15 Answers

Install it yourself with no argument at all?  Buy your own computer?

Ducky

Emotion passed! All in favor?

Ducky

:)

Tell him you need to see what daren1 looks like , I'm sure that would do it..

You might try the old --- “I will hold my breath until you do trick”.

It has been time tested and it works.

I agree with @Ducka, do it yourself. Don't y'all share the computer?

My husband just hides the toolbar when he is using the computer... he also turns the sound off.  He isn't bothered by it at all.

Here are the benifits for me... see if any apply to you.

1- When I am talking to other ceramic artists and we want to share ideas or show each other what we are up to we can very easily with Skype.  Some of these friends live quite far away.  Skype is better than just emailing as you can show the work from all sides.

I can speak with my three Uncles who live in other parts of the world for free.  It is almost as good as having them over for a cup of coffee.

One of my Uncles likes to be there when I open the kiln.  I put my laptop on the work table and we open the kiln together.  It is fun.

My Mother lives 12 hours away by car... We talk on Skype... again, like having her over for coffee and a cake without having to break any eggs.

I sometimes have conference calls with friends (no video involved)... I can work and have a chit-chat at exactly the same time... so much easier than the phone and again, free.

... maybe you could switch out kiln and Uncle to make these arguments work for you.

Good Luck.

Ducky

Oh fishlet...you are sooooooooo creative! :)
And...you and your husband sound like a great match!!
<3 <3

Ducky

I think he is too! :)

Tell him the headless man will get him...........

Do you have a friend that can install Skype for you ?

Ducky

You can just go to Google and type in Skype and follow a few simple steps. There is nothing to it.

Jenn- He could use it to talk to his friends and relatives that live far away too.

What a shame to miss out on something that is free, skype is better than the telephone.

Refuse to feed him till he gives in. That would definitely work here. There might be one other thing I would hold off on.........

Jenn its your computer- do what you want with it. no need to seek permission. You are living in 21st century.

I think it is good of you to respect that it is his laptop. Besides, if something quirky ever happened with it, he wouldn't be blaming it on you. What I'd do though is, get that other computer into the shop and see if it's worth fixing! It might not cost much at all...but, you'll never know until you have it checked out.

If you are still wanting to get skype on your hubby's laptop...I guess you've got to start by finding out why he doesn't want it. Then go from there in persuading him.

Say, " Honey, If we have Skype here, and you have it on your computer at work, then you can see preveiws of coming attractions of what we're going to do after the kids go to bed."  And tell him that you're going to put yourself naked on Skpe to send to him, or wearing an itty-bitty bikini.   :-)

Bob/PKB reads the entire question and then posts this dumb response: 
I don't see where he said he doesn't want this on the computer, and I did read all the comments. Why don't you simply ask him to install it.  Shootah has your best answer. 

Edited response:  Shootah has your best answer. 

Colleen

Quote Jenn: "He does not want to put skype on the new computer."