It became apparent that I needed a dresser, to try to tame the entropic pile of clean and semi-dirty laundry in my closet... being that it was going inside my closet, I didn't want to pay a whole lot for it.
We looked and looked and looked, scoped out prices at the local thrift stores and finally I settled on one.
It was a little larger than I had envisioned, but I was excited to get it home and see how it was going to transform my life! That excitement was short-lived when we discovered we couldn't actually get it in the back of the car *sigh*... They were nice, and despite being busy refunded my money, only giving me a mildly hard time about it because they "don't do returns" until I pointed out that I literally could not get it out. of. the. parking. lot.
I was a little bummed... but we resolved to keep looking, as that must not have been the right one anyways ;)
The next one I liked I found at the swap meet, I was happy with the drawers -they slid nicely, it was a decent price, and it wasn't made of particle board like everything else these days. I ended up tipping the guy $10 after he single-handedly manhandled it up the stairs like a hero, carried it 30' down the sidewalk and deposited it into the back of our car.
When we got home I was even more impressed when we unloaded it, and considered it well worth the extra $10.
I spent the next ~3 hours cleaning, wiping, and pledging the dirt and grime off of it. While removing the drawers to clean them and vacuum the dust out I was rewarded with a clean pair of socks, and guys boxer shorts -also hopefully clean- from where they had fallen behind.
Moving along, this far into a cleaning project I'm in the groove... I'm working away, I've got the shop-vac swishing around inside doing it's thing, pushing out enough white noise to drown out the dogs next door, when suddenly there's something there in the drawer... something that wasn't there before. Not so far from where I was *just* vacuuming. Something black. and shiny. withlegsandfricken' HUUUUUUGE!!!!!!
I levitated backwards at least a foot and half screaming obscenities I'm sure the neighbours 3 doors in either direction heard. I also scared at least a year and a half off of my roommate who had been working away behind me on something else...
She was yelling at me for scaring her, until I pointed out the *size* of the black widow that had started the whole thing.
We skipped the raid and went straight to the heavy duty bug barrier that's supposed to kill things dead in their tracks. She sprayed it, and dripping it staggered sideways and then just continued along?!? She sprayed it again and it dropped down, but kept walking towards us! I whipped out a trusty flip-flop and *splat* it was all over. We figured that it had probably eaten everything else in sight, but I very carefully double checked anyways ;)
And now? Here is the dresser that has transformed mylife closet, see what a good job it's doing? I would have taken a before picture, but you'll just have to trust me... it was much too embarrassing to show the world.
We looked and looked and looked, scoped out prices at the local thrift stores and finally I settled on one.
It was a little larger than I had envisioned, but I was excited to get it home and see how it was going to transform my life! That excitement was short-lived when we discovered we couldn't actually get it in the back of the car *sigh*... They were nice, and despite being busy refunded my money, only giving me a mildly hard time about it because they "don't do returns" until I pointed out that I literally could not get it out. of. the. parking. lot.
I was a little bummed... but we resolved to keep looking, as that must not have been the right one anyways ;)
The next one I liked I found at the swap meet, I was happy with the drawers -they slid nicely, it was a decent price, and it wasn't made of particle board like everything else these days. I ended up tipping the guy $10 after he single-handedly manhandled it up the stairs like a hero, carried it 30' down the sidewalk and deposited it into the back of our car.
When we got home I was even more impressed when we unloaded it, and considered it well worth the extra $10.
I spent the next ~3 hours cleaning, wiping, and pledging the dirt and grime off of it. While removing the drawers to clean them and vacuum the dust out I was rewarded with a clean pair of socks, and guys boxer shorts -also hopefully clean- from where they had fallen behind.
Moving along, this far into a cleaning project I'm in the groove... I'm working away, I've got the shop-vac swishing around inside doing it's thing, pushing out enough white noise to drown out the dogs next door, when suddenly there's something there in the drawer... something that wasn't there before. Not so far from where I was *just* vacuuming. Something black. and shiny. withlegsandfricken' HUUUUUUGE!!!!!!
I levitated backwards at least a foot and half screaming obscenities I'm sure the neighbours 3 doors in either direction heard. I also scared at least a year and a half off of my roommate who had been working away behind me on something else...
She was yelling at me for scaring her, until I pointed out the *size* of the black widow that had started the whole thing.
We skipped the raid and went straight to the heavy duty bug barrier that's supposed to kill things dead in their tracks. She sprayed it, and dripping it staggered sideways and then just continued along?!? She sprayed it again and it dropped down, but kept walking towards us! I whipped out a trusty flip-flop and *splat* it was all over. We figured that it had probably eaten everything else in sight, but I very carefully double checked anyways ;)
And now? Here is the dresser that has transformed my
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