You've heard it said...

...necessity is the mother of invention?

You remember this? Today I decided to finish this project.
This is what I started with. If you so choose you may check out the reflective bike stickers and remnants of click-your-seat-belt stickers I foolishly added when I was a wee one. (Actually I was probably old enough to know better but sad to say, I did lots of dumb things back then.) It also had those nice brassy looking hardware.
Seeing as I had already painted the drawers a few weeks back all I had to do today was haul that puppy outside. Oh yeh, I think I had kind of forgotten that part. It wasn't too difficult to get it to the stairs but it didn't take me too long to figure out I would probably do more damage than good if I tried to get it down the stairs by bumping it along. For 2 seconds I considered calling Steve to see if he could stop by at home to give me a hand. I quickly dismissed it as a waste of his time. For another .5 of a second I considered approaching the next guy to pass the house on the sidewalk out front for help. I quickly dismissed it as foolish. So I did what I still think was my only other option. Out of necessity I invented myself a ramp. Of a sort.

I went outside and found a piece of plywood that was guaranteed to fit under the dresser. I moved the dresser back 8 feet (the plywood was a little long) slid the plywood into place and then slid the dresser onto the plywood.

You with me? I was pretty tickled with the whole business.

And then Sam chronicled this.

Please excuse my painting shorts. I think they're celebrating their 16th birthday this summer.

Let me tell you, that dresser slid down slick as... well I was going to say snot. Is that gross? Because I just said it. Please excuse me but that ramp did work swell.

And tonight, my incredibly strong husband carried it right back into the house (all by himself!)where I reinstalled the drawers.

I'm a happy lady. I'm sure glad we didn't go spend good money on a new dresser.