I Have a Ton of Projects to do but no time.

Like so many of us in this struggling to recover economy.  It was difficult to do a lot of holiday shopping this past Christmas season.  The money just wasn’t there.  So what I wound up giving my wife was a lot of promises, promises I am finding difficult to keep.   There were three projects that my wife wanted me to do.  A bookcase for our basement / office area, she is a teacher and could use some more storage (it looks like a library threw up down here, don't tell her that I said that).   A corner kitchen hutch, that she saw while I was watching The New Yankee Workshop, and last but not least two closet organizers for the master bedroom.  We are now in June and I haven’t started working on any of them.   The financial situation is not any better then it was in December.   So what is a loving really good-looking husband to do?   Well I think I have a couple options.  Option 1 is to run away to a cabin in northern Canada where she will be unable to find me.  Option 2 Convince her that I never told her that I would make these projects for her.   Option 3 (the only one that doesn’t result in castration) Scale back the projects.   The corner hutch is a painted project that is made out of butch ply and poplar so that wouldn’t be too bad cost wise.   For the bookcase, I was going to make a solid wood case with glass frame and panel doors in the arts and craft theme.  I think I will be able to scale back on this project.  If I scrap the doors and make the carcass out of oak ply, I will be able to cut down the cost considerably.  And the project that will cost the most the closet organizer.  I could only do her closet, but I think it would be better to do them at the same time so that the wood will match.  This is the one that worries me, so I might have to let this one go.  Well two out of three is not too bad right?  I guess I could always reconsider option 1 and 2, oh wait castration that’s right never mind.