Not that I’m married or anything like that, but I seriously think that if a woman is not going to put her back into some construction/handy work around the house, she ought to marry a handy guy.
I can’t sing the praises of my boyfriend enough. Without him, I would have been totally overwhelmed by renting out my condo. It was still a lot and very stressful, but he definitely knew what to do with all the little stuff around the place and getting stuff done around his house works out well too.
I have done a lot of work with Habitat for Humanity and church mission trips in high school so I’m not really scared of nail guns, pouring concrete or glazing windows. I live to caulk, but I hate exterior paint. If you really aren’t sure what you can do, try volunteering for a day with HFH. They really need handy types and once you get accustomed to power tools, you’ll wonder what you did without them. I love my hammer and drill. They make installing a new curtain rod very easy. (Shingling, drywall, insulation are all very easy to learn. I still want to learn to frame up a house, some electrical work and maybe install plumbing fixtures.)
One thing is that my handy roommates in the past made our rent cheap too. One guy was a crackerjack engineer and would routinely fix the small stuff around the house, send the supply list & bill to the landlord and deduct that amount from the rent. It worked out really well for all of us because our landlord accepted the work that he did and she didn’t have to send someone every single time something went wrong.
So ladies, if you aren’t going to learn how to be your own handyman, definitely find someone in your life who is. (Be it a boyfriend, friend, spouse, parent, cousin, etc.)
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Maybe you could just rent the boyfriend out to us unhandy types who forgot to get married? The problem with “handy” guys is that they seem to run on single tracks. For example, my father was good at carpentry and built all kinds of cabinets, shelves, etc. for my first home. But he couldn’t figure out car mechanics to save his life. My daughter’s husband is just the opposite–he pops the hood of any car and fixes whatever is wrong. But ask him to put up drywall? He can’t do it.
I wish my husband were handy! Oh well, that’s problem with marrying for love.
We are both the opposite of handy. Our toilet was running on and off and we did manage to fix that. But it took both of us, probably 1-1.5 hours to fix it, not counting getting the new part! Our toilet was out of commission for more than 24 hours since we had to get the part to take to the hardware store and by the time we did that, the store was closed. 
Darn, my wife messed that one up then
Umm, please bring your tools when you visit!
As a single woman, I borrowed two husbands to move into my condo! I have already offered to loan him out to one friend and my parents.
AMP – I will definitely bring my tools and bf when I visit you.
I really enjoyed volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, so I second that. Also if you want to learn to do things yourself the internet has instructions for pretty much everything.
I second that. BF is freaking awesome around the apartment fixing little things.
The apartment is so much quieter, more peaceful and wonderful to be in now.
No need to call a landlord all the time!
Bridezilla is marrying a professional electrician who can do pretty much everything. We all have designs on him, in a very non-Jerry Springer way.
My best friend in Scotland was told by her mother: “Marry a man who’s handy around the house – or rich enough to pay someone to do it all”.
LOL. I think I’ll start volunteering for HFH to pick up those skills on my own, juuust in case.