Living Costs in the Dominican Republic

[donP]

Give Freely to the Lord

but a soup kitchen
no.. that is the work of a church

Please give it a second thought.

Hmm, why not found one?
It is one of the best businesses* you could have in this country. :bunny:

*)
Just look at the many luxurious church buildings in Las Terrenas....


donP

 

[MikeFisher]

It would be helpful to newbies for people to write the costs in pesos

absolutely right,
and it would be helpful to come back to the Subject of the Topic,
we/Myself heaviliest included, went far off to other themes.
so here come your rates/prices in pesos:

please keep in mind that I spend most of my time in the touristy area named Punta cana/East Coast, so in many cases I can not compare the rates to the same products purchased somewhere else in the Country.

Presidente Beer, cold at a street shop/colmadito, 50 pesos
the same beer at a bar or restaurant a bit off the beach or at a carwash, 60-70 pesos
the same at a beachbar or even a street bar in the middle of bavaro, 70-100 pesos

rice of low quality 12 pesos per lbs
rice of mid quality 18 pesos per lbs
rice of good quality 25 pesos per lbs
imported branded rice, I don't care for brandings, no pesos

rent for a 2 bedroom furniched appartment right on the beach(20 meters to get the toes in da sand), 25.000 Pesos

electricity for the above appartment for a Couple with one Babygal 21 months old, A/C used in the Baby's sleeping room when needed and not in the rest of the house, 3.200.- Pesos

Propane for the above household around 1000.- pesos per month

cellphone plan including international minutes around 2.500.- per month

cellphone for the Mrs an other 1.200.- Pesos per month

Internet as unlimited Claro Plan of a Wifi Mobile used for PC at home and Laptop on the Vernada and on the Beach and the Tablet on da Road 2.041.- Pesos per month.

foodwise it really depends what someone's preferences are, I get most fruits for nothing as very most of our juices are done from fruits from the own Ranch, many veggies come from there, too.
Meets, which are my own preference, cost us around 8.000.- Pesos per month as a mix of some German Butcher's sausages from St Dgo(they are the most expensive portion), some imported Cuts of Beef from the Local Super, many local Cuts from the Ranch neighbours(yeah, they are the cheapest because for free).
Seafood, here I am also on the lucky side of life, for seafood needed in our house I pay nothing as I fish it myself, but sure I know that's not the case for everyone.

Car, I have my fancy stuff where the roads are good to have fun with, that's at our German House, here I drive actually a 2001 Mitsubishi L200 Pick Up, my working horse, of course a shifter and not a automatic showcase, costs around 400.000.- Pesos with the papers done, yearly insurance costs a bit less than 10K Pesos.

what you need to spend on Tyres, oil changes, maintenance over all depends of course on how many miles per month/year you drive around, count on double what the same vehicle would cost you on the same mileage back home and you come close to the real costs here, IF you know the right backdoor mechanics to fix the minor stuff which is coming up every other month.

cable TV or Sky or such I can not commet on rates, as I have the Local Cable included here in my Rent.

medical insurance pan for myself, a Platinum Plan from ARS Humano, around 5.000.- Pesos per Month

Medical Insurance for the Mrs, our Baby Gal, and the 3 Boys of the Mrs, the ARS Humano Royal Plan, $1.300.- Pesos per Month per Person.

Gas, 204.- Pesos per US Gallon of Premium Diesel.

having the best Wife and Daughter of the Globe, Priceless!

Mike
btw,
we also have a Chihuahua Girlie, around 1 1/2 lbs heavy, on average costs around 100.- Pesos per Month on Dog Food and an other 250.- pesos per month on her vacunations( a avgue average, as there are some needed just twice a year and cost only 150.- Pesos each ...)

 

[mountainannie]

ok..

Completely different lifestyle from Mike// of a single retired woman living in the Capital

two bedroom furnished condo in Gazcue.. US $565 a month. I give the landlady three checks at a time, post dated and have my casa de cambio guy go over and change them for her. She calls me Querida and says she goes to bed thanking God every night for the Pope and me. This was after I figured out that it was not that she did not WANT to fix up the place, but just did not have the money. So I fixed it up myself. Nothing really drastic, just stuff that the landlord would normally be responsible for in a furnished rental. It has been the same rent for five years. I gave her more than the orginal asking price of $550 to make up for her having to pay for a cab to the casa de cambio in the first years.

Cable is the most expensive since I am a news junkie.. at $2200 pesos

Electric going up since I found that the electric was half stolen from the apartment upstairs.. runs about $1500 in winter and up to a whopping $3500 last month.

Internet and telephone average about $2000 pesos

Maid $700 pesos a week for one day, about five hours

Food varies completely depending on who is visiting but ususally about US $500 a month.

I do not have a car but rent one about once a month to go to beach for a day - or sometimes to travel about for a weekend . costs about a thousand pesos a day. It is such a beautiful country that it is hard to stay home.

Taxis perhaps once a week at 400 pesos round trip

movies 250 pesos

manicure at the high end salon once a month // 300 pesos

fresh flowers once a week 200 pesos

medical insurance .. 20,000 pesos for three months.

pool and gym membership 2000 pesos

condo fee 2000 pesos

and I am sure that I have forgotten something because no matter how it is when I set up my budget and see that I have plenty of money, I never have much left at the end of the month

ok../. so what if I die in debt? does that matter much, do you think? I mean, when I get to the pearly gates? If I still owe American Express?

 

[mountainannie]

i do not include propane because i only fill my tank about once a year.. do not like rice and have a toaster oven for potatoes.. mostly eat stir fry!

 

[mountainannie]

Yes, a 50 lb sack of rice 1000 pesos and sack of beans 25lb 1000 pesos should feed 100-200 people. Maybe some eggs as well 100 eggs 500 pesos. 70 dollars.

When I was young the street used to club together to buy things in bulk and distribute each week. I do not sense this among Haitians here - their ideal is to hang around gringos for 100 pesos. One or two Haitians I meet actually grow things but not many .
Yes; if ma wants to run a soup kitchen for starving Haitians and others in LT once a month I will donate beans and rice ; also loan a large pressure cooker and gas ring.
Long time ago I helped in soup kitchens in poor London and ran lunch clubs for the elderly needy in Glasgow.
Yes a BBQ on the beach is more romantic but does it really help people help themselves?
ma obviously has a gift for languages : I want to learn more Creole and help others too. If she will record 100 words, 100 phrases and and their English equivalent spoken by herself or a native Haitian or herself I will donate to her favorite charity and also make the recording freely available on the web to all with appropriate acknowledgements.
pm response please outside topic.

By the way do you have hospital records of people dying of starvation ? Yes possibly hungry and easiest way is to ask a gringo for 100 pesos ; but I have seen many Haitians on a walk in the countryside to collect food. Depending on season breadfruit, mangoes, coconut, various root vegetables, greens, plantanas growing outside proper plots; some have little secret plots where they grow beans etc.
Even I can collect 5 coconut in 1 hour and I'm not savvy.
Yes as child when I was hungry I walked round fields looking for discarded vegetables, wheat ears and wild carrots. Also shot pigeon with an air rifle; helped with slaughtering and plucking chickens so I could take one home.
Even I can collect 5 coconut in 1 hour and I'm not savvy.
Yes, I am conscious that the US and many US citizens want a dependency culture so the millionaires that run their agribusinesses can commission every bigger yachts.

yapask1

Pardon for just a second, Mike, I know we are getting back on topic but I have to clear something up here. Hardly any of the Haitians who are here in the DR actually own any land on which they could plant anything. Even in the batay regions where they and their families may have lived for forty years.. they have no papers, no security that they will not be deported tomorrow. Haitians are the hardest working people I have ever met. I have nothing but the most profound respect for them and I am not gonna let Yappy just sit and say.. well, if only they would make a nice little kitchen victory garden out of their lawns, they would all be well fed.

 

[Ringo]

ok..

Completely different lifestyle from Mike// of a single retired woman living in the Capital

two bedroom furnished condo in Gazcue.. US $565 a month. I give the landlady three checks at a time, post dated and have my casa de cambio guy go over and change them for her. She calls me Querida and says she goes to bed thanking God every night for the Pope and me. This was after I figured out that it was not that she did not WANT to fix up the place, but just did not have the money. So I fixed it up myself. Nothing really drastic, just stuff that the landlord would normally be responsible for in a furnished rental. It has been the same rent for five years. I gave her more than the orginal asking price of $550 to make up for her having to pay for a cab to the casa de cambio in the first years.

Cable is the most expensive since I am a news junkie.. at $2200 pesos
Ahhh. that's your bill. Mine is around $1000. pesos per month with premium... (XXX chanals too)

Electric going up since I found that the electric was half stolen from the apartment upstairs.. runs about $1500 in winter and up to a whopping $3500 last month.If you have someone stealing from you.. then stop it OR CONTINUE paying. It is NOT a whopping bill unless you let it be.

Internet and telephone average about $2000 pesos ???? you must be kidding.

Maid $700 pesos a week for one day, about five hours Not going here. NO... NOT at all.

Food varies completely depending on who is visiting but ususally about US $500 a month. You pay for what you eat. Simple.

I do not have a car but rent one about once a month to go to beach for a day - or sometimes to travel about for a weekend . costs about a thousand pesos a day. It is such a beautiful country that it is hard to stay home. Last I saw you went to several beaches and places on "vacation".

Taxis perhaps once a week at 400 pesos round trip

movies 250 pesos I watch my expensive cable.

manicure at the high end salon once a month // 300 pesos DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HAVE COMMENTS ABOUT YOU HAVING A MANICURE AT THE HIGHT END SALON ONCE A MONTH? i have nail clippers.

fresh flowers once a week 200 pesos Must be nice.

medical insurance .. 20,000 pesos for three months. Everyone else is 10K a year.

pool and gym membership 2000 pesos Can't comment here... I have my own poolssss and gym.

condo fee 2000 pesos

and I am sure that I have forgotten something because no matter how it is when I set up my budget and see that I have plenty of money, I never have much left at the end of the month

ok../. so what if I die in debt? does that matter much, do you think? I mean, when I get to the pearly gates? If I still owe American Express?

GEEEEZZZZ. How to ... how tooo.... not have any ... one..............

Good night.

 

[mountainannie]

No, my apartment was stealing from my neighbors upstairs..

ah NO.. I will NOT give up my manicure.. I have nail clippers and nail files all over the place and I still end up looking like a garage mechanic at the end of the month. I managed ALL my life in the STates without going for manicures but do you have any idea how HIGH the manicure standards are for Dominican women? OMG!!!

 

[mountainannie]

you know that the flowers are grown in Constanza? for export? and they are sold here on the street by the little tribe outside the supermarket .. the ones that do not make the planes for NY and Paris etc.. so I am very lucky to have them and it really keeps the little tribe alive. The florist is married to the guy who fixes my shoes. And we are lucky that a tailor moved in next door.

Honestly, you guys never seem to rag any of the men who spend their money on women and beer

but when I get $6 of fresh flowers and a Ten dollar manicure, I am LIVING too LARGE?

 

[MikeFisher]

oh WOW. Mikefisher is... to me.. one of the top respected people on DR1. Sorry Mike... not at the top but very close to it.

So... Can I see your donation just cause... ?? you know what to do?

http://www.dr1.com/forums/community-support/126162-please-help-abandoned-santiago-children.html

Fish? I challange you to send a BIG FISH to the kids. or money is fine too.

not to offend , Buddy,
but a important point to me in case of doing is not Publishing it, and less publishing it before it's done,
the first goal is always just DOING.

but in your case no pun intended, as I know that you are really DOING,
so hopefully some of the Kids on the Topic will click the link you proveided, read it and then really simply DO!!!

it's for the best cause Guys

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

Please give it a second thought.

Hmm, why not found one?
It is one of the best businesses* you could have in this country. :bunny:

*)
Just look at the many luxurious church buildings in Las Terrenas....


donP

Churchs are Tax Free,
hence the foundation of every Drug running or Money Laundering Biz on the Isle is to be a Church first.
that's why we hav eso many Churches down here, not because we are all so Holier than other Holies.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

No, my apartment was stealing from my neighbors upstairs..

ah NO.. I will NOT give up my manicure.. I have nail clippers and nail files all over the place and I still end up looking like a garage mechanic at the end of the month. I managed ALL my life in the STates without going for manicures but do you have any idea how HIGH the manicure standards are for Dominican women? OMG!!!

it's not about the Manicure, Babe,
it's a piece of Social Life to be at the Salon twice a week and talk all the lil Town's News with all da other Girlies,
it;s not about the Manicure itself for the DR Woman.
heck,
I am married to one,
if it would be the Manicure or doing her Hair Only she could do it herself here at home where she has the better equipment and products to do so.
after I installed such here at home of course I found out quickly that she didn't wanna have a darn Blower in da House, or the products for straightening Hairs or the stuff for colouring the stuff on da Head.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
a DR Salon is about sozializing Only,
that you get your Hair and Nails also done there, one doing the new fingernail paintings of an other, that's just a li side effect.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

ok..

Completely different lifestyle from Mike// of a single retired woman living in the Capital
*** of course different, I am not single, sorrily still not fully retired, not a Woman(save's on the Nails, lol) and the Countryboy sure does not live in the Capiatl ***

two bedroom furnished condo in Gazcue.. US $565 a month. I give the landlady three checks at a time, post dated and have my casa de cambio guy go over and change them for her. She calls me Querida and says she goes to bed thanking God every night for the Pope and me. This was after I figured out that it was not that she did not WANT to fix up the place, but just did not have the money. So I fixed it up myself. Nothing really drastic, just stuff that the landlord would normally be responsible for in a furnished rental. It has been the same rent for five years. I gave her more than the orginal asking price of $550 to make up for her having to pay for a cab to the casa de cambio in the first years.*** here we are on almost the same rate, even very different locations, just I do not pay the rent by check, I pay when we run into each others on da beach once in a while, without any pressure on it, for example this month we did not hit, yet, hence I still owe the Rent since the first. ***

Cable is the most expensive since I am a news junkie.. at $2200 pesos *** cable is very important for Me, too, but I am the opposite of a News Junkie, for me it's important as I have a Mrs who of course needs the channels for her Telenovelas, I would be fu..ed without Cable for more than 12 hrs, even that I myself do not watch stuff for more than a few hours total per Year ***

Electric going up since I found that the electric was half stolen from the apartment upstairs.. runs about $1500 in winter and up to a whopping $3500 last month.

Internet and telephone average about $2000 pesos *** here I am more expensive, but I live from the Net and the Phone, even that I am not a big friend with either, but I need them, lol ***

Maid $700 pesos a week for one day, about five hours *** here we are much cheaper on the usually more expensice Eastshores in PC, a Maid costs for a Day 300 Pesos which includes a day's work like washing, cooking, cleaning the house, taking care about the Baby the same time etc ***

Food varies completely depending on who is visiting but ususally about US $500 a month. *** in reality Food is something very personal, and mostly anyways depending on the Visitor's personal taste, yes. there are BBQ's on the Beach where 5000 pesos are spend on just the Foodies for just a few people, and there are BBQ's on da same beach where 3.000.- are more than enough for the same amount of people including the drinks to get everyone happy ***

I do not have a car but rent one about once a month to go to beach for a day - or sometimes to travel about for a weekend . costs about a thousand pesos a day. It is such a beautiful country that it is hard to stay home. *** while I love to drive my Truck over a Beach, to do so here at home I need to walk 3 times the distance to the parking place to get da Truck than I need to walk to da Beach and then get my feet wet without Diesel spent, lol ***

Taxis perhaps once a week at 400 pesos round trip *** here I know we live in different worlds, a 400 pesos/10 $US would be a minimum fare on the East for a Cabby to bring you just a 50 meters around the corner, one way, no roundtrip. I stick to my Truck anyways ***

movies 250 pesos *** I don't need da Movies, I have Internet to connect on DR1 ***

manicure at the high end salon once a month // 300 pesos *** No Comment from a Fisherman married to a Dominican Wife. did I mention that my Baby and my Chihuahua are Girls, too? yes, you assumed right, they both get their nails done at least twice a week, too, it is NOT My Fault and my Mom did not teach me to allow such, but Life is a flexibel Biach. ***

fresh flowers once a week 200 pesos *** I enjoy fresh Flowers daily, when walking the Beach through the Flower Garden every morning, I would not dare to kill them just to bring them to the Mrs back home. if she wanna have fresh flowers she can just walk the same path and enjoy them without killing them. ***

medical insurance .. 20,000 pesos for three months. *** we are not significantly apart on that one ***

pool and gym membership 2000 pesos *** my lil Pool is the Ocean and after a day of work on da water/boats I need anything but a GYM, lol. ***

condo fee 2000 pesos *** don't know what that is, but never mind. ***

and I am sure that I have forgotten something because no matter how it is when I set up my budget and see that I have plenty of money, I never have much left at the end of the month

ok../. so what if I die in debt? does that matter much, do you think? I mean, when I get to the pearly gates? If I still owe American Express?

Debt is something I hate, I want things to be really mine, a TV owed to a Bank and a Car on Credit could not make me happy. if I crash my Truck for what ever reason means I crashed MY Truck and I do not owe anybody for it, and with the money in the pocket I can right away start shopping around for the next Truck or Car. like going on vacation on the Credit of a Credit Card, I would be ashamed on myself to do so, when I can efford to pay it, then I go and enjoy, otherwise I stay at home on da darn calm caribbean Beach doing BBQ's with da Neighbours on Sundays and sipping not all inclusive but paid for Beers from the Colmado at the Corner.


agreed on the Budget calculations.
right now for myself I am in the middle of every year's 10 weeks lasting Low Season, Biz running in the Red Numbers, as usual this time of the year, but we come by, pay the rent and the food and the Pampers and even the Salon for my 3 Girls. in Theory during the High Season Months there should be a bunch of money left over on da budget, but never mind, it may be just because the Salon get's higher prices then compared to the actual low season, ha ha.

our Costs are over all not far apart(fingernails and the poor flowers aside).

Mike

 

[frank12]

you know that the flowers are grown in Constanza? for export? and they are sold here on the street by the little tribe outside the supermarket .. the ones that do not make the planes for NY and Paris etc.. so I am very lucky to have them and it really keeps the little tribe alive. The florist is married to the guy who fixes my shoes. And we are lucky that a tailor moved in next door.

Honestly, you guys never seem to rag any of the men who spend their money on women and beer

but when I get $6 of fresh flowers and a Ten dollar manicure, I am LIVING too LARGE?

HAHA... the paradox is mind boggling. I feel you're pain Mountainannie. By the way, are you familiar with Mountain Girl (Born Carolyn Elizabeth Adams), she hung out with Ken Kesy and his Merry Pranksters, and was featured in Tom Wolfe's book--"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." She was also married to Jerry Garcia from the Greatful Dead, and enjoyed some other fame and recognition. She is around 66 and lives in Northern California somewhere...probably up in the mountains...hence her name: Mountain Girl.

Love Frank

 

[Aguaita29]

it's not about the Manicure, Babe,
it's a piece of Social Life to be at the Salon twice a week and talk all the lil Town's News with all da other Girlies,
it;s not about the Manicure itself for the DR Woman.
heck,
I am married to one,
if it would be the Manicure or doing her Hair Only she could do it herself here at home where she has the better equipment and products to do so.
after I installed such here at home of course I found out quickly that she didn't wanna have a darn Blower in da House, or the products for straightening Hairs or the stuff for colouring the stuff on da Head.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!
a DR Salon is about sozializing Only,
that you get your Hair and Nails also done there, one doing the new fingernail paintings of an other, that's just a li side effect.

Mike

The only women who enjoy losing time at the Salon are the ones who have nothing else to do! Someone who has errands to run, a job, kids, an event to go to, etc, just wants to go in and get it over with as fast as possible.

I used to have salon equipment at home and my sister used to do my hair and that was great. I guess that's why I now hate going to the Salon and it really gets on my nerves.
Sometimes salon staff is not very appreciative of people's times! Some stop what they're doing to answer personal phone calls or chat.

Maybe your wife really enjoys socializing at the Salon but maybe what she needs is someone to come over to your house. Don't expect her to want to do a process on herself, especially if her hair is already relaxed. Not even salon owners do stuff on their own hair!

 

[Criss Colon]

We have a lady come to the house every Saturday morning.
She does everyone's "Nails",after soaking their feet in a foot massaging warm bath.She does their hands too.
She does all the women in the house,and my little girls too.My 15 year old son gets a manicure once in a while.
She even cuts my toe nails.
My girls, 8 and 10,get the "Salon Treatment" before any "Big Event".
My sister-in-law works in a salon,and does hair for the women-of-the-house.
It is a small price for me to pay for them all to have such a "Good Time" together.
I remember as a young boy,60 years ago,my mother and her sisters and friends getting together in our kitchen to have what we called a "Stinky Party". It "Stunk" because the chemicals they used for their "Permanents" stunk.
As the "Baby Boy" in a house full of older women,you learn what they like,and even more impotant,what they don't like.
They like having their "Day-of-Beauty" VERY VERY MUCH!
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[mountainannie]

The condo fee covers the cost of city water and the electricity for the common areas of the apartment, and the cost of the attendant who cleans the parking lot and halls.

I agree that the nail salon is indeed a bit about the social life but it is also about pampering one's self. At first here I was shocked at how much time and money the women here spent on their hair and nails but have come to appreciate that they really do not have a whole lot of pleasure and self indulgence in many other areas of their lives. And The local salon is indeed the heart of the village!! Plus, of course, the standards for dress, nails, hair, and all that are much higher in the Capital.. I have another wardrobe entirely for the beach!! Here in the City I even iron my clothes,.

I am sure that I could pay my maid less. I just do not because she does work that I do not want to do and she does it much better than I do and she is very good at it.

 

[william webster]

" together.
I remember as a young boy,60 years ago,my mother and her sisters and friends getting together in our kitchen to have what we called a "Stinky Party". It "Stunk" because the chemicals they used for their "Permanents" stunk.
As the "Baby Boy" in a house full of older women,you learn what they like,and even more impotant,what they don't like.
They like having their "Day-of-Beauty" VERY VERY MUCH!
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I know the feeeling... I live in a houseful of women.

We had a male dog.... they neutered him --- I hid in the closet that day.
They missed me.......

 

[MikeFisher]

The only women who enjoy losing time at the Salon are the ones who have nothing else to do! Someone who has errands to run, a job, kids, an event to go to, etc, just wants to go in and get it over with as fast as possible.

I used to have salon equipment at home and my sister used to do my hair and that was great. I guess that's why I now hate going to the Salon and it really gets on my nerves.
Sometimes salon staff is not very appreciative of people's times! Some stop what they're doing to answer personal phone calls or chat.

Maybe your wife really enjoys socializing at the Salon but maybe what she needs is someone to come over to your house. Don't expect her to want to do a process on herself, especially if her hair is already relaxed. Not even salon owners do stuff on their own hair!

she is doing bthe hair of the Grannies at home, that's the use of the equipment.
that she spend's once or twice a week an hour at her friend's Saloon right aside the backentrance to our House, what's the Fuss? she does not need to work, her job is to be a housewife and raise the Kids, cook for us and keep the house clean, socialize with Her Friends where ever She want's which includes our House, our Beach and her friend's House(Salon).
she does not need to ask to receive visits of her friends and usually there are several visits per day in da house, simple normal houselife, it doesn't get boring.
and she paints the Nails of half of the Town, at home, at the salon, on the street, on the Beach, for Free, simply becuase she like's to do that stuff. no need to change a thing.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

The condo fee covers the cost of city water and the electricity for the common areas of the apartment, and the cost of the attendant who cleans the parking lot and halls.

I agree that the nail salon is indeed a bit about the social life but it is also about pampering one's self. At first here I was shocked at how much time and money the women here spent on their hair and nails but have come to appreciate that they really do not have a whole lot of pleasure and self indulgence in many other areas of their lives. And The local salon is indeed the heart of the village!! Plus, of course, the standards for dress, nails, hair, and all that are much higher in the Capital.. I have another wardrobe entirely for the beach!! Here in the City I even iron my clothes,.

I am sure that I could pay my maid less. I just do not because she does work that I do not want to do and she does it much better than I do and she is very good at it.

o.k., got it.
what you show as the Condo Fee I do have already included in the Rent I showed, including the Cable TV, too. the Rent covers the Lightning of the large Parking Area, the walkways between the 5 Buildings and the Beach Area, 2 Guards on Daytime and 2 Guards on Nighttime, 3 Guys cleaning the Beach from Seaweed and all the Area from anything bothering including doing the Gardening, 1 Guy who is the Maintenance Guy doing reparations and maintenance where needed like electricity, plumming, fixing a blocked sink etc etc and one Carpenter taking care of the Woodwork on the Property and in the House.
yes, agreed,
for the Women the Salon once a week is the meeting point as the Clomadon is for the Men to grab a Beer with the Buddies and have a chat, or in my case to spend some hours of a saturday afternoon at a Bar and watch a Soccer Game, socializing on an average Level. others may prefer a Golf Club's Clubhouse or to be seen at fancy clubs/spots, I prefer to stay in Town surrounded by average People and have a average chat.

Mike

 

[MikeFisher]

I know the feeeling... I live in a houseful of women.

We had a male dog.... they neutered him --- I hid in the closet that day.
They missed me.......

ha ha ha, get missed and stay happy, lol.
aside of the numerous and mostly present parttime visitors/inclinos I am also the only Male in da House after the sudden death of my first Chihuahua, who was a Male.
I guess he couldn't stand it anymore to get his nails painted as a Male Dog, lol.
there's the Wifey, there's the baby Gal, of course the new Chihuahua is a Gal, too, Nanny is a Female and most of the Parttime Visitors are females, too.
sure I have my 'moments' where I have to leave the house for a couple Beers elsewhere or when I kick 'em out for a few hours to their Beach, just to relax the Atmosphere. WOMEN!
but what would we do without our Females? we Love 'em.

Mike