Word: footstool
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Last year’s contest winner created a footstool for the bathroom of the restaurant, explaining—in writing on the stool—that she did so because she was too short to see the mirror...
...thriller 16 Blocks. But don't ask him to talk too much about himself to sell it. "I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you," he says. "You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman." An ottoman? You mean, like a footstool? "Ottoman just sounds sexier. Footstool just sounds like a medical condition to me." Mos's dignity is probably safe for a while longer...
...traveled to the family home to start to divide the family heirlooms. Their brother Harry was in touch by phone before making the trip south from Washington. The brothers asked Harry what he wanted from the house. He named a few things. Then his wife Helen remembered the footstool, the homely one with fringe running along the bottom...
...footstool was something we had given to her years ago, and I just really wanted it back," Helen explains. "And it wasn't necessarily something we needed or would even use, but once people started claiming things, I started worrying about what our kids might get to inherit from that side of the family. And then it hit me--I realized that I was willing to fight over a footstool. It was pretty embarrassing." Her husband let the footstool go to a niece...
...house, putting stickers on what we wanted. Anything with two or more stickers on it was bid on, with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some antique furniture and jewelry to pass down to his six children and, best of all, photo albums of the Hagerty clan spanning the past century. "Knowing my children will eventually inherit these family...