We desperately need furniture for our place and there doesn't seem to be the same overabundance of free furniture dumped all over the streets like there was in San Francisco. Not to mention people try to get top dollar for all of their things off craigslist (100 euros for a 2 year old ikea table? Please.) Luckily we did find one nice guy who offered us his two shelves for free. He assured us he lived quite close to us and that we should have no problem carrying the things back to our house. While we were walking we realized that when he said close to our house he meant on the other side of town. About an hour later we arrived at his house and realized that each bookshelf had to weigh at least 100 pounds. Maybe over the phone he didn't realize that Judy was only 5 feet tall and weighs only 90 pounds but there was no way we could do it. We tried with one and got about a half block before we ditched it behind a building. We headed back to the house to try to think of a new method. Judy came up with the brilliant idea of using our old suitcases as makeshift dollies and off we went again. The one we ditched was long gone by the time we returned so we tried with the other one. It worked pretty good and minus a few little bumps and a million puzzled stares we welcomed our new shelf into our little home.
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oh man! Too bad you did not get both of them. Hmm...well one i better than none!
ahaha, getting anything reasonably large into a paris apartment is always a nightmare. i was living there this time last year &had many difficult trips to &from the apartment moving things in &out. totally worth it though!
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