sounds familiar!!! my husband and i decided early on that we just are not cut out for the home improvement thing. i think he'd be able to build an entire house by hand if he had the patiene to, but he doesn't. he gets so frustrated at himself then super nit picky and it all ends up making me one irritated biotch to be a part of. and even though i am addicted to HGTV, i'd rather have the money to hire someone to do all that work for me!

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I'm not really good at home improvement either. I suppose we'd do it if push came to shove, but I get too nervous about screwing it up.

mudding and sanding. I'll live with the bare frame-work before I EVER do that again. I'm terrified to even try plumbing or electrical. I figure I can pay the regular rate to have it done right the first time or I can pay double to have my screw-ups fixed and then have the work actually done. LOL!!!

I spent several years fixing up old houses that I didn't own because the rent was cheaper and I thought it would give me enough experience to work on one of my own - you know, screw up someone else's house, first. :-D Then I fixed up one of my own and now I'm finished. That's it. Never, never, never, never, never ad infinitum. I'll live in a tent before I go through any of that again.

And to do it for a living? Gosh, I've had some pretty tough financial times this past year, but I think things would have to get a lot worse before I'd consider doing any of that for a living. Maybe if I find myself living in that tent, I'll reconsider.

Like all things it's hard the first time you do it, including sex they tell me, but you get better at it the more you do it. Muscles tend to hurt when you get them to do things they are not used to but in time the pain goes away as the body becomes accustomed to the new work load.

All in all it was nice of you to help hubby and I am sure he appreciated it.

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to what you say, lol....Lets just say he owed me big time for helping him.

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I'm the exact opposite. I have done a lot of home improvement things, and I love doing it.

My favorite thing that I've done- One time, we were going to knock down the bottom part of a wall on two sides. We wanted to put storage under our staircase so that in my daughter's bedroom we could build a storage place for her toys, and in the dining room, there would be room to slide a bench underneath the stairs, and pull it out when we wanted to eat. The plan was, we were only going to knock out the dining room side that day.

I start demolishing the wall, which was one of the few drywall walls in our house. Most are plaster, which are much messier and more difficult to take down. I make a hole about a foot around and look behind it, and then start yelling. "Oh my god!!! R. get in here!!!!!" He started thinking, "Oh sh*t. She's started knocking out a supporting wall, I knew I shouldn't have let her do this. What a bad idea." He gets in there and he's braced for the worst news possible. I tell him to look inside the hole. At that point, he's probably thinking there's a dead body. When he looks inside, he realizes why I started shouting. There was the most incredible woodwork back there, and they had covered it up to close off the stairwell from both sides. Well, that got him excited about taking down the wall and refinishing the stairway. We tore down the wall, removed the studs, removed the carpet, replaced the bottom tread, put in a newel post and handrail (okay, that part I've got to do again), and installed a wrought iron railing with decorative scroll work. It was a hell of a project, but definitely worth it.

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failed all the times, miserably, the only thing i could do was fixing the electric faults.