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Every winter since we first got married has been the same. My husband has a week off after Christmas, which incidentally is our most cash strapped time of the year. He will wander out of the bedroom early, two days into vacation and will announce that he is going to remodel some part of our home. This would not really be a problem if he knew how to do anything other than demolish whatever it is he is wanting to remodel. Last year was no exception, he decided that the bathroom adjoining our bedroom was ugly and could "use a little sprucing up." He assured me that all he was going to do was take off the wallpaper and paint. Relived that all it would cost us was a gallon of paint, I told him that this would be a nice change and would definitely brighten up what was a small dark space.

I work from home and was in my office working when an hour into his project he wandered by with the toilet. Alarmed, I followed him out to the garage, demanding to know what he was planning. He decided that it would give us so much more room if we were to switch places with the toilet and the sink. It would only cost a few dollars for a valve and another pipe. Reassured that we were not going to have to take out another mortgage I went back to work. He was rather quick getting the sink out, I was even impressed with his ingenuity when I heard the first crash. I went running in where I found him with a sledge hammer and a crow bar tearing down the wall between the bathroom and our already to small bedroom closet. What are you doing I shrieked? Oh, I decided that the space where the vanity is going to be needs to be larger. It's no problem I am going to grab a piece of drywall while I am at the hardware store. It won't cost much more. Fuming I went back to work, as he finished demolishing our bathroom.

As he headed off to the hardware store, he chirped, "take a look". "I don't want to talk to you," I grumbled as he left. An hour later he returned with a piece of drywall, paint and the stuff he need to do the plumbing, and tile. He explained that since all of the fixtures were out of the bathroom this would be a great time to pull up the dated linoleum and replace it with tile. Shutting himself back in the bathroom, he said he was going to start stripping the wallpaper. He was now six hours into a four hour project. I could hear him hammering away replacing the wall he had destroyed. After a few minutes all noise stopped and he came back out stating

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