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My husband started a new project. One that isn’t on the honey do list, or even makes any sense as far as I’m concerned.
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But because he’s bored silly since the weather has turned and he can’t tinker outside? He decided our basement needed a ceiling.
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The area is neither heated nor finished…. so why he decided this, I don’t know.
What I do know is he’s thrown all my holiday decorating items into a giant pile and mixed the Xmas with the Thanksgiving and the Easter with the Halloween. Grrr…
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My little section of the basement was the only clean and organized part, so of course that’s the section he wanted to install a ceiling.
His part of the cellar still looks like this:
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Packed to the rafters with useless crap his treasure. (Please note my Christmas reindeer in the foreground. It did not have a broken, missing horn yesterday. 😠
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There used to be a path through this section but not anymore.
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This path now dead ends as well.
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The only remaining path to the stairs is starting to narrow as well. If he isn’t careful, he’s going to get trapped down there….
And at times? I think that might not be a bad thing.
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River's world..... 
Uh oh. I normally side with hubs on these projects, but…
So, how’s the weather in Maine?
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No snow. Green grass. Lots of rain. Had our first morning in the teens today.
And if you can figure out why the cellar needs a ceiling? Let me know.
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We have one, but we have a family room down there. It’s also a suspended ceiling so I can remove it to access stuff.
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That was my first complaint. He’ll have to rip the whole thing down if something needs to be worked on.
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So dust and various other falling things don’t cover all your holiday decorations of course. He’s thinking of you!
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Somehow, I doubt that.
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Give the man a break. He is the love of your life, after all.
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He is. But still…
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I’ve done a project like this, only on a considerably smaller scale. The amount of useless shit shuffling required to get anything done may give him cause for regret. If you’re gentle with his pride he may well decide that discretion is the better part of valor. Good luck.
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Once he starts something he rarely gives up. But I keep coming back to why. It’s such an unnecessary expense…
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Oh my, what a huge basement you have my dear! Literally it’s freaking ginormous, I mean compared to the ones around here. For the life of me I couldn’t find the broken horned reindeer in that picture. I did see a wooden rocking horse though.
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It’s about 2,000 square feet… which I thought was awesome when we moved in. Sadly it didn’t take long for the husband to fill it.
The reindeer is right there in front, in the red sweater. No rocking horse.
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Oh yes, I was looking at the wrong picture. I see it now……with the broken….horn/antler.
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I used to put him by our front door, but not anymore.
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Looks more a an xmas dog or bear to me. Reinfeer it is not.
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Wow! That is a lot of STUFF.
Instead of putting in a ceiling, he should start selling his STUFF ~ or, you know, give it away. 😀
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked him to do just that.
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Then who would you nag, nag, nag, nag at??? OH NO!!! NOT LORD DUDLEY!!!!
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I could, but I’d probably get swatted.
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Maybe you should try getting hubby interested in publishing his own blog so others can appreciate his creativity. Who can admire his handiwork when it’s out of sight down in the ‘dungeon?’
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My husband is a private person who despises social media. I blog on the down low, if he knew he was a frequent subject he would not be pleased.
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Oh my gosh. He’s got Cabin Fever, and it’s ONLY early December.
Did you ever see The Shining? 😳😳
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I have. And it makes me glad we don’t have topiary….
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LOL!!😜
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There isn’t a basement in town that doesn’t leak and flood when we get a lot of rain, so I’m happy not to have one. Then again, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind seeing the hubby’s “treasure” become sunken…
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We have a little breakthrough water now and then after heavy rains or snow melt in the spring but never a flood. Just enough so it’s damp and stinky.
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I always wonder why the stuff doesn’t get covered to stay clean or moved carefully. I also figure that if it were the precious fishing gear it would be handled with kid gloves. I never minded the projects, just the collateral damage. But he no longer does projects and sometimes I wish he did.
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I have no problem with projects, the ones that need doing…. but this one I can’t figure out. He’s insulating and putting up a ceiling in a space that isn’t heated. What’s the point?
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I am laughing so hard at this. Here’s to him getting trapped. 🤣
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Maybe if he got stuck down there he’d finally clean it up.
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Our basement has no ceiling, recently retired husband has time, but ours is a walkout basement so with two ways out it won’t be easy to trap him down there, should it come to that.
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That’s okay, you probably don’t feel the need to trap.
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We have an unfinished basement by design, it has no ceiling, and it won’t be getting one via us at least. I have been in a couple of places where they’ve had a ceiling as part of their finished basement, but to me a basement is still a basement.
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I’d understand it if we were finishing it… but we’re not. So… why?
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Ahh, well, a ceiling in the basement will only increase your home’s resale value. Seems like a harmless enough project (except for the mingling of your holiday decor).
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I doubt it will be a major selling point when they have to rip it down to inspect the pipes, ducts and wiring.
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