Outdoor Home Decor

I came home from my 4-day mini vacation to find out that SB had paid all the bills in the bill basket. Great. And not left enough money for groceries, gas, his birthday or mother's day. I am totally not complaining. This is simply an example of how men and women think differently. There are bills to be paid. Let's pay them all right now, including ones that aren't due until the end of the month.

And according to him it was ok that there wasn't enough money for me to get him a birthday present, because he bought himself one. A gigantic, plastic ashtray. For real.

He sits on the front porch to smoke. He tosses all the butts in a neat little pile in the flower bed next to the porch. It doesn't bother me. It's unsightly, but I don't really mind. There was a can. Cans are disposable and we have plenty of them. But he thought a giant, plastic ashtray would be better, as in more attractive than a can or a pile of butts.

So the box came via UPS yesterday, addressed to North Shore Repairs, because SB didn't think the company would sell it to an individual. Because normal people don't buy giant, plastic ashtrays for their homes. The box was enormous. I am thinking of shipping one of the children somewhere in it.

He took it out of the box and assembled it in our bedroom. I asked him where he was planning on putting it. In the flower bed, he tells me. I told him that I thought it would be better on the side of the house. Or on the back deck. But that would mean he'd have to get up off the porch and walk around the front of the house to dispose of his cigarette butt.

He left early for work this morning. He didn't have time to take his birthday present outside. So I did it for him. I'm a good wife, like that.

I won't ask what you think. Because I feel sure that you think the same thing I do. "REALLY?! For REAL!? A giant, plastic ashtray? I thought only businesses could have those."

This is one of the places I thought it could go. There are several things wrong with this location. Including the fact that it will tempt the boys to pick it up and carry it around, using it for some kind of target practice.

Here it sits on the pile of existing butts. Nice, huh? Klassy, I think.

Turned sideways for easy access from the top step of the porch.

At least the color is right.