https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:23:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do/page/2#post-326600 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:55:13 +0000 MediaNaranja 326600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: @highwire: I prefer manual, as well. I get so bored when I drive an automatic!! </p> <p>I also mowed the lawn as one of my chores growing up. Snow removal. Chopping firewood. </p> <p>The manliest thing I ever did was kill a rattlesnake with a shovel, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do/page/2#post-326487 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:09:56 +0000 Rosie Girl 326487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, I can also buck bales of hay </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do/page/2#post-326481 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:00:39 +0000 Rosie Girl 326481@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Drive a manual (that is what I learned to drive on!), check my oil, change a flat, use a saw, assemble crap, gut and skin a deer (sorry if that grosses you out!), mow the lawn, use screwdrivers and hammer, know the difference between screwdrivers, dirt bike and ride 4-wheelers (is that manly?!), bait my own hook, reload bullets, add fluids to my car, and other random things! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do/page/2#post-326476 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:25:06 +0000 Sweet T 326476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mowed the lawn for the first time ever last week. I even used a manual push mower. My arms were on fire! I'm usually the one who puts furniture together and I usually deal with the tech stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-326472 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:03:17 +0000 softcream 326472@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i like to move heavy furniture</p> <p>i also kill a lot of bugs and spiders in the house </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-326456 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:40:09 +0000 sunny 326456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think I can do any of the things listed! But like @JerricaBenton: I am good with electronics and computers. Although I don't really think those should be considered "manly"! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-326454 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:34:42 +0000 808love 326454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The only manly things I can do is techie stuff and finances. But nowadays..those are neutral things, I think?! I 'can't' even scrub the floor because I don't have elbow power. So I may have convinced my husband, mopping is a manly job. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-326435 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:53:52 +0000 HLK208 326435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: hahaha!! Too funny!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324945 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:54:18 +0000 JerricaBenton 324945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't do any of these things! I really should learn to change a tire just in case! I am good at figuring out how to work and set things like TVs, computers, DVRs etc. Is that manly?? Haha. My husband and I laid some sticky tiles at his workplace once and I ended up doing more of the work because he wasn't being precise enough. That's kinda manly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324931 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:43:04 +0000 Alivoo01 324931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: You are flipping hilarious my friend!</p> <p>I'm a HUGE tom boy and my dad's mini me so I do a bunch of manly things, which I actually enjoy! Which continues to add to my tomboy attitude. Lovely, eh? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324929 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:42:20 +0000 Meridian 324929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, I can't do ANY of those things you awesome people listed above... I suck! My poor DH... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324868 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:03:40 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 324868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: I just loled!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324835 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:44:57 +0000 lawbee11 324835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Leialou: Wow! I am impressed. </p> <p>I could mow the lawn if I HAD to. The only other manly thing I can think of that I can do is BD then roll over and fall asleep...does that count?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324830 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:39:04 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 324830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I wish I could hoist heavy luggage over my head! When I travel alone I have to look around all pitifully until some nice gentleman offers to stow my bag for me. </p> <p>I can also drive a manual, I can lay tile, and do basic electrical work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324829 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:38:20 +0000 SugarplumsMom 324829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cyndistar3: Impressive! </p> <p>I can check the oil, change a flat, break down and put together a computer, solder metal, and I enjoy putting together IKEA furniture. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324772 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:02:21 +0000 Mrs. Pen 324772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@highwire: I agree!! but no one has taught me yet either. My dad started to teach me when I was 19 but then I moved for a job so we never finished. </p> <p>@mrbee: lol but you ARE a man. It's expected that you can do those things ;)</p> <p>@LAGS: DH and I moved our entire first apartment by ourselves too. It sucked, but I did it. I was good with heavy lifting too - until I had a baby. Now my back is permanently ruined.</p> <p>I'm not really sure... I can set up furniture really easily - and sometimes I do it better than DH because I'm good at following the manual </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324759 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:54:24 +0000 HLK208 324759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basically nothing. But! I can park my husbands truck way better than he can! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324633 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:09:16 +0000 loveisstrange 324633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot! I grew up with very DIY-friendly parents, so I picked up a lot. I demoed my first wall when I was 7!</p> <p>I can do: drywall, tile, roofing, use power tools, assemble furniture, fish/bait my own hook, fix a flat tire, change my own oil, check/replace sparkplugs, mow the lawn, drive a manual..... I'm sure there's more. I was the only girl with 2 brothers and a dad who is a "man's man". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324596 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:56:17 +0000 Arden 324596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Change a flat, installing tile, putting together furniture, painting, basic car repair and upkeep, basic plumbing, basic electrical work... that's all I can think of at the moment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324587 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:53:43 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 324587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I finished our fence! DH and I Have been doing it together all summer, but he works a lot so one Sunday I totally finished it. All we had left to do was the gates. He was so shocked. And so was I! I even had a neighbor come out and tell me to be careful, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324569 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:46:20 +0000 oliviaoblivia 324569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Beebug: Loading hay is such hard work. We do it ever summer at my SIL's farm and I'm sore for weeks after. This year we did 17 loads.</p> <p>I can drive manual, install and mud drywall, install light fixtures, wood work, drive a boat, change a flat. In our house all the power tools are mine. DH isn't great at that kind of stuff.</p> <p>But I can't kill a spider - some things are just meant to be "Manly work" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324547 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:35:23 +0000 pinkcupcake 324547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can put together furniture pretty well :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324478 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:15:29 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 324478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Change my own oil.</p> <p>That's about it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324462 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:08:13 +0000 rachiecakes 324462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bookworm: loved that car! now I'm riding a pretty feminine powder blue Prius, haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324454 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:03:39 +0000 Beebug 324454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LAGS: When I took DH to the barn where I used to keep my horse when it was time to bring hay in, I think I earned a whole new respect from him unloading three wagon loads of bales back to back up to four of them in the loft....!! Farm work is a whole 'nother type of work at times!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324450 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:01:48 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 324450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can also drive a manual transmission. My dad MADE me learn on one. Then I got that car LOL</p> <p>I also change my own tire. I'd rather just do it myself than call AAA or wait for anyone to do it for me. It amazes me how many people can't change their own tire. Another thing my dad made me learn :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324448 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:00:42 +0000 Beebug 324448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cyndistar3: DH also likes to do/try things, and the way we get to the end result is SO different (example when we built a shelving unit in the rafters of our garage a few weeks ago) so we end up very frustrated with each other! It's a good test of our communication skills and learning to work together! He is handy, but played hockey growing up at a high level up to university so really his life was hockey so just didn't have an opportunity to do anything until current time where we're homeowners, he wants to do it for sure, but knows if I ask for him to do something (ie lawn) and he doesn't get to it soon enough.....I will do it myself, lol. Can't be bothered to bug, will just do it so it's done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324445 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:59:37 +0000 LAGS 324445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can do most home repair and DIY related stuff including drywall, tiling, electrical and basic plumbing. Someone else mentioned it as well but I can hold my own with moving furniture and heavy lifting too. DH and I have moved everything we own twice, by ourselves. Before we were married I think I won my FIL's approval when I helped on the farm and was moving bags of grain with them and picking rocks in the field all day lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324438 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:57:46 +0000 mrbee 324438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can throw a really good left hook. Plus I can put heavy luggage in the airplane bins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/so-what-manly-things-can-you-do#post-324433 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:56:16 +0000 Bookish 324433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: Nicee!!! I reallllly want the new Dodge Dart w/a turbo engine, but the only ones I can afford are manuals! I'm SO tempted to just buy one lol! </p>