Does anybody else have little fix-it DIY chores that they keep putting off until their spouse throws a fit?

For me, it's the drawers on the kids' dressers that keep jumping off the sliders. I'm not handy, but I'm also cheap, so all the kids dressers are from either IKEA or Unpainted Arizona, so the sliders are all cheap as shit and have all broken.

All broken. All three kids have a dresser with one or fewer functioning drawers. I get called in to put the thing back on the track, which, until this morning seemed "fixed" to me.

My trigger for actually repair something is the phrase "I can't live like this," usually accompanied by tears.

I understand that I'm a bad husband. My question is: Are there others out there?

Mine was completing a bathroom renovation that all we had to do was attach the baseboards, touch up paint, and just general clean up. It took me over a year to do it and finally my wife took it upon herself to finish it.

I'm not the handiest person in the world so sometimes my wife has to threaten doing them herself in order for me to do it. The next ones my wife will get on to me about is fixing some walkway lights and painting our guest bath.

Towel racks

Hole in garage ceiling

light in the closet

i could go on

Are there other what? unfinished projects? oh hell yea. Bad Husbands? Nope, just you. (Dude, come on, plates, for presents. No, you're never gonna live that down on the interweb.)

Like BJ, we've had this unfinished bathroom, the only one in the house, for THREE years... we redid it just before TheBoy arrived, but I never did the trim, and the masonite "tile board" we used just went to hell. Don't EVER use that shit.

At this very moment, the same guy who reno'd it last time, and told me to spend the extra money to do tile then, is finishing up tiling the shower/bathtub walls. Livin' and learning. I also told him that he must put up the trim, because clearly, I wasn't gonna.

My task is now to paint the ceiling (been needin' that for all 3 years too), repaint the walls, and paint the trim. TheWife was already stoked to see trim around the door and window. If I get the painting done by the Saturday evening, I'm golden. At least for a little while.

I'm generally the one who has the neurotic meltdown in my household. But I don't share it, so I get pissed, depressed, and then accept that it's not that important and then just do whatever it is myself, eventually. (Turn your pants right side out before you stick 'em in the laundry ffs! Empty the lil' trash can before it's overflowing, or just frkn tell me and I'll do it! You're killin' me here! - All normal conversations with myself.)

She has taken on projects that really bugged her, that I wasn't concerned about and made it clear that I wasn't gonna do 'em. (Stripped and painted a door, and refinished the wood floor in a small room. Door was quick, but the floor took her almost a month. But they both looked great, much to my surprise.) We have no problem sayin' to each other that "If it bothers you that much, do it yourself." I'll usually add, "I'll get to it eventually, but it's not on my priority list right now." Just so I don't get nutted.

DaddyBrad, I'm doing well doin' dishes and keepin' the sink clean and clear! Daily! 10 minute dish washin' sure beats 45! Laundry too! (I'm such a girl.)

DaddyClay, imagine if you will the personal satisfaction of a completed job well done if you were to fix ALL of those drawers in one day. (Don't count on an "attaboy" from anyone else, because she'll just say, "Bout time.")

Short answer: Choose your battles Mrs.DaddyClay. Choose your battles wisely.

You know what I consider a bathroom remodel? Changing the toilet paper roll.

Nik, your DIY is not my DIY. I'm just not ready.

Part of this is my Failure to Ever Own a Home. Renters just don't do this kind of stuff. But my drawers are causing serious stress, so action is called for.

Ordinarily, I would take the completely rational stance of throwing out all the dressers and buying new ones. Especially at those times when I'm a rich millionaire. Which I am not at the moment.

Brad, do you mind taking care of that?

In the meanwhile, I am gonna take on these drawers. Today. Now.

Good luck with the drawers DC. YooKanDooEet!

House reno is easy for me now. I just need a pen, and a checkbook.

All I'm on the hook for in the bathroom this time is painting. Painting is easy. (still not happy about it)

(Said handyman is starting on replacing 16 windows tomorrow.)