Order 10 yards of gravel for the driveway (the driveway will eat it up even if not needed). Hand her a shovel and rake and have her help spread it along the entire drive. You can only work on it when she is available... Now reproach her about the purchase.
Yes there is more to this than most realize and myself have almost forgot why now all I need to do is say I want it and the cost is justified, on bigger purchases she does ask a couple questions but it’s´ not really a hard sell.
Many years ago while trying to save money to build a new house. We lived in a small cheap place. The perfume wore off and that carpet stank. I decided to save some money by installing carpet myself. Went purchased all supplies needed and a few tools. Knowing the existing carpet was that god awful old glue down with the black backing that never comes up easy, the last tool I reached for was a rather expensive ( at least to her) floor scraper.
She protested with “that’s a lot of money! Do we really need that?”
I replied with something about we could get by without it but it it’s a pain in the 覧覧.
She said “if we dont need then we spent enough!
I only partially agreed and said that’s fine as long as you scrape up one half of the carpet backing. She foolishly agreed not knowing just how hard that stuff can be to get up.
We went home tore up the carpet and I tried my honest best to improvise a scraper that would work. After several attempts I handed her my best effort and said when your done your half I will do mine.
It took all of 5 minuets with her on her knees sweat pouring off her before she turned to me and said. “There has to be a better way” my answer was quick and direct with Rember that tool that tool you didnt want me to buy? she questioned my sincerity only once and then said lets go get it. We did and when we returned I handed her the tool and she quickly scraped up all the backing with almost no effort. She said that day that she would never question me or not let me have a tool from then on.
She has honestly lived up to that promise as I can not remember a time that she said no since, maybe a time or two when she asked me to hold off a project until she was more comfortable with the cost of something compared to our savings but not once has she asked me to simply do without or work around!
Got to admit I never thought of making a power point as mentioned later in this thread but wonder what results someone could get with a really good one?
