Destroy before using
The Mrs. just sent me to the thrift store to pick up her latest "find". We've been looking for a decent dresser for our bedroom.

"This one's really nice - solid wood, big enough to hold everything, but still small enough to maneuver up the (steep & narrow) stairs", she said.

I've brought it home, and it's a crappy, particle board, cheap as fuck thrift store reject. It's also huge. If we manage to get it upstairs without destroying it I'll be shocked.

Edit:
That went as well as expected. The dressers intact, because it's impossible to get it around the corner at the bottom of the stairs. I now have a dresser in my library - just what I need. I'll just start getting dressed downstairs, I guess.

$50 (not) well spent.
(danalan Pretty good, for an amateur., Mon 25 May 2009, 7:47, 2 replies)

Bummer. Particle board doesn't even burn all that well.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 25 May 2009, 8:35, closed)

Can't you dismantle it?
When my sister and brother in law got new bedroom furniture, I helped them shift the old stuff. It came to pieces quite easily, which made transportation downstairs very easy.

Mind you, it took some care not to ruin it for future reassembly.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 25 May 2009, 10:43, closed)