To me, a cave implies an empty space.
If you have ever seen pictures of my garage you know damn well there isn’t any empty space.
As for skills, I have a few…
I may suck at quite a few things but you get skills by repetition and I try hard not to let fear of failure stop me.
My mistakes just go back into the “materials” pile.
my man cave is a large shop behind the house. mucho tools and fun, peace and quiet. the house is my DW’s she cave. i eat and sleep there. it works out good for both of us.
You’ve seen my garage as well, no man cave there. Although I did clean off one on my work benches so that my boy and I could work on our RC Trucks somewhere else other than the kitchen table. Still hope to make enough room to get my old Nova in there sometime this spring.
Eric.
My mistakes just go back into the “materials” pile.
Yep… Except for the spectacular failures. They go on a wall.
My entire house is my man cave.
Yup. Mistakes get welded to something that is really broke.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
I retain the remnants of a couple generations of “guy stuff.” I call it “the junk pile,” but it includes horse-drawn farm implements, wood & steel fence posts, automobile parts, steel in all its common forms (plate, rod, angle, etc) as well as a few vehicles, fencing materials, and errata. The good stuff (tools, etc), resides under cover in sheds, barns and shipping containers. Or security vessels. Praise the Lord and, you know.
Jerry it’s not a junk pile it’s a stuff pile.
Man cave is a weird thing. I don’t like the term. Most of the ones I’ve seen online are sports bars in the house.
Mine is a shop. And it looks a lot like yours Phil. It’s got a floor I haven’t seen in quite a while, and has more stuff waiting to head inside.
Exactly! My wife’s ex-little boss rich bitch had their annual Christmas party at her house one year. Whilst the women’s were talking women’s stuff, the men went to the bitch’s husband’s man cave. Sports bar, a shrine to K-State and the Chiefs. No tools, no guns, no automotive stuff, no pictures of fish. Complete space and money.
WWW does he live in a high school house(flies the flag having never attended) or did he actually go to K State, ask him next time.
Just finished the last piece of metal on a new roof for my outside man cave. Took me pretty much a month ! A piece here and there between rain storms.
Been a long time wish list !
Yesterday my wife said the handle on the lid of the slow cooker was rattling and asked if I’d take a look at it. The lid is glass and the handle is plastic with an aluminum screw and plastic washer holding it in place. After 20+ years the plastic washer had broken and now it wobbles. It should have been a rubber washer in the first place. So out to the workshop that makes Phil’s look like a fine lady’s parlor and search through the hundreds of “Hillshire Farms” ham containers that have all the hardwares I have collected over the past 50 years just for moments like this. Ahhh, there they are, right where I left them. Slow Cookers back in business. That workshop may look dysfunctional but that is just camouflage to keep everybody out. Well, the spider webs help too.
BTW, the only people that use the words “Man Cave” are labia owners and ladybois. If someone utters those words in your presence you are required to punch them in the face.
And they call them, “MAN” cave. Shops are on a totally different level as is mine, as is yours.
I have a “Man Cave”, the wife got me a sign. It has a couch, reefer, sink, microwave, dishwasher, full bath, bed room, library, motorcycle parking. No TV or bar but a door to downstairs workshop. Garage is upstairs and has built in secondary workshop with wood working tools. It gets a might warm in there in the summer so hence air conditioned facilities on the lower level. Note upstairs has a second library and office for me. 90% of the time when stuff breaks I fix it, the other 10% I write a check.
Spin
the first time I heard ‘mancave’, I found it repulsive. still do. a woman came up with that. it sounds as if she gives a man permission to have a workshop