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![A middle-aged married couple shake hands on a deal concerning their D.I.Y. projects.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-deal.jpg)
Bob Barnes
October 9, 1954
![A woman shows her friend the shoddily-made end table her husband made.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-made-out-of-a-table.jpg)
Don Tobin
September 18, 1954
![A woman and her friend comment on one of their husband's awful D.I.Y. project, which is a short end table made out of an old log.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-a-phase.jpg)
Frank O’Neal
July 31, 1954
![A woman tells her husband to keep the awful chair he made in the basement.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-stay-down-here.jpg)
Ben Roth
July 3, 1954
![Woman comments on her husband's carpentry project to her friend.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-sawdust-noise.jpg)
June 26, 1954
![Woman shows her husband's D.I.Y. projects to their friends while insulting him.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2020-08-25-carpentry-cartoons-bizarre-room.jpg)
Peter Wyma
May 7, 1955
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Comments
I’m guilty of making sawdust and noise like in cartoon number 6, with not much else to show for it. My dad and grandfather had the talent in that area, certainly not myself. Bob, I always like your comments on the Post’s various articles. It’s both what you say and the clever ways you say it. Wish I had that talent too. Oh well.
I like them all about the same, but particularly #4 by Ben Roth. I’m figuring this was enough of a real trend in the mid-fifties for Post readers then to find them relatable, and likely ever since. 2020 is likely producing some do-it-yourself calamities with husbands that have too much time on their hands.