One of the Christmas presents we bought for ourselves was a new bookcase for our kitchen. Furniture is always a great gift! Along with everything else we had to do to get ready for Xmas yesterday - finish wrapping gifts, make Amigurumi Snowmen, and grocery shop for family brunch. We had to wait for a furniture delivery.
Now, it is always a challenge to get furniture delivered upstate. You have to order furniture through catalog companies that actually deliver here. We have had some disasters in the past but last night was by far one of the worst. We ordered this very large bookcase for our kitchen and bought something that had to be assembled because the scale was so large. The delivery men showed up late as usual - an hour after their four hour window in the dark with snow falling. The worst part - they had assembled the bookcase already. Big problem since it won't fit through the door. We had two choices - refuse it and send it back and God knows when we would ever see it again or disassemble it and then reassemble it once it was in the house. I asked the movers if they could see if it could be pulled apart. They were completely useless. So, they had to deliver the bookcase intact and sit it outside our back door in 4 inches of snow on the ground. Then, we had to disassemble it ourselves in the dark in the snow and Tim and I had to move it indoors ourselves and reassemble. Needless to say, there is going to be a nasty phone call made on Monday! However, we love the bookcase and it's always nice that there will be a little story attached when people ask about it.
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