Another Building Project...!

Since early on in our Southern experience we/I have needed more storage space for my "stuff".  Dear One got me a great four shelf unit.  It was plastic. I have come to deplore plastic.  The less plastic I have to touch/deal with, the better.  So for quite a few months I have pondered, and then longed for, a new shelving unit. The plastic shelves had holes in them.  This would have been great if it was outdoors and needed a place for rain to go, but inside with the variety of items I stored I found that the "bumps" on the bottom of things, such as my sewing toolbox, did not slide onto the shelves well.

The ideal shelving unit I found at Sam's Club.  It is 24" by 48" by 72".  AND it has flat shelves with no holes. It is also much larger than the plastic one which I put out at the end of our driveway last Friday and within 15 minutes (literally!!) it was gone!  So great!

The only issue with the Sam's unit was that it had to be put together.

When we first arrived here in this southern town we purchased a tv.  An empty house has no real place for a tv so Dear One searched for a tv storage unit.  And bought it.  I seem to remember it came in the mail.  It was a heavy hummer which we finally managed to get upstairs. Reading the assembly directions again and again and after about five hours of intense togetherness, we managed to assemble it.  And were still married afterwards, I might add, though it was a hard won battle!  We said we would never put together another item.

Not so, it turns out.  We went on to put together a table, two chairs, two bookcases, a bureau, and a side table.  Masochists!!! Anyway, here was another put-together project.  And I won't even tell you the adventures in getting the parts from Sam's Club and into the room where it needed to go.  This time we watched a YouTube video on how to put it together.  This was only somewhat helpful as that guy did not follow the directions.  (He waited until the end to put in the shelves.  Bad idea, it turns out! Fortunately we figured that out by the second shelf!)

Here it is in all its practical beauty with Mother's sewing machine already happily situated.  At the moment I only want to put containers on the shelves that have been thoroughly organized, inventoried, and labeled.  With the children coming next week, and a TON of other necessary projects to do-mostly clean up, throw out projects--I am not sure how solid I will be on that plan, though I really want to.  I am writing this in the middle of the night (well, 3:30 in the morning) but I still hope to leap out of bed at a very good hour in the morning to get  going on today's jobs.