5 Days Post-POE - GREAT!

[slim 1,514]

why won't she use the clothes dryer?

Dry machine takes some getting used to. After a few times of hanging clothes in inclement weather, she'll come around.

She will not clean the lint filter.

My indication that my wife has been doing laundry.

if her man looks bad, she looks bad to other women.

This is basically the justification that I've had. She doesn't want me to bring down her status because I look so terrible.

[ONA 133]

How? Like a malenki tornado! No questions asked. She just began picking through my clothes and boom!...suddenly many of my clothes disappeared. No questions...no answers. She follows the NIKE credo, "Just do it!" :-)

No question about the clothes! The problem is the deer head on the wall in (wait for it!) our BEDROOM. If I take this thing off, I'm in trouble

[eekee 182]

Just move all of his stuff into his MAN CAVE.

[mawilson 2,133]

This is basically the justification that I've had. She doesn't want me to bring down her status because I look so terrible.

So why is she with you?

[Diana and Chris 25]

I'm sorry to "butt in" here, but for me (a Guatemalan Girl that's doing her POE shortly) all these posts have been very amusing, laughable, and yes, have given me ideas for things I can do to my future hubby (muahahaha *evil laugh*) So keep 'em coming gentlemen... I want to know more, and more importantly... I want to know the secrets to not being doomed to the Walmart Clothes once I get there. xD (I mentioned there being lots of "Forever 21" shops around Dallas and I could hear the crickets on his side of the mic... haha)

Although this post was written with a comical sent to it, he does remind me constantly the importance of saving up, that $20.00 are not the same as my regular Q.20.00 of my native Guatemala, and that even if he makes the same amount of $$ I made in QQ the expenses of living are not the same.

Cheers and good day!!

Dee.

[ryna 132]

Ah yes... After 7 months, there are now curtains hanging in front of every window (instead of the blinds that the builder agreed to throw in when I bought the house) and any space visible to guests is now off-limits to storage. So far, I've managed to maintain control of the garage but I'm sure that too will end when she gets her license and own car.

And, speaking of garages, when the neighbor across the street dragged everything out of theirs to sell, the first thing she asked me was "People here sell their used things they don't want anymore? And, there are people who want to buy them?" She was amazed at the number of people that showed up all morning and afternoon long to look over and buy someone else's stuff.

[ryna 132]

Nor will Mrs. T-B., no man. Keep these stories coming, si man!

My wife has adjusted quite nicely to the clothes dryer and dishwasher after having only a washing machine in Bogota (which was more than the boulder, bucket and scrub brush combination used where her parents live.) During one of the first conversations she had with her mother after arriving, she told her mother how her coat was washed and dried in under 2 hours!

Oh, and yes, I was made to go through the wardrobe reduction/elimination process. Is this good? Or bad? Fit you or not? etc, etc, etc...

Edited July 21, 2011 by ryna

[Captain Hammer 113]

Wow, where are you guys finding these women that have never seen a dishwasher? You see them even in "the village" these days.

[Dave-n-Oksana 49]

Wow, where are you guys finding these women that have never seen a dishwasher? You see them even in "the village" these days.

Oksana knows what a dishwasher is, she just does not see the need to use it. She keeps telling we have 2 already...Our Daughters

Dave

[slim 1,514]

So why is she with you?

Something about a roller coaster and.... I couldn't directly translate the rest but she was out of breath when she was saying it. Her friend just said something like, mmmmm hmmmmmmm.

I mentioned there being lots of "Forever 21" shops around Dallas and I could hear the crickets on his side of the mic... haha)

Forever 21 is the spot!

I took my little brothers to the mall a few years ago and taught them how to strategically position themselves for peak female observation. "See, you want to be right between forever 21, victoria's secret, and the ladies room. Every single woman who's young and beautiful will go to all three of those places each time she visits the mall. If you sit right *here* you can make eye contact and smile at each one."

They thought I was a genius.

Wow, where are you guys finding these women that have never seen a dishwasher? You see them even in "the village" these days.

You won't see one at my house.

She keeps telling we have 2 already...Our Daughters

I tell my wife we have one (her) and she doesn't respond too well.

[Captain Hammer 113]

Oksana knows what a dishwasher is, she just does not see the need to use it. She keeps telling we have 2 already...Our Daughters

LOL!

[eekee 182]

I'm sorry to "butt in" here, but for me (a Guatemalan Girl that's doing her POE shortly) all these posts have been very amusing, laughable, and yes, have given me ideas for things I can do to my future hubby (muahahaha *evil laugh*) So keep 'em coming gentlemen... I want to know more, and more importantly... I want to know the secrets to not being doomed to the Walmart Clothes once I get there. xD (I mentioned there being lots of "Forever 21" shops around Dallas and I could hear the crickets on his side of the mic... haha)

Although this post was written with a comical sent to it, he does remind me constantly the importance of saving up, that $20.00 are not the same as my regular Q.20.00 of my native Guatemala, and that even if he makes the same amount of $$ I made in QQ the expenses of living are not the same.

Cheers and good day!!

Dee.

I've never bought clothes at Walmart, but forever21 is very cheap. My jeans cost 11.50$.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Ah yes... After 7 months, there are now curtains hanging in front of every window (instead of the blinds that the builder agreed to throw in when I bought the house) and any space visible to guests is now off-limits to storage. So far, I've managed to maintain control of the garage but I'm sure that too will end when she gets her license and own car.

And, speaking of garages, when the neighbor across the street dragged everything out of theirs to sell, the first thing she asked me was "People here sell their used things they don't want anymore? And, there are people who want to buy them?" She was amazed at the number of people that showed up all morning and afternoon long to look over and buy someone else's stuff.

I have only the room above the garage now and a corner of the basement for my reloading stuff.

Speking of garages, Alla backed out yesterday and I STILL cannot figure out why she has to take the wheel and start cranking it one way or the other when she backs out! She goes striaght in, just go straight out! But she comes out in some convoluted S curve that ends up having one fender or the other barely clear the edge of the door. I cannot figure out the difficulty she has!

Oh yeah, Alla was thrown off by garage sales..."What is it?" When you tell her she had the usual response "Vooooooowhat? I want to look at it...POYDEM!"

[Ban Hammer 12,839]

if you're here just to stir things up, you may find yourself the winner of today's thread ban award.

[Tanya and Barry 59]

Same thing happened at my house. ALL my work clothes, the ones with some paint or grease stains, were gone. Thrown out. What am I supposed to wear when working on the car or painting? My wife would also not use the clothes dryer. I had to put up a clothes line outside. Was OK until Florida rainy season. Now she only uses the dryer. Also, she saw the dishwasher and asked "what is this?" "Can we get rid of it?" We are using the dishwasher a lot more now, but not always.

Tanya always uses the clothes dryer after I explained its operation. I ask her to use the dishwasher once a month so the plastic tubing doesn't dry out and crack. It gathers cobwebs:-) As far as shopping there is an express bus to the mall with Penney's and Macy's. Ive tried to explain that 80% off really isn't 80% off to no avail. She is amazed at the low cost of clothing here. Every once and a while I get a frown at a fashion choice I have made for myself--but I'm like Slim--unflappable and unchangeable in the fashion sphere:-) She has gone more casual for trips to Walmart and the corner market. She even wears her "inside casual" clothes on trip trips to the ice cream joint in the car. I tease her that she is now an "American Girl."

Edited July 22, 2011 by Tanya and Barry