to say women who live with men don't own power tools

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Iooking at the early responses, I maybe asked the wrong question, many women are responding that they own "small" tools or "small" toolboxes, but not the power tools,

so basically the same again

YABU- I am a woman living with a man, and I own power tools, or share equal ownership of the power tools in our household

YANBU - I am a woman living with a man, and he owns the power tools in this house, or mostly owns them

Again, if you don't live with a man, please don't vote, but please comment

I do, mine are different to my DH as I do slightly different tasks. Mine are also more manageable. I have smaller sanders and tools generally as I am petite and have small hands, I find smaller tools easier to use.

YABU for having two threads asking the same question.

I own the power tools. They were second hand ones gifted to me by our now retired handy man. Best gift ever.

My DH can’t (won’t) change a lightbulb. I chose to sort his shoe laces out this morning because he was planning on chucking them away to buy news ones. I saved him a tenner . Idiot.

My DH owns the power tools. Frustratingly I can't actually operate a lot of them, eg the chopsaw, because my hands are too small. Would if I could, but they don't seem to make child size ones!

I find the idea that as a couple who have been married for more than 20 years, the tools are MINE or HIS.

I owned some power tools, and so did dh when we met.
Me moved in together and combined tool boxes.
When we needed something we bought it.

But I must admit, I am not a great DIY fan. I am perfectly capable or using them, but it is a chore. My dh loves DIY, loves building and fixing stuff, so he uses them more than me. And I might have given him one or two over the years for presents.

On the other hand, I do all the gardening, and all the decorating/painting. Dh hates painting! So the sander belongs to me.

I see them as his (he bought them and uses them) but there to share iykwim, I could use them if I want to but don't... I'd actually rather DH would pay a professional to the jobs rather than blunder on on his own

If I lived alone I'd buy what I needed if I need it.

I'd say equality was there but it's rather a poor and ineffective tool pardon the punof measuring it.

I got a jigsaw and a chainsaw for my birthday this year. Clearly your theory is bs

Trying to think what we have. They would be mine, in that the non-power tools are mine and I'm much more practically minded than my DH.

I own all the tools. Spouse is not allowed to touch anything other than pliers and screwdriver, because every time he picks up a tool he breaks either the tool or the thing he's applying the tool too.

isle? And you're a teacher?

DP and I moved in together when I finished uni. He’s 7 years older than me, so had lived with mates for quite a while at that point and he’s also very good at and keen on DIY - his dad taught him. He has a big box of tools and I have not used a screwdriver since DT in year 9.

They're ours as whatever we buy is ours but I'm not going to use them. Hate DIY, hate getting dirty and then having to pay someone more than it would have cost in the first place to fix what I've messed up.

But DH is shit at anything more than putting a picture up so he doesn't use them either.

But they are ours.