Doesn't surprise me at all! This is how men think, purely in practical ways. They needed a table, you had a table. End of story. Glad he cleaned it up, though.

I might have been tempted to tell him to buy you a new table. What I'd like to know is was there a project on your table and if so what did they do with it? I know I get testy when people take/use my things without asking permission, so I sincerely doubt I would have been nice about it.

I would see many shades of red!

Not in my house!!!!!

That one takes the cake...or table!!! Too funny to be angry, but I'd give some serious consideration to a nice lock. Oh my gosh, I don't know what I would do.

They must be comfortable with you, to know you are a sharing person...good on you!

I have a 6' folding table that I have a 2'x4' piece of plywood wrapped for ironing on. Cleaning a dear on it and then cleaning the table wouldn't affect my ironing at all. It's just a plastic table and some bleach would clean it all. No problem for me.

I think some of you missed the HUMOR in the post... lol..way too funny..

It's amazing how many only see meanness in such a harmless act. I think the family is a cheerful and loving bunch of people!

I don't think it was mean at all, but personally, if that happened in MY house, I'd be horrified and furious.

BUT, I'm a vegetarian and have been my whole life long. If someone was close enough to me to have access to my sewing room they'd well know my lifestyle, so if that happened in my house it WOULD have been done out of meanness; or at minimum out of a deep lack of respect. And that would make me very angry! (Fortunately that's highly unlikely though. Not a lot of hunting going on in my suburban neighborhood and not a lot of disrespectful people allowed in my home!)

But I'd probably weep like a baby if someone butchered a deer at my house anyway, even if my sewing stuff wasn't involved at all! To me, they are not dinner, they're cute. (Yes, I know they're edible pests, but they're CUTE edible pests.)

To each their own though, I don't begrudge hunters securing their meal (in fact I think if you shoot it, you BETTER eat it), I just don't want it happening in my sight or in my house, and definitely not on my sewing table!!

Or using my stainless steel mixing bowls to mix CEMENT !! DONT ASK !! :eek:

If the deer population is not thinned out they get diseased and die a long horrible death, even the cute baby deers. Hunters keep the deer healthy. The only other option is mass killing by the Game and Fish or poison. Not a good idea.

In my house, I have certain things that belong to me only and that means hands off. If they need to use something of mine they need to ask and I don't mind sharing. However, in this case not to be mean but im sure there are other ways to butcher a deer such as using a piece of ply wood or boards set up for that purpose. Yes the story was humorus in one way. I know what it takes to butcher a deer as I have hunters here but in no way would they get a table of mine that I use for sewing etc. No matter how good they clean it. I don't mean to sound selfish but some things just will not do here. Im glad they were blessed with natures bounty.

That is so funny, they do the craziest stuff dont they?

So, when you cut up meat on a cutting board...is it not clean after it is washed? I mean I understand butchering is not exactly the same as slicing a tenderloin. But, really, isn't that what soap (bleach) and water is for? I hope I would have had the presence of mind to respond as you did, allowing the rolling of the eyes to do the talking, and not jump off the deep end. Family is more important than a piece of plastic.

Many years of laughter coming...and the opportunity to roll your eyes again when he complains about his own offspring borrowing his screwdrivers and hammers to dig Barbies new swimming pool and then leaving them in the dirt.

Oh my, you are a good mom...I agree..they needed a table and mom always comes to the rescue. Enjoy the venison.

Still chuckling. Very creative on his part. After all "Necessity is the Mother of invention".He did clean it. And I would rather them cut it up outside than inside. Do make sure that table was disinfected. My husband got a terrible , terrible rash from a parasite than was on a dear carcass one year. But that another story. Better safe than sorry.