freedomdwarf1
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I was going to let this one go until I saw the last bits...
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
Admittedly, I wouldn't really know....
But I will say this. Besides the usual stuff like maintaining your car in good running condition (not leaving empty drink & food cartons or bags in there or any other kind of messiness), being able to do the same for your gf's vehicle;
I am currently in the process of replacing the middle and back end of my exhaust.
This has involved cutting the studs off the catalytic converter because it was completely rusted.
I bought a new exhaust from Ebay and saved over £600 from the manufacturers price.
The wife doesn't drive (and is disabled) so it's down to me to fix anything on the car.
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
keeping up with mowing the lawn, knowing how to do a thorough job weedwacking, being on top of shoveling snow off porches, sidewalks, and the driveway;
I often do this but sometimes she gets a bee in her bonnet and does it herself if I'm busy doing something else.
As for snow, we haven't had enough snow here for the last 7+ years to warrant getting a shovel out.
A 1" flurry is the worst we've had in that time and it soon melted.
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knowing how to fix minor repairs without delay and without making things worse than they were before (which means calling in a professional and not being such a cheap bastard);
I do most of the repairs here and I do a decent job of all of them, including decorating.
I even had to re-wire one of the bathroom lights and install a separate pull-switch after the last handyman did a botched job.
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
Learning how to cook, clean up after yourself, and do your own laundry, is HUGE.
I am a better cook than the wife even though she does most of the cooking.
My Chinese is to die for; I was taught by a genuine Chinese lady and her sister who lived in the mountains just outside of Beijing.
These days, we (I) cook our own traditional style Chinese instead of having a take-out.
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
Honorable mention if you can sew back on your own buttons and darn your own socks.
I don't wear socks. It's been more than 2 decades since I last wore any. But I can darn!
I used to make my own clothes many years ago.
I'm the only one in the family that can sew anything - either by hand or with a machine.
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
Some lucky gal will snatch you up and you won't be single long. 
My wife left her hubby of 15 years on a 1-way trip to be with me one Sunday morning.
She has never looked back, not even once.
We hadn't met or spoken on the phone or even had a pic of each other.
The first time I heard her voice was when she changed trains in London.
Been married 5 years now and couldn't be happier.
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P.S. I give bonus points if a single guy knows how to tend to an aquarium, responsibly care for pets, and clean up after a litterbox. :p
We don't have cats but we do use a litter tray under the chipmunks' cage.
I have done it at times when she has not been well but she insists on doing it. lol.
We have fish tanks (one tropical and one marine) and I generally maintain them.
That has included re-wiring light units into a different housing and building my own refugium.
But, she likes to hand-feed the fish so I let her do that. 
ETA: In the old days when I was single and before the advent of most of the modern aquarium equipment, I built my own 2,000 gallon marine aquarium in my parents house. Those days the only decent pumps were from washing machines and I used household plumbing parts. The only way to clean it was to climb into it with trunks and snorkel.
Those were the days!!!
< Message edited by freedomdwarf1 -- 11/30/2014 2:47:15 AM >
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