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You’ve got to take those wins when they come.
When we first bought our house we needed a curtain pole for a bay window. I kept putting the job off, so my wife bought some ridiculously unusable and inappropriate stuff from ikea and told me to fit it. After about 10 minutes I explained that these were unusable and wouldn’t work. She looked at me very sternly and explained that she didn’t care, “just put some curtains up”. I protested, but she told she was tired of sitting in the living room with no curtains in the evening she didn’t care how they looked just get it sorted, so I went ahead dutifully and put up the worst looking curtain rail you ever saw. After a few weeks it looked like a fucking rollercoaster. Now, none of this would bother me too much, but my wife took a photo and stuck it on Facebook (more for lols than anything malicious) I’m not on there but loads of mates and family commented and I got DIY shamed for a job I didn’t even want to do.
I solved it for under £30 with a long length of copper pipe, a pipe spring and some corks in the end, but no Facebook post for that. /csb
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I bought and put some curtains up yesterday. Went to one shop which had everything I needed, didn't discover halfway through that I needed some extra tools or fittings, it was level first time, didn't have to do any extra jobs on issues that I uncovered whilst doing the main job and the curtains are still up this morning.
I can only assume that the house is going to fall down or something to make up for it going so smoothly.