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I spent 5 hours following my husband from store to store looking for a new weed whacker last week.
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Don’t believe the people who tell you men hate to shop. When he’s looking for a new toy for himself? My guy will shop until I drop. We hit at least 7 different lawn and garden sections and then went back to the very first place we stopped so he could buy the very first one he saw.
And then?
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The man who owns a giant zero turn tractor and four push mowers… yes, four. Two of them self propelled. … started looking at new push mowers.
For me.
The person who doesn’t want one.
It was at that point I said enough… and made him take me for a nice late lunch.
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A fresh blueberry mojito was a good way to start.
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Every time I see this old tool art installation I want my husband to do something like it in the man cave.
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And every time, he says no.
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To start… it was butternut squash soup for the husband and some fabulous dry rub barbecue shrimp for moi.
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A basil limeade later?
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An amazing Bolognese with fresh pasta and a lamb, beef and pork ragu. It was so good I didn’t even notice what the husband ate.
Well worth 5 hours of tool shopping.
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River's world..... 
For a split second I saw myself contemplating a new lawnmower. Then I lost interest when I saw your pictures of your food, lol.
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You definitely earned that lunch.
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I think so too.
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That would be a cool installation.
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The ultimate recycling!
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He has your number, as they say and you have his.
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In. Buy what I need. Out. Five minutes tops.
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If I am by myself, that is…
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That is funny. As with my husband, the Home Depot and Lowe’s are a regular shopping excursion as he just finished the crown molding for our spare room. I use the time as an exercise excursion to get some exercise and sometimes to have silly meaningless attention from salesmen eager to help a blonde who appears dizzy. Now taking the husband shoe shopping, another story entirely. He needs to bring a book.
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I don’t mind comparison shopping, but he just couldn’t make up his mind.
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That sounds like me and the shoes. We have a relationship which is complex.
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There is something about basil and fruit. I once had a divine blueberry basil gelato shake
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I love herbs in my cocktails.
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I don’t know – five hours of shopping? Yikes, you’re a better wife than me!
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I like to do all of my research before I hit the stores, and in turn cut the shopping time down to a minimum. You deserve a gold medal for five hours of browsing aka shopping. You certainly earned that meal out.
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My husband is a hands on kind of guy. No research.
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That meal looked yummy. And I LOVE MOJITOS! Glad you both got something from your day out! Now I want a mojito. 🙂
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With fresh lime juice. I love them.
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OMG! your post borders on an Oxymoron! You ramble about how much time he spends looking for toys, and then you go and say this “Every time I see this old tool art installation I want my husband to do something like it in the man cave.”. You just gave him PERMISSION to go back for more shopping!
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I did not. He has a more than ample supply of tools to make art.
Lots and lots of art…
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Not the way he will see it. Of this I know. 🙂
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😀…today I spent 4 hours buying exactly 4 trousers and dragged my wife all the time ..she was absolutely patient and actually made the choices becoz I was behaving exactly like a man while shopping…confused 😇
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Ha!
Well at least you admit it…
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I guess we know what you’ll be unwrapping under the tree this Christmas.
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Don’t even joke about that!
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Lol!
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