I like this answer and it would work for me, or I would just work on it myself until he came to help.

Ditto for me too. I'm too weak to move all that heavy stuff.
HA! But it works for me.

FOOD!!! works every time with mine!

My spouse thinks there's NEVER a good time to rearrange furniture. I either get it done myself while he's not home or if I can't finish it myself and am in the middle of it when he comes in he helps me finish. I'm always amazed at how much I can do myself.

All I can say is good luck. My sewing room is mine and his garage is his.

Homemade blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream! YUMMM

Honey do you need to ask?????? Be creative LOL

Fish net stockings might help!!!!!!!!!!

Look at next topic for today, right under this one "PROTECT YOURSELF...." Read it and tell him you are going to do just that, the happy dance on the front yard and take the first offer that comes along to help you if he doesn't!

When I need help I ask him what does he think, of the set up. But, usually we talk about it and then we do it together.

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This used to work with my first husband. I had a fence gate that was hanging low, wouldn't close and lock. After nagging didn't do it, I took a piece of an old Army blanket and nailed it over the fence gate..didn't do a thing for fixing it but looked trashy as heck. Right after dinner he took it down and fixed it neatly.
During that time i was making him his favorite Boston Cream Pie..(bought that day and hidden till then!!!) Well, okay, I was cutting him a big piece of it!

I'm 81 and make a really meaaaaaan Pineapple upside down cake! But that is as far as that goes!
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I am on the gulf coast of Tx....got any more ideas? LOL!

I am loving this one!!! Storing this away for future use!!

I am loving this one!!! Storing this away for future use!!

Priceless. I will have to remember this one for the future when I need something done.

OMG!! I don't have a husband any more. Sure could have used all this advice in those days. I am REALLY ROTFLMBO or whatever it is you say nowadays....

I have a dear friend (who is also on this forum) who over the past 40 years has learned that it is best for her if she asks her husband once. If he doesn't do it, then she does it herself or hires it done. No bribing involved and no nagging on her part either. He has learned over the years to do the things she asks, because he wants to make her happy. They are an extremely happy couple who love each other more now than when they first married.

This is so sweet. If he doesn't have anything in mind you could help him come up with a thing or 2 he'd like. My DH likes to see me happy and vice versa. We like to do things for each other. Just this morning I told him I was going to do some organizing in the sewing room and he asked if I wanted help! I told him only if he felt like it. So he moved some things around for me.

My husband is a painting/decorating contractor and I was begging to get one of the kids bedrooms converted (they have moved out). Waited and waited and waited. Well, when he went fishing for a week my daughter and I conspired to re-do the room. We gutted it, repainted it, built cabinets and shelves, etc. Was he surprised when he got home. The quality maybe wasn't up to his standards, but he didn't dare say anything. It has gotten him going on other "honey do" list - I think he's afraid I will start them. It's one thing to have my room not perfect - heaven forbid that the main part of the house not be. I guess it's like the old story - the shoemaker's kids go barefoot. My house is the last one to get the attention it needs.

Good one!

I'd much rather do it myself than to listen to my DH. I am wondering why I keep him around.

Mountain Deb,
Do you have a quilt store?

LOL! As if ~ ~ ~

Thats my tactic! Works 99% of the time.

I will do anything for you for that cake...I love it and don't know how to make it or any cake....lol

There are some smart men out there. This topic has me in laughter. As for my husband, I'm with the person who said hire help, use the credit card-mine is sensitive to the wallet.

UPDATE

He did help me rearrange the sewing room. I also bought a NewJoy quilting frame and he spent several hours putting it together for me. I think I'll keep him.