Unrectilinearization continues

[mangosteen]

We've been in the new place for a little over a week now, and we have started to reach the phase of unpacking where one starts moving all the big pieces of furniture into place, now that there are some holes in the previously unassailable mass of boxes.

This is also evidently the phase of the unpacking experience where one gives alternate-universe IKEA names to one's possessions, to wit:

The OHFUCK futon mattress,
The WATCHOUT glass-top table,
The SUNUVABITCH 6'x3' bookcase,
The OWOWFUCKINGOW folding table,
and, last but not least,
The GONNAHURTINTHEMORNING filing cabinet.

Comments

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

I am particularly fond of the Watchout glass top table and the Sunuvabitch bookcase. Having 3 bookcases that would not fit up the stairs to my 3rd floor apartment was just so much fun.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Last time I unpacked, I had a running commentary going, consisting of "All right, where the fuck am I going to put this? How about...Who the fuck put THAT there? Oh, right."

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Everybody in the house fled to let me arrange things to my liking...

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

You are at the stage that I normally quit at. If I have a place to sit comfortably and my bed, then the rest can remain in boxes for years.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

I've never forgotten getting my couch/bed stuck in a stairwell... willing to move neither forward nor back.

It was a long, dark teatime...

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

I was helping a lover move into a third-floor walkup one blizzardy February night. We'd come near the end of nearly 8 hours of moving things, and the still-able-bodied among us went back to look and see what was in the truck.

We got up on the loading deck, threw open the doors...and beheld the 8' x 1.5' x 3' solid wood credenza (with glass doors) we now had to get up three flights of narrow stairs without scratching the walls AT ALL.

My response? "Mother pus-bucket!!" (from Ghostbusters)

Fiften minutes of hysterical laughter later, we got the damn thing in the apartment.

[c1.livejournal.com]

You forget that you have the GLOM O' Stuff.
And the HEEPA things sitting right next to it.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

No, no. The HEPA was unpacked first, and is merrily whirring away in the bedroom.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

The GONNAHURTINTHEMORNING filing cabinet.

I helped my brother move two of those and I never knew the model name!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I still can't find one of my BOXOFGONEs...

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

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