It gets better, just hang on and fun will return :-)
For us life is almost 100% fun even when the grandchildren come - they're better with us than they are with their own parents. They know that yes means yes and no means no here and whining gets them nowhere.
Ah, but animals also slaughter other animals unnecessarily, and shit and piss everywhere, and destroy habitats. And commit gross acts of corporal violence on each other.
according to Nu Laber, we are supposed to be forced to be above all that.
Our queen cat is now pregnant again, and her last son is now persona non grata and gets a cuff round the head every time he wants to be coddled.
In todays Brave New World that would net the mother a jail sentence, and the cat a free 6 months of counselling to help him put 'closure' on his 'feelings of rejection'.
"I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I like. It's like Volkswagens or bell-bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun."
I told my son about the door slamming/removal of doors idea and when ge got in from school today he told me he'd not slammed the door - so it's def struck a chord with him.
Yes. Ask the family to close the windows. Quietly.
It's important to think of DIY in a wide context and with lateral thought. This is inclusive of anything and any idea that doesn't involve bringing in an outside party. Therefore it's just as valid to discuss how to prevent the door being banged "at source" than to deal with the outcome. In fact it's even better, considering the principle of "give me a fish and I will eat today, teach me to fish and I will eat always".
Fixing the result is really akin to a bodge rather than crafting a proper solution. DIY is not about bodging but doing a job better than a professional.
Given all of that, there have been many more DIY solutions than bodges in answers on this thread.
It was all free as well. A professional would charge a lot of money for such sage counseling.
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