What’s the last thing you want to do when painting? That’s right, spill a bit of paint. So what’s the last thing you want to do while preparing furniture for your new apartment after two days of meditating on masculinity, all while listening to David Deida talk about The Way of the Superior Man? That’s right…spill half a gallon of sage-green paint on someon else’s rented carport. Sigh. Here are tips on how to clean up your manly mess.

• Laugh. Laugh a lot. Then stand still and think about how amazing your life is.
• Use thin cardboard to scoop up the paint. Folders work(ed) really well.
• Use water and lots and lots of paper towels to dilute and soak it all up.
• Laugh a bit. Then use your toothbrush to get paint our of that little hole, then that one, then that one…
• Open a new tooth brush from a fresh package.

That’ll do it for you. You’ll have great looking furniture and no one will ever know you were there.

Good luck!