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The Rest Is Best
By Lorna Foreman
Change,Challenges
and a Favourite Chair
The give and take of combining households
chair cannot and will
not go,” he says with a
“That
determined voice. “I have
sat and read in it for over 25 years and
some of my best ideas were hatched
there. It’s staying.”
“But it doesn’t match the rest of
our furniture,”she responds with equal
determination.
Ah, the joys of combining households.When
you are in your early 20s,
just finished university or college, you
haven’t accumulated as much “stuff”
and when you form a permanent relationship
at that point in your life it is
usually one that does not come with a
lot of furniture — or at least nice furniture.
(Ah yes, that wonderful word
“stuff.”) When you are older, perhaps
entering into a second marriage or
long-term relationship, it becomes an
amazing undertaking: one that can
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present all sorts of problems if you let
it.After all, it was his chair and it has a
right to be kept.A flip of the coin can
determine which toaster stays but
there are some more important items
to be considered.
So what does one do? I have
talked about this a lot with friends,
some of whom have gone through the
experience. It turns out that there is a
variety of scenarios.
It is, it seems, usually the woman
who does all the decorating in a
house.Usually,but not the rule.My late
husband told me to go ahead and paint
the living room any colour I wanted.
Well, being a fair-minded person, I
brought home as many paint chips as
my conscience would allow and sat
down one evening to go over them.To
make a long story short, it turned out
that he would go along with any