Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Home Depot
This past weekend I went to Home Depot to get supplies to update my garage. It was interesting to see all of the females in Home Depot! To me, Home Depot = men because of home improvement. However, there were quite a few couples in the store shopping together. Rarely do you see a large number of couples shopping together in Home Depot. My assumption is that when home improvement needs to be done, the wife or woman of the house will fall in line with what the man wants to do. Am I sometimes caught up in traditional gender roles, absolutely, and this is something that I will continue to work on and try to change I never go to Home Depot with my wife, because she wants to browse. I like to make a list and get what is needed and come back. I always assume Home Depot duties, and I don’t foresee this changing anytime soon. However, maybe one day I will ask her to ride shotgun with me. I hope that when I bring her, she will bring some good ideas and we will be able to agree on something together. Is it selfish for me to go without her, absolutely but I get alot acomplish...
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A few weeks ago I took my first trip to Home Depot. I recently moved and I went to Home Depot to buy paint. The experience was overwhelming, to say the least. What I thought was going to be a half-hour trip turned out to be a half-of-day excursion. There are so many colors and when you think you’ve found the one you like, another one pops out that look close to the first 50 you like, but better. I wonder if I had been a man, would I have just brought the first brown I picked and called it a day?
ReplyDeleteThank God my brother gave me some advice before I went, because I would had been dumbfounded when the clerk asked, “glossy? semi-glossy? stain? primer? no primer? interior? exterior?