Assuming you're a cop.

Ask her how she'd feel if you needed your lights in a situation and was hurt due to dead batteries?

So as I was reading the thread, my wife had left the deck door ajar. And right beside the door is an end table with a screwdriver. From the junk drawer. The OP isn't alone. Remember, whats yours is ours. What's mine is mine. Its sort of like marriage is just a series of compromises. You'll make all of them.

On the flashlight thing. Let me suggest you find a piece of thin plastic sheet. Just cut yourself a disk, the size of the battery. Every day just place it between the battery and the screw on end. It won't work until you remove the disk. Don't ever do that while she's watching.

Yes, the rechargeable is the answer. Then be a real asshole if you ever find it unplugged.

Use her eyebrow pencil to mark lumber. Or sewing shears to cut paper.

Inexpensive , double a and triple a hip lights are every where , buy her five of them and attach them to the door jambs of five rooms w/ Velcro. Tell they are " moodlights " , and to use them when she is in the mood

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I do understand your frustrations. My thinking was similar in that instead I thought like you, I would purchase my wife a nice flashlight, a very nice Fenix light to keep in the kitchen drawer to use when needed. My wife then chose to just buy these very cheap flashlights and leave them in just about most countertops in various rooms of the house. Then along with all those cheap plastic lights were packages of "D" cell batteries laying about in all the nearby drawers. In the end though I took back the nicer Fenix as she never uses it and just leave the other plastic flasher hoards alone...Bless her heart!

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Of course, she once opened the safe and marinated goddam fish in 300 dollar a bottle Japanese coffee whisky that was in the safe.

My God Man. That made me weep.

Mine used a 2015 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon to make beef burgundy.

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

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Originally posted by CD228:

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Of course, she once opened the safe and marinated goddam fish in 300 dollar a bottle Japanese coffee whisky that was in the safe.

My God Man. That made me weep.

Mine used a 2015 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon to make beef burgundy.

I can't say that I know what that is, but it sounds expensive.

I shall weep for it as well.

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I feel your pain. Add to the list: screwdrivers, knives...

...cell phones, battery packs, emergency jump start battery packs, drill batteries, gas cans...

hypothetically...

Either you have failed to convey the importance of duty equipment, or she doesn't care.

Buy her flashlights. Stage them around the house. Hide yours.

Problem solved.

(ask me how I know)

Anyone else have a nice chef's knife put in the dishwasher?

Our knife block now has "sacrificial" knives in it. MY knives are in a knife roll in an overhead cabinet.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Of course, she once opened the safe and marinated goddam fish in 300 dollar a bottle Japanese coffee whisky that was in the safe.

My God Man. That made me weep.

Feel ya Fredward, my SIL, after moving in for a short period while she looked for a house here, decided to open a private label custom aged bottle of Makers Mark in a custom gold box that was still factory sealed to make cookies...

Irreplaceable one off bottle left over from a special run we had done as Bill Samuels Jr was on the board of the company and this was from Makers private reserve, not for retail sale...

She used it to make some pastries.

When a half open bottle of bourbon was right there on the shelf with all the other liquor, who opens a brand new bottle hidden on the top shelf in a sealed case to make fuckin cookies, this wasn't in an easy place to reach either...

When I got home from work and saw the open box and bottle I had to leave the house, the wife explained it to her...

They were good cookies, she's still allowed in the house, only because she converted from D to R..... still

Can't help you with the flashlights, same here, so I just don't have any higher end good flashlights. Problem solved..

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Anyone else have a nice chef's knife put in the dishwasher?

Our knife block now has "sacrificial" knives in it. MY knives are in a knife roll in an overhead cabinet.

Yes, I keep decoy knives out on the counter.

I also keep decoy tents and sleeping bags. As in, a close friend who isn't a camper asked to borrow some camping gear for her family to use, knowing that I'm an avid camper. I couldn't say no, and it was already understood that they would be careful (but unintentional damage is still damage). So I went a bought a whole set of Coleman camping gear (decent stuff, but definitely not a $500 MSR tent or a $350 down filled sleeping bag), unboxed it and pretended I had previously used it. Giving it to them would be insulting--they're capable of buying their own, but they honestly didn't know enough about camping gear to realize that I had nothing but really expensive stuff at that point.

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Originally posted by rsbolo:
Anyone else have a nice chef's knife put in the dishwasher?

Our knife block now has "sacrificial" knives in it. MY knives are in a knife roll in an overhead cabinet.

Yes, I keep decoy knives out on the counter.

I also keep decoy tents and sleeping bags. As in, a close friend who isn't a camper asked to borrow some camping gear for her family to use, knowing that I'm an avid camper. I couldn't say no, and it was already understood that they would be careful (but unintentional damage is still damage). So I went a bought a whole set of Coleman camping gear (decent stuff, but definitely not a $500 MSR tent or a $350 down filled sleeping bag), unboxed it and pretended I had previously used it. Giving it to them would be insulting--they're capable of buying their own, but they honestly didn't know enough about camping gear to realize that I had nothing but really expensive stuff at that point.

Crafty and guilty of similar misrepresentations to wife, family and friends.

Aeteocles, I TOTALLY get that!

My gear is like that as well.

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Originally posted by CD228:

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Of course, she once opened the safe and marinated goddam fish in 300 dollar a bottle Japanese coffee whisky that was in the safe.

My God Man. That made me weep.

Feel ya Fredward, my SIL, after moving in for a short period while she looked for a house here, decided to open a private label custom aged bottle of Makers Mark in a custom gold box that was still factory sealed to make cookies...

Irreplaceable one off bottle left over from a special run we had done as Bill Samuels Jr was on the board of the company and this was from Makers private reserve, not for retail sale...

She used it to make some pastries.

When a half open bottle of bourbon was right there on the shelf with all the other liquor, who opens a brand new bottle hidden on the top shelf in a sealed case to make fuckin cookies, this wasn't in an easy place to reach either...

When I got home from work and saw the open box and bottle I had to leave the house, the wife explained it to her...

They were good cookies, she's still allowed in the house, only because she converted from D to R..... still
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That sounds like grounds for justifiable homicide.

And people wonder why I tell them I am happily divorced