A Cardboard Nightstand

There's a scene in The Producers where Max Bialystock, the once-rich and successful theatrical lead, is bemoaning his current state of financial flaccidity. "I used to wear four-hundred-dollar suits!" he wails, "and now look at me - I'm wearing a cardboard belt!" I thought of this the other night as I tried putting a lamp, a clock, a telephone, a tissue box and my glasses on top of a cardboard box that's approximately 12" by 18" next to our bed which is now serving as my nightstand.

It's like this. Since the house already looks like a "Before" picture used by Habitat for Humanity, we thought it made sense to have the wood floors on the bedroom level refinished. You know - mightaswell. That meant emptying all the bedrooms, and the floors of each closet. We've basically been living out of boxes anyway, so no biggie. The problem, though, was where to put everything we were packing up and had to move out. The trailer out front was filled to the max, the attic was off-limits because they're still doing some work up there and need the space, the downstairs rooms will have to be emptied eventually so those floors can be done, the garage is ready to explode, the basement remains under construction. so basically we're running out of options.

Invasion of the pod, people. The only course of action was to rent a POD and put it on the front lawn next to the trailer. Yes, we'd look like a storage yard, but the lawn already looks like it's been strafed by enemy aircraft so on Monday morning, October 12th the POD arrives, and the contractor crew and I move all we can into it and the darn thing actually holds all the stuff we need to put away for a few weeks. Including extraneous furniture, which means everything but our bed. And that brings me to my cardboard nightstand.

It's not just a house, it's an adventure.

More news that Monday is the kitchen floor tile starts going in and looks great. Also, we finally get heat, at least in the bedrooms from the new furnace in the attic. Someday when the other new furnace in the basement gets hooked up we'll have heat in the entire house. As the weather is changing pretty quickly we could use it.