The Psychology of Sheds

Think Valentine’s Day and you tend to think roses, chocolates, long romantic candlelit dinners or pointless yet adorable fuzzy soft toys. You probably don’t think about wooden sheds. But shed sellers online are cashing in on Valentine’s by reminding women that men really do love their sheds. Online retailers were touting the wooden refuges as the ideal Valentine’s gift.

The psychological phenomenon, the indescribable bond between man and shed is completely incomprehendable to many women. Man. He will share his home, his bed, even his oversized shirts with his partner. But woe betide any female who dares cross the threshold into his beloved wooden shed. Why, oh why a falling down, leaky, cold and sodden hut in the bottom of the garden could be a such a sanctuary to any human is beyond the comprehension of many. But Cornwall’s local BBC radio station recently attempted to understand the deep love between a man and his shed by interviewing self-confessed shed lovers. Respondents included several married men who cited their sheds as their ‘escape’ from a ‘nagging other half,’ someone who has converted his into a private bar and several men who claim to live in their sheds.

Quite a clever marketing ploy then, by sellers of wooden sheds, to advertise them as Valentine’s gifts and certainly very novelty! One has to wonder how many they’ll shift in the run up to big day!