{"id":126289,"date":"2022-05-04T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-have-i-learned-from-moving-house-there-are-five-stages-of-flatpack-furniture-grief-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:18:31","slug":"what-have-i-learned-from-moving-house-there-are-five-stages-of-flatpack-furniture-grief-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/what-have-i-learned-from-moving-house-there-are-five-stages-of-flatpack-furniture-grief-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"What have I learned from moving house? There are five stages of flatpack-furniture grief | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI refuse to pay for someone to assemble it for me, so I am stuck going through this cycle of emotions until I learn to accept my shoddy handiworkIt seems I have a screw loose \u2013 which is extremely annoying, because I spent the bulk of my weekend screwing. I recently moved into a bigger place, you see, and have had to buy furniture. I\u2019m far too cheap to pay someone competent to put the stuff together (all furniture \u2013 at least the stuff I can afford \u2013 appears to come in 1,000 little pieces), so I have been attempting to do it myself.My wife helped with the weekend assembly efforts, I should add; this wasn\u2019t a solo endeavour. But we are very bad lesbians. According to a YouGov survey, 77% of queer women in the US said they could build flatpack furniture, compared with 58% of heterosexual men and 48% of straight women. I am part of the terrible 23%, though. As I have written before, my dire DIY skills mean I\u2019m an embarrassment to lesbians everywhere. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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