Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 01, 2022

If it is out in the shed, it is allowable.

I just have resigned to that but never forgave the use of my favorite steak knife yet!

The closest tool that will work, is the normal choice for guy’s

Hey, a rafter framing hammer with an almost straight claw is the best tool for digging weeds. Whack that claw into the ground near a weed and you have everything loosened up and ready to pull in seconds.

Tis called a Multi Purpose tool ;-)

My wife will use a chisel to open a paint can

She’s like my wife. She’ll use the first tool that comes to hand. Like trying to turn eggs with a wooden spoon.

I find my tools in the kitchen drawers sometimes. I ask why don’t you put them back? She says she didn’t do it.

Sounds like my Mrs. She will get what ever looks right and use it. I’ve tried to tell her proper tool for the job.She’s an Esthetician so does the eyelashes and has an assortment of different tweezers she uses. I’ve gone so far as to grab a pair of vice grips, hand them to her and say, “it’s the same as putting on your eyelashes using these” Makes notta a difference. My good knives I gave up trying to keep sharp. Used for everything from screwdrivers to cutting cardboard. Purchased a new set and keep them locked up unless I am using them.

Thanks to this, I realized that I don’t have a “best” screwdriver. They’re all just screwdrivers.

Plugger’s wives are passive-aggressive.

My mom always uses a sharp knife from the cutlery drawer and seemingly never the same one twice. It drives my dad crazy.

My wife doesn’t do this, but she does leave tools lying outside to slowly rust to a fine patina.

Mine leaves tools, usually the small ones, in the grass for me to find with the mower.

If a spouse uses tools to garden, and especially leaves them in the garden and/or the lawn after that, then the other spouse is entitled by law to use the guest towels to clean the dipstick when adding oil to the vehicles, for cleaning up after changing oil filters, lubing the chassis, and/or cleaning up spilled brake fluid.

pardon me for sounding misogynistic or sexist or whatever, but to paraphrase Red Green, “if the [men] don’t find you [pretty], they should at least find you handy.”

And too cheap to buy her a set of screwdrivers. :)

My best guess, dude? She’s imagining the garden is you. I suggest you sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight.

My husband bought a tool cabinet and it is a disaster. I learned years ago, if I ever need a tool, buy my own and hide it from him.

She’s screwing with you.

Ya, like someone else mentioned, I find my tools in the kitchen junk drawer all the time. I “borrowed” her rubber pad jar opener and took it to work…those things work great removing the insulation off of twisted pair shielded wires (I’m and avionics installer, build wire harnesses a lot). She noticed it missing and asked if I had it, so ya I don’t lie to my wife…..OH my gawd, I got the rare youbetterbringthatbackoryouarecutoff-forlife look. They are cheap from Amazon I found out. But anyway, point is…“I can use your stuff but you can’t use mine” kinda deal. Well, at least don’t take it out of the house.

The fact that you have a favorite screwdriver means you’re a plugger.

Many years ago, I told my husband that I was not the ‘keeper of locations’ and I would no longer drop everything and look for something or even answer when asked, “where is my screwdriver?” “where are my nail clippers?” “where is the mustard”. The answers, of course were “wherever you left them” and “in the door of the refrigerator unless you didn’t put it back after you made your sandwich last night.” I have my own small set of tools which I keep hidden because he has run through several sets of his own. When we sold our house 15 years ago, I collected all the tools from the shed, garage, basement, and yard and filled 4 tool boxes with an assortment left over. They went like hotcakes at the garage sale.

Actually, I learned from my wife that a Phillips screwdriver is perfect for planting seeds or seedlings. Clean it after use and no harm, no foul.

However don’t ever suggest she use her pretty ceramic handled one with the floral design she got from the dollar store.

My ex wife pounded my Snap On screwdrivers into the ground with a sledgehammer. Not the only reason she’s my ex but it sure didn’t help.

Wife doesn’t plant anything. If she buys a plant she hands it to me and tells me where she wants it.

my wife uses our tools for what they’re designed for, whether screwdrivers or trowels, and she’s probably a better “handyman” than i am…

I would never do that. I know what tools are used for what and that they need to be taken care of.

Husband was amazed that I knew how to use hand and power tools as females in his family never used same. But I was the oldest of 3 girls and someone had to help dad – first project was a bench for me to stand on to reach the sink when I was 5 years old.

In our apartment when we were first married there was no storage other than the small wall cabinet over the sink – no place to even keep his electric razor. We bought a small plastic cabinet to hang on the wall and he kept not doing so. One day I decided I would hang it and get it done with. I used a hand screwdriver to do so. When he came home and I showed him he looked at it – “Did you use a level to make sure it is level?” “No, I lined the bottom up with the top of the tiles.” “Okay” – said in the manner of “that will be a problem”. Where did you get mollies? “I didn’t bother with mollies.” “Oh NO! It will never stay up and probably will damage the wall.” When we moved out 9 years later – the cabinet was still attached, nothing ever rolled as it was level, and it was screwed in so well that we had trouble getting it off the wall!