"My wife is too cool." Topic

She has set aside a place in the kitchen for me to do my painting and has had the contractor build me a closet in our new addition just for the storage of my minis. I kinda lost my gaming room when the new baby (#4) came along…but she relizes my hobby is important to me and has done her best to allow me the ability to continue with it…

LIES!!!!

She's a keeper! That is cool.

Does she have a sister……:)

Very nice of her.

She didn't just make you go paint over at DropZone? :)

Hold on to that one with both hands!

Lucky Man!!

Outstanding

Does your closet have a door latch on the inside of the door, too?

That's a good marriage and partnership Stepman3.
yes, there's always the Dropzone in Glen Burnie, but its not nearly as close as the kitchen:-)
Joe

Stepman3;
Give her a great big hug and tell her how much you love her…oh and get her some roses just because on your way home tomorrow!!

When my wife "forced" us to move 10 years ago, she found a house with a mini-kichenette in the basement…it is my painting room…smallest room in the house, but it is all mine. She then decorated the big room in the basement so that it looks like a castle…it is my gaming room. She even goes to Historicon with me and volunteers there and plays games!! She too is a keeper. She has a sister…I would only give her to Gollum as she is the complete opposite of my "Sweetie"!!

We few, we happy few. We band of brothers.

Those of us with wives who encourage us. They are definitely keepers.

My most sincere congratulations!

Mine is the same. I hear horror stories about partners who make them late for gaming, demand they sit around the house rather than get out and game etc. It's give and take, I game, then I do the chores while she goes out.

She tolerates my painting table in the office and the half painted stuff all over the shelves, the fact the garage now contains a 12 foot wargames table. The fact the utility room sink is covered in paint most of the time, and now the fact I am making roads for my new venture which takes up 2 whole days a week and has led to there being stuff everywhere!

She is one in a million. If you have one, you are lucky.

Jaz
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I am fortunate as well. Not as fortunate as some, but fortune is fortune.
My Wife not only tolerates my Wargames addiction. She caters to it. I have the largest room in the house for my den of destruction. It adjoins the kitchen.
She's not much of a gamer herself, but she collects StarTrek and StarWars action figures in large numbers.

Don't let her fool you. She put you in the kitchen to wash dishes!!

Larry R,
If your referring to my post. Our son does the dishes. As he's doing as I type this. It's good to be the King!

Like several of us you are blessed.

Congrats to you. I am another lucky painter. My wife likes my hobby and the fact I'm home doing it rather than hitting the bars. These are rare women, with understanding.

You lucky guy.

My wife is the only person I know with more soldiers than me.
She does not accept that 1000 28mm Confederates is 'sufficient'.

Stepman 3

So let me get this straight-- you HAD a wargame room, when #4 came along you lost it. So how big was the kid when he was born? He doesn't need much real-estate till oh- 4.

She then had the contractor built a CLOSET for you in the new addition (no new wargame room for you in the addition, but you get a CLOSET!) which can be converted for the needs of #4 or even #5 when they come along. So you went from having your stuff out to having to put it away and bury it.

She then set up a small area for you to paint in the KITCHEN-- the most busy room of the house, the hosue where the family eats its meals and the food is cooked, where you will always be in the way and will be susceptable to the "Honey I REALLY need more space for this Sunday's company, can you put your stuff away for a few days?" tactic.

OK, let me try and put this in perspective for you.

Last year Austria was incorporated by Germany in the "Anschluss."

Later in the year the Munich Agreement gave Germany the Sudetenland and in early the following year Germany annexed all of Bohemia and Moravia.

It is now 1939

And you are Poland.

I told my wife your story.

She grinned and said halfway through the list above.."And she's going to do to his little kitchen-korner painting table what the Nazi's did to Poland."

She's not a gamer but she quoted me chapter and verse how the woman of the house will do it.

Contrary to the above, you will be close to your wife so you can chat while she does the cooking or make you coffee and give you donuts/apple pie etc.
Pity about the gaming room, build a lean to for the summer.

So Schmidt-ee, how much room do you have? If you have an entire room, great…My wife knows that my painting is important to me and has done what she could to accomodate my vice. The kitchen has a sizable "nook" that fits my paint station and shelves along with some storage.

"She's not a gamer but she quoted me chapter and verse how the woman of the house will do it."

So that my be the way your ol'lady runs your house and maybe you cower down to it but I can assure ya buddy my wife is pretty cool about things and does what she can for me and my brood of kids…

I'm thankful for what she was able to do for me and my kid was a wee thing when born but the other 2 boys are big and healthy so im sure boy#3 will grow up the same and my daughter, I'll put her up against anyboy anytime…

Stepman 3

I have the ENTIRE FINISHED BASEMENT! (Finished it myself)

If you want I'll send you pictures, send me your snail mail.

This consists of

1.The 12 by 15 large family room (with wood burning stove) with display cases for my games, soldiers ships, some of my library and a 8 x 8 dog-leg on this which has more book cases and display cases. It's not really a basement, the house is a raised ranch and the basement is above ground.
My wife's desk and computer is under the stairs.

2. The 22 by 10 "office" which has more cases, models, books, my painting area, and my two computers (one for e-0mail, one for graphics and publishing) and my modeling table etc. Cases of collectable soldiers on the walls.

3. Also in the basement the alcove with the furnace and the other with the well pump has display cases for soldiers hung on hinges as doors which swing oopen to allow access.

4. The front porch is enclosed as is the area blow it, giving me an 8 by 18' storage area filled with racks, on the ground floor, most of which is my terrain, soldier storage etc, and the books I can't fit in my library.

5. Above this on the long enclosed front porch 8' x 18' is one part of my library under the windows which line both walls. I share this with my wife's collection of elephant statues.

5. The garage has my modelling tables and heavy duty terrain works.

6. The Living room, above the garage, 15' by 32' foot (also windows on all three walls, half of them floor to ceiling, (I live in the woods which come right up to the house) on the part with a hip-wall I have the rest of my library. There's about as many books in storage under the porch as in the book cases.

7. the Dining Room also has four bookshelves with my graphics library.

8. My wife is quite happy with this. When we got married and got the house we made a deal, I got the downstairs and she got the upstairs. But she likes the look of the books all over, and we're both multiple collectors. (Art, statuary, old books, in addition to the soldiers and ships.

If you want pictures as proof just let me know and send me your e-mail address and I'll send them to you. I have to take them anyway to send to builders in Maine to show them how I want my retirement home built, which will be essentially what I have-- only bigger.

As for Dot, oh no, you misunderstand, she was talking about YOUR wife, and you for being so foolish. She knows such things would never work with me, she's not even tried. She's not intersested in these games.

like I said, wanna see the pictures?

Dear Stepman 3

If you don't believe me, find Mike Lorenzo, or Mark Zaslavsky or others on this list who have been over for a game. They've seen it all.

Dear Schmidt, Thats wonderful and my intent isn't to get into a "whos d_ _k is bigger contest" Which Im so sure you would win that as well (seems you like to boast) but I'm grateful for what I have. And I don't need to see the pics of your awesome game layer or your d_ _k…

Hey! Don't get nasty now.

You came on with the nastys asserting that my wife ran the house and had me cowed. You were waving your d**k around -- about how great you had it with the chicken feed your wife lets you have, and I just cut it off. What are mad about? You got what you came for.

Don't ask questions if you aren't prepared for the answer.

I'm not bragging, just pointing out that again-- you are Poland and this is 1939.

Originally it was must a joke- you got nasty.

My wife also plays 20mm WW2 Indians, 28mm New Kngdom Egyptians and 28mm WW2 Germans,,,she also has a proper career whereas I stay at home and write books that no same person would read. Yeah..I'm bragging.