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<p>Here is how to put up wallpaper and stay happily married/coupled:</p>
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<li><p>Everyone helps with surface prep and (ugh) picking out wallpaper from the roughly 34 quintillion patterns at the home improvement store.</p></li>
<li><p>Person in charge of wallpapering assembles supplies, gets roll-moistening tray/glue tray out, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Other person leaves the house.</p></li>
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<p>:D</p>
<p>The spouse really enjoys going up on the roof along with the leaf blower. It’s a one story house; I might not be so sanguine about this if it were a two-story. Regardless, no one gets to go up on the roof when there’s not someone else at home.</p>
<p>Putting up the outdoor Christmas lights. We had someone in our neighborhood fall off a ladder and die from his head injury. That put a damper on the season…</p>
<p>Yikes! who pumps out their own septic system? I try very hard not even to be home when the process begins.</p>
<p>Our septic pump failed a couple of years ago. Pure bad luck. H, bless his heart, opened the lid on the tank that had the pump in it and tested the darn thing with a multimeter. :eek: At least when I called the repair guys, I could tell them exactly what the problem was and they came in with the replacement part. The worst part - H kept the broken pump in his pile of “things that migh be useful someday” (triple :eek:)</p>
<p>^^^ Ewwww – Bunsen, I’m getting to know you better than I had hoped to. :D</p>
<p>I’ve got a septic story that’s even more horrifying than BB’s–my neighbor’s septic backed up into the house on Christmas Eve. She actually found a septic guy to come out and help her that night! She can’t say enough good things about the company!</p>