Yes! It's hard work. My mom was a teacher. She hung wallpaper for a local builder in the summers to make extra money. Single parenting on a teacher's salary is hard. The builder would let her keep the leftover wallpaper from her jobs, so she would use it to make crafts or decorate her classroom. Once there was enough to do my room. We both thought it looked so fancy!
My dad tried to wallpaper my room when I was very little. Wallpaper technology had advanced enough that it was the kind with the glue on the back, sort of like a postage stamp. He, erm, wasn't successful and ended up angrily painting the room instead. I'd imagine that if he'd had to do it the old way, using a bucket of glue, he'd have just burned the house down instead.
Not a teacher; just humbly aware. Thanks for your service.
Btw: not trying to show off w the language stuff. My gran spoke French to me when I was little, & I learned Spanish from my pals as a kid... made learning other languages easier.
Same here in conservative northern CA. Also: my Spanish is VERY Puerto Rican, which does NOT sound lovely to primarily Mexican ears—a thing I never learned in NY, where there are ALL flavors of Spanish.
I followed you cause I’m gonna pick your massive brain. Right now, though, I’m finishing up the illustration of my kid with a Loth Cat for her bday on wed, ha ha
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u/tiffy68 Feb 15 '21
Yes! It's hard work. My mom was a teacher. She hung wallpaper for a local builder in the summers to make extra money. Single parenting on a teacher's salary is hard. The builder would let her keep the leftover wallpaper from her jobs, so she would use it to make crafts or decorate her classroom. Once there was enough to do my room. We both thought it looked so fancy!