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Can you have kids AND nice furniture?

Can you have kids AND nice furniture?

Is it best to put off owning something you’d enjoy, or keep a beloved heirloom locked away until some later, safer date? I decided to ask the experts.

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I was standing in the kitchen, unloading the dishwasher, when I heard the cheerful voice of my 22-month-old from the living room. “Dark blue,” he sang, “Dark, dark blue!”

So cute, I thought, stacking plates. I wonder what he’s singing about. Then, with sudden certainty, I knew. The rug. Oh God, the rug.

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