to think I'm married to Frank Spencer?

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A day which will no doubt go down in family legend happened here today. After asking my DH to move his hammer out of the bathroom (! honestly why does he even consider this a decent place to keep it?!) after me moving it to his side of the bed to get his attention after me putting it in the shed and it being in the bathroom once more and him putting it back! he decided in fact his original plan of downstairs bathroom was optimum. This morning whilst I had baby in my arms toddler reached out and took the hammer and knocked a hole out of the side of the loo!!!!!!!! I've just spent the afternoon hunting down and paying my Christmas present money given to me by my lovely Grandad to a plumber for a new loo. I will also need to pay for new flooring in there now as the new loo doesn't fit. What a joy it is. I feel like I'm married to Frank Spencer.

Thanks hon. U made me laugh. Ur sense of humour will get u thru a lot of those frustrations. I admire u for that. And yes it does sound like he has a touch of Frank Spencer syndrome! Still there are many worse things. On a more serious note: I think he should pay for fixing the damage

annoying. but think of your lovely new floor, it will look lovely im sure x

New loo is nowhere near as nice as the last one it's smaller

sorry to laugh!

Ooooohhhhh, that sounds familiar.

In fact I have just bagged and binned a load of dps shite after finding a set of dumbells in the bottom of my chest of drawers

I do hope that Frank Spencer DH is going to be asked to refund your Christmas money - a loo for christmas is a really shitty present

On a more serious note, having to repay your present money might make him think a little harder about where he puts his tool in the future.

did you take a picture of the damage the toddler did?

"I've just spent the afternoon hunting down and paying my Christmas present money given to me by my lovely Grandad to a plumber for a new loo. I will also need to pay for new flooring in there now as the new loo doesn't fit. "
and why the fuck are you paying for it out of your present money??????

Your DH should be the one paying for it - imagine if it were an older child of yours that had left it lying around for the toddler to get hold of - you would dock their pocket money until it was paid for.
you bloody get it reimbursed by your DH.

Wages &tax credits are joint account money and pretty much spoken for in bills so the present money was the only funds available unfortunately :(

I was so busy trying to get a new loo as I'm potty training said toddler and can't cope for long without one and as soon as it happened started to silently fixate on needing the loo so i did find the camera to take a picture. Home insurance ha excess of £100 so there's no help there. :(

Fear I may, not on purpose i may add, become constipated through not being able to relax on the new but angst ridden loo. I'm sure I wont and I'll just get on but grrrrrrrr-

Just checked and cannot afford new floor :(

don't worry about the new floor for now - get one of those pedestal rugs to cover up the gap (you'll need to do that anyway if you're toilet training a toddler!!)
actually, get a couple....

Laughing my arse off!

I still think DH needs to find a way of replacing your present money. Even if he sells something of his to make it up.

It is totally unfair that his actions have caused this - if he'd put the bloody hammer away (and left it there when you'd put it away for him) then this wouldn't have happened. YOU should not miss out on money given to YOU as a gift because of his bloody stupidity.

You're all right of course.

I had a look. They're all "boggin" as they say here :(

Is your name Betty by any chance?

yes, they will be!
we got a nice bath mat from John Lewis in a very bright green, and they had some matching pedestals.

You'll be grateful for them when there's wee all over them!

here are the google results

arch I knew this was you! Give your DH a kick.

I shall be having a conversation with the offender about him raising the money perhaps by taking on extra work at around 8:30 tonight. Hope it goes well!

Hahahahaha. I feel your pain. My other half has some really fantastic ideas about where things are kept... Saw on the dining room table, when told to move it was moved to the windowsill, power drill on charge in the house permanantly, extention leads everywhere, our porch looks like a tool shed with various spanners/screwdrivers and spirit levels, grout, paint scrapers etc. Screw drivers and paint trays in the lounge for weeks because he cant get round to doing the last 2 metres of cutting in at the very top of one wall on the stairs (i'm scared of heights or would have done it myself) and the ladder sat on the stairs aswell awaiting use... a big iron step ladder lived in the bedroom for a few weeks. it was there so long he started using it as a bedside table. And one of my favourites, there is a "Horn antenna" that now lives in our house, I have no idea what it is for, but it's about 25 years old is basically a huge heavy plastic and metal dish thing that he thinks will one day be useful or that it could be valuable!!!. I move things outside but they tend to re-appear. We have 2 sheds.... I can't stand it. I told him to get them outside and his reply? "you have things in the house that you want, like candles and throws" ?!?!?! And then to top it all off.... over the past few months the only DIY he has done, was to take a shelf off the wall.... :(