Your partner may always have your best interests at heart, when comes to renovating the house. However it is always best to go with your own instinct and remove your smurf collection before it is too late or it could end up in tears, like it almost did for me. Allow me to demonstrate this with a series of photographs.
1.Husband decides to paint window frame ensuring me that I won’t need to move any smurfs – Tennis Smurfette ends up in paint tin
Famous last words quoted by my husband — ‘no you won’t need to move your smurfs, they will be fine where they are!’
2. A series of nasty looks and exchanges are made towards the husband, while Tennis Smurfette is being rescued from the paint tin.
‘She will be fine’ my husband tells me as he retrieves Tennis Smurfette out of the paint tin
3. I continue to mutter under my breath, while Tennis Smurfette is given a bath in a jar of turps. At this point it should be stated I am not amused by all of this.
Slowly the white paint is disappearing and I start to see Tennis Smurfette as she should be
4. Tennis Smurfette has survived her ordeal! My husband has also survived from his ordeal!
You would hardly know Tennis Smurfette had fallen into a tin of white paint and my husband was almost divorced.
The moral of my story is when doing any paint or repair work around your house and it involves your precious smurf collection, don’t listen to your partner who thinks they know what is best, go with what your own heart is telling you.
Keep on Smurfin
Kath B