"My wife just doesn't understand" Topic

My wife just doesn't understand why it takes all this mess:

To just end up with this:

Hahaha! Good one!

Maybe the "workshop" shouldn't be in the living room but we don't have guests over that often anyway.

Ha ha, My wife just laughed at that one. Especially about 'all your crap' all over the dining room table.

I showed this to my wife and she was very confused… "You don't need that much stuff all over the place. Doesn't he put it away when he is done?" So now she is much happier with my hostile takeover of the bottom shelf of the linen closet for my hobby supplies…

If I put it away then I won't know where it is.Always better to be randomly strewn about the table for visual access. Well, not always better, but usually. I found that my wife focuses her negativity on this table and my hole-in-the-wall of a basement room, and lets many other things slide.Or that's what she would have me believe. These wives can be tricky to deal with and the less head-on confrontations regarding important matters is the most desirable state.Got to find balance somehow.

If its in the garage, what's the problem? If she's anything like my wife, she's taken up 2/3s of the closet space in the master bedroom so fair is fair. :)

@Robert Burke- only 2/3 of the closet space?????!!!!!!!????

I played in a 10,000 casting Napoleonic game on my honeymoon. That was 38 years ago…we are still married.

Hey Rudy,was that the one featured in a "Wargames Digest" back in the 70s,Leipzig,I think it was? Just curious.
It looked crazy,but inspiring.

On your honeymoon?!?! Still, 10,000 figures in a single game "once in a lifetime" wargaming opportunity to pass up.

Almost 10 years ago my wife found a very large and very beautiful curio cabinet on sale for a very reasonable price in the COSTCO catalogue and showed it to me. I called and found one, not in the closest COSTCOS but less than an hour drive away. I removed all the passenger seats from the minivan we owned at the time (back when we had 3 little kids), called my closest wargaming buddy to help me carry, load and unload, and got the last one in Southern California. It was perfect then and is still perfect now, and honestly means much more because she found it for me. My wife is not a fan of my hobby, and complains about it somewhere betwen "from time to time" and "often," but… she has never tried to make me give back that curio cabinet, so I consider myself a lucky man!

PS Rhingyll, I hear you about leaving it out so you'll know where everything is! Your shelves & table look the same as mine, but -- and I don't get to say this very often -- my hobby work-space may be a bit less messy.

well I have the 'Soldier room' and there aren't supposed to be soldiers outside of that -and there aren't apart from the stuff on the window ledge in the kitchen, the stuff on the bedside table and the game set up in the dining room which is a bit weird as I have a gaming table in the large attic.
I need to rein this in a bit.

Mess? What mess?! Looks like all is in order compared to my work area. I do need to consider an expedition into the back corners to fine the map I have to the lost Aztec gold in the Franklin mountains of Texas. But it's a dark and dangerous journey back there!

Fortunately for me, wife just doesn't care.

The vent was held at the Fort Hood Fiddlers Green complex. It took the entire floor. The Simcenter was regarded as too small. You are right. It was based on Leipzig. The event made both the area TV news and the Dallas newspaper. I do not remember the Wargamers Digest article but it may have been submitted by the umpire. Terrain was weak by today's standard but castings had motor priority back then. I was the Prussian commander
We used Bowden's Empire 2nd edition. As with most games we started too far apart for the meeting engagement.
The Russians and Austrians held the center. I had the left flank against an elite corps sent to break me and encircle the Austrians. The right flank was mired the entire game in a large town.

RudyNelson 15 Dec 2015 3:13 p.m. PST !
I played in a 10,000 casting Napoleonic game on my honeymoon. That was 38 years ago…we are still married.

But are you still married to that same women??

You can always do something like the following: Say you are going to meet up with your good old friend Crazy Eddie from college. Tell the wife that he is out of jail now and getting married for the 5th time. He wants to go out drinking with you and borrow some money, but you are not sure what to do, since you have a wargame that night. Ask for her advise. Your welcome.

1968billsfan – If she tells you to go out drinking with Crazy Eddie you might just want to come home unexpectedly early and find out what she was doing when you were out.