Brilliant Ideas - lack of abiity = comical/painful mess

Today we went to Atlanta to the Habitat for Humanity Restore looking for kitchen cabinets, bookcases or something that would work to begin our wall of bookcases.  The idea is to have cabinets on the bottom and shelves on top to prevent the cats from lying on the bottom shelves and tossing everything off.

We found government metal file cabinets - the long ones at a reasonable price.  Two volunteers got them into the car (which struggled a bit getting them home).  Then we faced the problem: now what the f*ck do we do?  How do we get them out of the car?  Sliding them over the carpet was not going to be easy.

I came up with an idea and told Mom to open the garage door and bring down the sledge hammer.  She stopped dead in her tracks.  "Just grab it, okay?"

She brought me the sledge hammer and I took it to the broken pressboard bookcase the movers broke.  I then put one of the shelves under a shelving unit and that enabled us to slide it out of the car and onto the dolly on end.  Unfortunately it was too heavy for the hand trucks we have.

Okay, now what?

We went to Home Depot and rented an appliance hand truck and then struggled to get it over rough ground (complete with rocks and small rain gulleys) and got to the back porch.  We tipped the darn thing up onto the stairs and got it into the porch.

Repeat for 2nd shelving unit.  We looked like the Three Stooges tackling a problem with a missing Stooge!

Step 3 (or is it 7?) - hope the strained muscles and disabled bodies hold up long enough to get the hand truck back to Home Depot.

At Home Depot we bought furniture coasters to move these things inside the house and a new weed whacker.

We left the shelving units on the porch for now.  We'll move them tomorrow.

We love Home Depot.  We love Aleve meds.  We love the friendly people in the South.