to say women living with men don't own toolboxes

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straw poll!

I don't really know if this is true, I just want to see what the response is on here!

YABU - I live with a man, and I own a toolbox, or share equal ownership of the household toolbox

YANBU - I live with a man, and the toolbox in our household is his property, or mostly viewed as his property

If you don't live with a man, please don't vote! Although, please comment as much as you like.

This is one YABU that I am hoping to "lose"!

Thank you

I have my own, I hate chasing around for a particular screwdriver or measure so I have my own. It's coloured so I can spot my tools if someone else uses one and leaves it around the house.

As the children head towards late teens some have been given their own too. I don't own a drill though. We have 2 but neither feel mine.

I also have a hidden stash of Allen keys cos the bugger loses them, and I definitely own the most pairs of pliers in the house - but that's because they're all jewellery making ones and I inherited a LOT from a project my parents ran that did workshops for that as part of what they offered.

I am naturally untidy and my OH is ADD, so we have good systems in place to keep us right!
Shared tools, coloured boxes in the garage depending on the type of tool- garden, decorating, woodwork etc.
Knowing where everything is helps the chaos that we may slip into!

The toolbox is mine be but it never gets used much by either of us.

YABU. We merged our toolboxes when we moved in together and I had more tools than him

The tool box theoretically belongs to both of us but I bought most of the tools. The electric drill and sander are mine.

I would love to have my own tool box but I've never invested in one because I know DH would constantly take the tools for his own use and then leave them lying wherever he was when he finished the job. So I'd need a lockable toolbox and some very secure hiding place for the key. I just have to live with never being able to find the right tool for the job. I do have stashes of mini screwdrivers hidden in pencil pots for emergencies.

My (stbx) husband is a dickhead about "his" toolbox. If I ever get it out to get a tool he asks what I'm doing and makes sarcastic comments about my abilities in DIY. Thanks for this thread. It's another reminder that I'm doing the right thing.

I can't see voting options on the mobile app, but I live with a man, I own the tools box and do all the DIY (he is uselss at it)

Evenly split here. I'd say the main toolbox is mine, as in I purchased it and most of the tools contained within, based on my preferences/requirements. However it's for family use, so anyone is welcome to dive in for whatever they need.

Meanwhile, DH inherited the majority of the power tools. But again, they're available to anyone for whatever needs doing. DIY and repairs are split evenly between us.

YABU - I have the tool box and use the tools more than DH. He is not DIY minded at all.

ALL of the tools were mine when we lived together.

YABU

I live with a man and own a toolbox. It's 100% mine. He woukdnt have clue what to do with it.

I own most of the tools, but I do let him borrow them

It is his toolbox but I had a small Head bag for my tools that got amalgamated with his.
My tools were a screwdriver set, snub nose pliers, a palm size rectangular wooden block for folding sandpaper around, a brad awl, a scary plane that was grandad's etc. I have never used the plane, too heavy.

YABU. I've bought a few tools and I'm welcome to use any of the tools. we both work on the cars, houses etc as DP is in property and I like helping. I have free reign on the garage/tool cupboard!

I had one but his tools are so much better I use his when he is out. He knows but as long as I don't leave them dirty isn't bothered at all.

Yabu, in my home anyway. Might be true more generally.

That's an interesting point. The sewing box is definitely mine. DH will ask permission to use it when he needs to sew buttons on etc.

I have quite a lot of sewing boxes. And cabinets. And cupboards.(most of this is for my work, but my private collection on its own is still fairly large) My husband, however, is in charge of mending, so he uses "my" sewing supplies quite often. If he wants something I've only just acquired, something expensive, or he needs a new box of something then he asks, but otherwise he just helps himself.

The toolbox is mine, now ours. I do 80% of the DIY. Sewing box was and remains mine - although DH has offered to try sew buttons etc on things before, it’s just quicker if I do it

The toolbox is mine, I do all the DIY. I love my toolbox.

What my Dad taught me about DIY is to be the skivvy to my Mum who did all the DIY. She hung the wallpaper my Dad mixed up the paste.

When I moved in with Dh his Dad hadn't taught him anything and I was the one who knew how to do stuff. Difference was I grew up poor where my parents' owned a Haynes manual to fix the car, tin can repair for the exhaust anyone? Dh grew up middle class so had trades people in for everything including a gardener who does a moss treatment on the lawn for them.

We share a tool box which was bought by my Mum and still referred to as Mum's toolbox. We have lived together for 24 years though so we have a lot of tools and we do pretty much all DIY ie install bathrooms etc.

I can say hand on heart that he’s never once felt the need to use anything out of my sewing basket! Let alone my sewing machine. Funny, that….

My dad was just as likely to use the family sewing machine s my mum. More so in fact! He used to do all the DIY though whilst mum was the labourer/skivvy.

YABU - I live with a man and have my own toolbox. Granted I had it since before we lived together, but still 😁

I not only have a toolbag (not a box), it is purple and has purple tools in it so I know if anyone borrows them without asking that they are mine. I have my own power tools and workbench. DH often asks to borrow them because mine are better/different than his.