What do you get when you combine a renter’s tight budget and oversized furniture? One crazy story.
Last week, my futon, which I ordered from Wal-Mart using the WilliamPaid shopping site, was finally ready for pick up! I had it shipped to a location nearby for free to save a bit of cash. Genius right?
Two problems. I didn’t check the neighborhood that I had it shipped to and failed to notice the size of the shipment. Not good…
At about 8:00 PM, a friend and I jumped into my Grand Am to make the six-mile trip west to Wal-Mart. After about three miles, we began to notice a scenery change - all the stores were either boarded up or gated. Great. This apparently isn’t one of Chicago’s finest neighborhoods.
We then waited at Wal-Mart for 45 minutes while they searched for my “lost” package. Eventually, to my amazement, they rolled it out in all of its seven-foot glory. (Remember, I brought only my Grand Am for transport.)
Tiny car + Huge box = Lots of improvising.
Attempt #1: Fold down the back seats, put it in the trunk and add a flag. Fail. My seats don’t fold.
Attempt #2: Open the box and put all of the separate pieces into the car. Nope. The futon was in one piece - one seven foot long piece.
Attempt #3: Tie it to the top of the car. Ding, ding, ding! I headed back into Wal-Mart for rope, while my friend and the Wal-Mart security guard hoisted the box onto my poor car.
Next came the hard part. We rolled all of the windows down and wrapped the rope around the box and car while climbing through my car’s windows like Luke and Bo Duke.
An hour and a half later, we were ready to roll. After a few pictures, we headed back at a “Driving Miss Daisy” pace with a parade of traffic following behind. The good news is that I earned cash back by purchasing the futon through WilliamPaid - bonus! Oh, and I’m told I’m now officially a Chicagoan - apparently everyone does this at least once. Have you ever had to get creative during your moving process?
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