Anybody else relegated to the basement?

[Harriw]

So I have a big ol' pile of scrounged range brass that I just finished cleaning and drying, and thought I'd be sociable and bring them upstairs to inspect in the family room with the wife while she watches TV and works on her lesson plans.... She had other thoughts (direct quote here):

"There are bullets in EVERY HOUSE in this ROOM!!!! Not here! Take those downstairs!!!"



So... anybody else have wives that don't allow them to sort brass in the family room?

 

[Ru4real]

I did, so we got divorced. Wife #2 two didn’t like it either, so I sent her packing also.

 

[euclid]

Bye.

 

[Dewey 68]

Your post made me laugh because my wife is a teacher and that's a frequent nightly activity for her as well. My wife is okay with me sorting or priming brass while we watch TV, it's sharpening knives on my Spyderco Sharpmaker that gets me the evil eye. "Shiiishh, shiiishh, shiiishh, shiiish"

 

[1976B.L.Johns.]

• 
  

Anybody else relegated to the basement?

I wish!

Wanted to build a room in our open basement...For reloading....Nope, but still working on it.

I reload in the Winter, in a spare upstairs bedroom. But if family are visiting, "You gotta put your toys away!"

In the garage just prepping brass during the warmer months.

Well, it works out!

 

[brewer12345]

Never got past the garage.

 

[Creed Bennett]

I let my wife have the house (she shed) and I built me a he house. It was the carport. I poured a concrete floor and added a 6 foot wide addition across the back for reloading and gun storage. I installed a Mitsubishi mini split (I’m a HVAC and Refrigeration Tech 36 years) and it’s a good controlled space for firearms and reloading components. The rest of the he house is for beer drinking and entertaining since my wife works third shift and sleeps all day. It’s worked out really well!

 

[kidneyboy]

Our basement is set up for gun stuff, art work, sewing and working out. It all stays down there. We have had that arrangement for a long time.

 

[George P]

Anybody else relegated to the basement?

What's a basement?

 

[Steve S.]

We have a finished basement with seven rooms so I occupy one of the rooms as my “gun room” - I do all of my “gun stuff” in that dedicated room - my wife did not direct me to the basement, I chose the room as a nice place to perform gun stuff and she had no problem with my choice - worked well for me and for her - happy wife, happy life, gun room as a bonus.

 

[Archie]

My reloading room is in the basement by my choice. But I have to admit I've been without a wife (legally) since 2010 and she bailed out physically before that.

I have converted (still in process) the master bedroom to my 'gun room' for display and organization of my various collections. I have a cat (or a cat has me, not sure) named 'Watson' who claims to be the world's only striped Jaguar. But he doesn't object to much when feeding time is on schedule.

There's a Lee-Enfield No 4-1/2 setting in pieces in my den. It is being sporterized at the moment.

Being 'single' has drawbacks. Also has benefits.

 

[Virginia Jim]

I taught my wife to use the RCBS priming tool. She taught me to roll canned biscuits for apple pies. Win-win.

 

[JTHunter]

She had other thoughts (direct quote here):

"There are bullets in EVERY HOUSE in this ROOM!!!! Not here! Take those downstairs!!!"

"HOUSE in this ROOM"?? What is your house? A "TARDIS"??
As for the wife, her brother hunted, and her B-i-L helped me get started in hunting in my late 20s. I didn't really getting into reloading until after we had gone our separate ways. The g/f I had after that never interfered with guns and reloading as I did take her shooting a few times as she wanted to know how to use the pistol and handgun I had at that time. We also went our separate ways after 15 years (never married) and now both have gone to "boot hill".

 

[Bush Pilot]

What's a basement?

It's where you store crap you bought and had good intentions at the time.

 

[MacAR]

My guns live in our bedroom. I clean them and work on them in the living room. Mrs. Mac doesn't much care, so long as I clean up after myself. But then we're a touch different than most. We actually live in our house. There are 12 dozen fresh eggs on our kitchen table right now waiting to be sorted tomorrow. She has a large basket full of yarn in the floor next to her. And lastly, there are no less than 800 books in/around our "reading nook" (what's a nook?), both hers and mine. At one point or another, there have been baby chicks and newborn calves in our house, so what's a little gunsmithing?

Mac

 

[BWS]

Haha,I built our house(grew up in a "contractor" family),furnish it(pro cabinet/furniture shop),decide on every facet of what goes on. Heck,it's even "my" kitchen,from designing/building it to using it because wife can't cook pop tarts without a fire alarm going off. And all of the several dozens of antiques in the house are from my business.

I have a very modest small spare bedroom on the main floor. There may be some guns out in the living room but all the loading stuff stays in it's place. Just easier keeping it in there. Wife just doesn't care about that stuff. She's a child development guru for the state(I put her through college) and is the type that if she had stayed single,never would've had 4 wonderful sons.... bunch of Gbabies.... and would've lived in an apartment with boxes of books N sheet everywhere. Our boys all call me Martha Stewart..... which they know is derogatory because I was dealing with professional interior design when she was still making craft junk out of paper cupcake holders 40 years ago,bwahaha.

Different strokes is all.

 

[KevininPa]

I did, so we got divorced. Wife #2 two didn’t like it either, so I sent her packing also.

You do know that collecting exwives is more expensive than our firearm hobby, right?

 

[bannockburn]

As far as I was concerned she could do whatever she wanted to the main floor and the upstairs...the basement always belonged to me!

 

[Demi-human]

Me man.
Man have ManCave.
ManCave in basement.
Take off shoe.
No trip over Caveboy’s club...

 

[jmorris]

No basements in homes in this part of the country.

I sort brass out in the shop.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

I wish I had a basement.

I'm planning an outdoor room to get some room to work.

 

[Ru4real]

You do know that collecting exwives is more expensive than our firearm hobby, right?

Yes, for sure! I’ve learned it’s approximately ten times more expensive getting rid of a wife than collecting one. Maybe the Mormon’s were on to something?

 

[Rbstuartjr]

I wish I had a basement as well. Nope it’s the un-conditioned garage for me, for now. Once the kids move out, that’s a different story!

 

[Hartkopf]

Mrs Hartkopf has sensitive ears (double ear protection when shooting) so too much clinking of brass bothers her. I'll prime brass while watching TV with the family but that's about it. Trying to sort brass quietly doesn't work. Luckily Mrs. Hartkopf doesn't complain about my hobbies and she likes shooting so I don't mind being stuck in the garage for most of my reloading.

 

[Master Blaster]

Married 36 years 2 grown (almost) children the basement is my fully equipped man cave. Why would I even want to sort brass in the living room?