Number 4 for sure. She goes around with the same soft cloth, and wipes down the wooden furniture when cleaning. That's how you scratch it. You're supposed to lift the dust off with clean microfiber towels that you fold over in quarters. After every lift you fold it over to get a clean surface to pull off the dust. You can use one towel about 8 times. Then you use another clean microfiber towel and continue. You don't wipe a dusty surface - it will scratch over time.
Another thing my wife does is pull a cord out of the wall by pulling on it. She'll do that with the vacuum, USB charging cables, etc. I told her she's damaging the heads. Over time the wires start to get loose. You're supposed to put your fingers on the head of the plugs and pull them out from there.
My wife is not bad with the walls and I have also collected stuff so I can't blame her for that.
I did some electrical work in the basement and removed a wood ceiling panel section to get access to a shaft. The wood panel sat in the basement for a few years. I went out of town for about a week. When I came back, I discovered that she threw that out on garbage day. WTF! I planned to put it back up but was a bit lazy. Now I'll have to recreate that panel.
I know of a guy who saved all the paint lids of all the rooms in the house in the garage. That way he had the color codes in case he had to touch up the rooms. Well, his wife decided to do some spring cleaning and threw all the lids out - lmao! He was apparently bitching for a while about that. She also once hosed the walls down in the garage and got some of his tools wet.
Re panel for years, are you from the West Indies?
Re codes, I wrote down the codes for the three paints used for my new (2005) home office. Had some water damage to the ceiling last year, so I brought the codes to HD to get a couple of pints of paint. Ceiling paint was perfect, but the Phukkers changed the wall color - slightly but enough that I don't look up when I enter my office. Phukkers.
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