I brought Gary to the Home Depot where I showed him the shelves I have lusted after for over a year. He also fell in lust and a three-way with the shelves is planned for this weekend. Or, a seven-way, because we got five sets of shelves.
Boring, you say? No. Imagine them on wheels, baby, because that’s the plan, giant shelves on five-inch wheels so if the basement walls spring a leak we can just run everything to the other side of the basement.
So, 2013 is the year of the Basement Purge, the Basement Gutting, and the Basement Roll-o-rama Redecoration.
Shelves on wheels, bitches.
Of course, part of the Christmas gift is also helping me with the gutting and purging. But with five shelves, we can just shelve everything.
(Gary made so many references to putting dead bodies on the shelves that the Home Depot delivery scheduler threatened to make a note of it in the memo field.)
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And as you do this, reflect on poor souls who have no basements.
No, Hattie, I envy those people with no basements!
And you’ll need large bins. Otherwise, everyone puts lots of loose stuff on the shelves; and when you try to roll them, it all falls off.
The basement to my house is large and useless. It does hold the washer, dryer, hot water heater and furnace, but other than that, there’s nothing going on in the basement. Only bitter memories of Irene and a really expensive backup sump pump.
Ah, Irene. She’s the one that pulled the dryer off the wall in my father’s basement, causing a gas leak. I hate that bitch.
My stuff is in large plastic bins on the shelves. I spent $160 on shelves, and $300 on the stupid bins.
Hattie- I grew up on a slab. I know.Suburbancorrespondent – I have been pricing bins already. Becs – I thought you purged your basement, but some stuff went back in, did it not?Tami – My gift depleted Gary’s checking account. (My gift was blamed, not the nine iPads he has bought this year.) So, I’ll be on my own for bins and wheels.