because of it. all the time no one thought to accuse the junkie BF. ha ha ha.