My wife Kelly and I will never agree on this one. In my opinion, when it comes to painting projects, it is OK to cut some corners. In her opinion it must be painted, even if you can’t see it. But, even I will agree that it sometimes it does matter.

When we were painting our kitchen, we learned a bit about each other — I’m sloppy and she’s squeaky (my clean code for another word). There is a strip of wood underneath our sink - way underneath. In fact, not only is it underneath, but it is underneath, up and back. It is a strip of wood that will never see light, and no one will ever see that it isn’t painted. Unless you are Kelly inspecting her husband’s handiwork - or according to her after seeing my omission, “sloppy work”. I’m a practical guy. If it doesn’t need to be painted, then I’m not going to use one moment of my limited time on this earth painting it. But to Kelly it matters - she knows it isn’t painted, and therefore it needs to be painted. Like I said, we won’t agree on this one.

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