My wife keeps watching "Trading Spaces."

[lfairban]

Do you think she is trying to tell me something?

[spooky3]

1. I wouldn't worry until she starts watching

"Trading Spouses"

new this fall on Faux Network. Just kidding! :-)

[Fridays Child]

2. Tee hee!

:D

[CarlBallard]

3. That would be too tame for a Faux reality show (n/t)

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. perhaps she's trying to tell you

she wants to spend a grand on cheap, cheap, cheap home decorating stuff that MIGHT last two weeks. Do construction that is both out of code and possibly dangerous. Spend hours and hours sewing throw pillows from used threadbare sheets found at a thrift shop. Affix broken lamps, spraypainted with glitter and ribbon, to your walls, and possibly pain the most used room in your house with whatever color costs twenty cents a can.

Man, I hate that show.

[Room101]

5. oops I thought you said trading places( eddie)

The host on there is so cute:)

[jmowreader]

6. I hate home improvement shows

All of 'em. Without exception.

They tend to leave a lot of shit out because it doesn't make good television. They like to use tools the average homeowner doesn't have--every time you see someone doing crown moulding, they fail to tell you that the compound mitersaw you need to cut the ends costs between $150 and $350 depending on what you get. (And yes, I know you can get a little miterbox with a backsaw for $5 and cut the ends. Two problems: the ends look like they were cut with a $5 miterbox, and you try doing a 46-degree angle on purpose on a $5 miterbox.)

Trading Spaces is the second worst: hand over your home for three days to someone who might just decide to paint your bedroom battleship gray and make a headboard in the shape of a ship anchor because he heard the Village People's "In the Navy" in the makeup room the first morning and felt nautical. (And then you find out the homeowner was a middle linebacker at Army whose teams lost to Navy four years running.)

The worst one, without question, is While You Were Out. The one I saw I would have killed about ten people if it would have happened to me: This guy had one room in the basement that was his own little hideaway. He told his wife before she started redecorating the whole house, "This room is exactly how I want it. Please don't change it." Naturally, that's the room they completely redid. That's the whole purpose of this show: to redecorate hubby's personal room behind his back.