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hunter63
05-26-2010, 11:34 AM
Last couple of threads have mentioned a "Man Cave?" or "Man room?" by a couple of guys.

What is this, of which you speak?
This must be an age thing?

Back in the olden days, you had the garage/shop, basement shop, shed shop, and extreme cases and ultimate, Pole barn/Ag building.

All stuff, good and fun, is located there, has shelves, benches, safes, chairs, bar stools, TV/stereo, and a least a mini fridge, You Know STUFF!

So am I missing out of this "Man cave" or "man room"?
(Maybe room for more STUFF!)

Do tell!

Justin Case
05-26-2010, 12:54 PM
Back in the olden days, you had the garage/shop, basement shop, shed shop, and extreme cases and ultimate, Pole barn/Ag building.

All stuff, good and fun, is located there, has shelves, benches, safes, chairs, bar stools, TV/stereo, and a least a mini fridge, You Know STUFF!



All are "Man Caves" or "Mantuaries" ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_cave

Look at this :) http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=man+cave

My "Man cave" has always been a room where I was free to play with whatever hobby I was into at a particular time,, CB, Computers, guns, whatever,, some "Mantuaries" are quite elaborate and Built into new Home designs, some say The "Man Cave" will save a Marriage :)

crashdive123
05-26-2010, 12:56 PM
I have my small workshop. All else is in the domain of "she who must be obeyed".:innocent:

justin_baker
05-26-2010, 01:38 PM
Ive always heard the term "the dog house".

BENESSE
05-26-2010, 01:38 PM
I doubt if a man came up with that term.

Whoever came up with the term "lazy boy", came up with "man cave".

Justin Case
05-26-2010, 01:44 PM
Whoever came up with the term "lazy boy", came up with "man cave".

Women have the Kitchen and the Laundry Room ,,, Guys Need a Place too :innocent::innocent:

BENESSE
05-26-2010, 01:46 PM
Women have the Kitchen and the Laundry Room ,,, Guys Need a Place too :innocent::innocent:

Let's trade!

Old GI
05-26-2010, 02:09 PM
How do I get one of them Man-whatevers?:blushing:

BENESSE
05-26-2010, 02:20 PM
How do I get one of them Man-whatevers?:blushing:

You gotta have a Mrs. on the premises first.
If not, then the whole place and everything in it is man/whatever--i.e. yours.
I think that's how it works.

Pal334
05-26-2010, 03:27 PM
I think the difference between our shops etc and the "Man Cave", is that the man cave is an isolated pocket in "her" domain" and has to be in the same "domestic shape" (no beer cans on the floor and no crumbs on the table). I prefer the seperation that my shop gives me, I sweep it up whenever the sawdust and beer cans get annoying or get in the way of a project. Besides, that is where she exiled me anyways

Camp10
05-26-2010, 04:14 PM
Whoever came up with the term "lazy boy", came up with "man cave".

No, I think that it is just the opposite. The man room is more of a no-nagg zone where work can get done. I lost mine to the sewing machine:innocent: so now I have to live in the garage.

Old GI
05-26-2010, 05:07 PM
You gotta have a Mrs. on the premises first.
If not, then the whole place and everything in it is man/whatever--i.e. yours.
I think that's how it works.

Whats mine is hers; what's hers is hers.:innocent: No man-cave.:helpsmilie:

BENESSE
05-26-2010, 08:05 PM
Survival Kitty dominates my home.

Our household is also being run by a kitty.
We're just there to serve him and provide a lap. :)

hunter63
05-26-2010, 08:46 PM
I guessing this Man cave/man room is kinda a new term?
Maybe from the Miller "Man Law" commercials?

Anyway, I just figured that a real man doesn't have a man cave/man room, just seems like a HGTV, yuppie type term...........Then again if I can make it works for me...you know, sign me up!

doug1980
05-26-2010, 08:51 PM
Wel I my domain is the yard, the shed, the garage and a spare bedroom "the man room" I can watch what I want in there, I have all my guy posters etc in there. I can do whatever I want I want in there with no questions asked. However, when we move I will not have a room like this so I will have to use my 2 car garage instead.

randyt
05-26-2010, 08:51 PM
a man cave is nothing more than a big kids fort. i started building a fort a few years ago in the woods behind the house. it's a place i go to unwind and fool with my "junk". i keep my traps, snowshoes and such there. in the winter i'll go back and start a fire and catch up on my reading.

here's a photo of the inside. i don't know if i'll ever be done. i have very little hard cash in my fort, mostly sweat equity.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/randytlee/100_0568.jpg

crashdive123
05-26-2010, 08:52 PM
Now that's a man cave I could get used to.

hunter63
05-26-2010, 09:01 PM
Ok, Randyt, now I understand........I hear ya man, very nice.

nell67
05-26-2010, 09:06 PM
Ok, Randyt, now I understand........I hear ya man, very nice.

*GIGGLES* hunter,they shoulda cut to the chase and showed you the picture to begin with,right???

hunter63
05-26-2010, 09:19 PM
*GIGGLES* hunter,they shoulda cut to the chase and showed you the picture to begin with,right???

I guess I didn;t realizemwe were talking cabins......but hey I get it.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/PICT0354.jpg

randyt
05-26-2010, 09:26 PM
i reckon everybodys idea of a man cave is a little different. some fellas might see a basement with a pool table and a wet bar as their man cave. some guys use a garage with a card table and such for theirs. for me though i like a cabin in the woods. my wife and kids don't come back there very often.


Hey Hunter,

nice cabin and nice view.

your_comforting_company
05-27-2010, 05:52 AM
The kids lovingly named my "area" the "Chop Shop". Everyone likes to go in there and look and touch all my skins and furs and arrowheads, and bone items, and...
It's just a room in the garage where I keep my tools for work. Not really a "man-cave" but it serves me well.

kyratshooter
05-28-2010, 02:30 PM
How do I get one of them Man-whatevers?:blushing:

There is a process involved, Much like the recovery programs.

Step 1. Admit that you are helpless in your own home, have lost control furnature placement and style.

Step 2. Admit that there is a higher power, and you are married to her.

Step 3. Accept the fact that in the main part of the house you are not allowed to wear shoes, smoke or swear.

Step 4. Find a small portion of unusable space and declare it your own. Hide the existance of this space under some term that will cause repulsion of the female psyche, hopefully resulting in the avoidance of "your space".

Step 5. Reject any color scheme in claimed area and eliminate any color bearing the name of "dusty rose", "country blue" or ending in the word "pastel", or even the half empty cans of such paint.

Step 6. Never admit the real object of the "Man cave". Once the object of seperation of male/female zones is recognized the man cave will be needed for some "family use" that costs several thousand dollars and eliminates the existance of the "man cave".

We will end this program with only 6 steps since the women in our lives will confirm that we are only "half there" anyway.

BENESSE
05-28-2010, 06:02 PM
I only WISH I had a cave, man or otherwise.
For all of y'all who are lucky enough to have a garage, shed, workshop or a basement to do your man thang...guess what? I'd trade the rest of the house for just one little room to be mine. ALL mine.
This whole notion of women hijacking the house for their own little decorating schemes is bogus. Ask any of them and they'll tell you: give me one room as my personal retreat and YOU take over the rest. Clean, maintain and entertain. I'll act as a guest and slink off when the real guests leave. In fact, I'd like to be a guest in my own house. You pick the wall color and I'll watch Dr. Phil in the garage. How's that?

Winnie
05-28-2010, 06:14 PM
I only WISH I had a cave, man or otherwise.
For all of y'all who are lucky enough to have a garage, shed, workshop or a basement to do your man thang...guess what? I'd trade the rest of the house for just one little room to be mine. ALL mine.
This whole notion of women hijacking the house for their own little decorating schemes is bogus. Ask any of them and they'll tell you: give me one room as my personal retreat and YOU take over the rest. Clean, maintain and entertain. I'll act as a guest and slink off when the real guests leave. In fact, I'd like to be a guest in my own house. You pick the wall color and I'll watch Dr. Phil in the garage. How's that?

Right with you on this one too, Bee!
Even though Winnie jnr comes and goes, it's funny how I seem to lose "my space" when he's here!

BENESSE
05-28-2010, 06:29 PM
There is a process involved, Much like the recovery programs.

Step 1. Admit that you are helpless in your own home, have lost control furnature placement and style.
Very convenient.

Step 2. Admit that there is a higher power, and you are married to her.
Takes the pressure off.

Step 3. Accept the fact that in the main part of the house you are not allowed to wear shoes, smoke or swear.
Small price to pay, and you know it too.

Step 4. Find a small portion of unusable space and declare it your own. Hide the existance of this space under some term that will cause repulsion of the female psyche, hopefully resulting in the avoidance of "your space".
You'll make up for it later.

Step 5. Reject any color scheme in claimed area and eliminate any color bearing the name of "dusty rose", "country blue" or ending in the word "pastel", or even the half empty cans of such paint.
Token resistance, right on!

Step 6. Never admit the real object of the "Man cave". Once the object of seperation of male/female zones is recognized the man cave will be needed for some "family use" that costs several thousand dollars and eliminates the existance of the "man cave".
And you're the first one to fold like a cheap lawn chair.

We will end this program with only 6 steps since the women in our lives will confirm that we are only "half there" anyway.
You wouldn't have it any other way.:)

flandersander
05-28-2010, 07:27 PM
I built a bit of a man cave myself. But I call it a man shack. It's an old shed, around 15x20. It's got shelves, a fully functional coke machine (not full of coke ;)) a wood stove, a couch, a recliner, a few stackable chairs, an ihome, and hopefully soon... satelite tv. It's nice in there. I even put in astro-turf so I can remove my shoes if I wish. It's AWESOME!

Rick
05-28-2010, 09:14 PM
Hunter - There is only one official definition for ANY room to be a man cave...

http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_54/assets/widget_ceCL8-GFDbJ7ClkzE0iK8M.jpg

Justin Case
05-28-2010, 09:54 PM
Hunter - There is only one official definition for ANY room to be a man cave...

http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_54/assets/widget_ceCL8-GFDbJ7ClkzE0iK8M.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ZwrVElW8Q

kyratshooter
06-07-2010, 01:51 PM
The wife used to tell the tale of mom visiting relitives and leaving Dad with the three girls for a weekend.

The incident in question involved Dad trying to bring beer from the man-cave beer fridge into the upstairs portion of the house.

The girls found the beer in the upstairs fridge and returned it to its proper downstairs home. Dad went down to fetch it back and encountered his three girls, ages 4,6,and 8 blocking the top of the stairs with threats of calling Mom if he tried to put beer in the upstairs fridge again.

Yep, he caved!

I'm rooting for ya, we're all in this together.

Ole WV Coot
06-07-2010, 06:25 PM
Workshop is about 100yds from the house. I find if I put on ear protectors, turn on a piece of equipment, unplug the phone I am good for a long time especially if it happens to be cold or raining. Naps are necessary to recharge.

dscrick
06-07-2010, 10:33 PM
Funny Aussie beer commercial:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE9tk7h5Tjk

hunter63
06-08-2010, 03:11 PM
I guess this idea is kinda timeless, just a name thing..........
Garage beers vs house beers...........story.

At age 18 I had my first "real job" working for a small city.
Was out of high school, paying room and board.

Middle of July laying asphalt, hot, sweaty, long day.
Came home, opened the fridge, looking for something cold.
There in front of my eyes was a 6 pack of my favorite beer! All cold and good looking.

I asked my mother, what was up, and she says,"Well, as you are a man now, with a job, helping out with the bills, I thought I would get you a 6 pack, as I do for your father".

Say no more, pulled the top on the first and second and dumped them down.......slowed down on the third, and took off to clean up.

Father came home from work, then ask me to follow him out to the garage for a minute, had something to show me.(his way of "discussing stuff").

With out saying a word he pulled the old red wagon from in front of a fridge, in the garage. Freezer on the top, fridge on the bottom, (we had been led to believe that the fridge didn't work).
There was his 2-3 cases of beer.

He says, "Son, these are garage beers, the ones in the house are "house beers"......got to last you 2 weeks, till next payday.

Then it dawned on me, we would say, "Honey, need to cut the grass".........head out and have a beer while "sharpening up the blade".......stop for a sharpen job about half way thru.... and so on.

When he got done, he would head into the house and say, "Well, I'm done, guess I'll have a beer"......And my mother would just beam at her, hard working, one beer, husband............

Used to keep my garage beers in there as well........kinda a guy thing, still do.

BENESSE
06-08-2010, 03:17 PM
That's a sweet story hunter.

Justin Case
06-08-2010, 03:38 PM
Yes, Great story :)

Rick
06-08-2010, 03:55 PM
Great Hunter, just great. Now the secret is out!

BENESSE
06-08-2010, 03:58 PM
I'll bet Mom knew about the garage stash and just let it go.

crashdive123
06-08-2010, 05:27 PM
Good story. Sadly, no garage here. Got a little fridge in the workshop though.:sailor:

finallyME
06-10-2010, 05:42 PM
My shed is all work, stuffed with tools and bikes. But, I do get to decorate the guest room. Basically, anything my wife wouldn't let me put up in the living room. I have all my books on a huge book shelf, plus lots of odd little things that I keep around. I hung my army dress uniform along with my boys scout uniform on one wall, with the American flag I got for getting my Eagle Scout. I also put up a bunch of patriotic pictures from my grandmother. I have my bullet casing collection on one shelf. My gun case is in their, and it used to have guns but they were all stolen :( . Anytime someone visits and stays in the room, the wife is quick to point out that she did NOT decorate the room. :innocent:

Rick
06-10-2010, 06:48 PM
plus lots of odd little things that I keep around.

My wife keeps odd things, too. I've been around for a long time.