Furniture assembly instructions - a new feminist issue?

i canr wait

I don't remember any of the instructions showing anyone putting the furniture together. It just showed attaching board A to B in the first frame; attaching those two boards to board C in the second frame; and an explosion of all the rest of the boards in the third frame.

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I have several "put-together" pieces, as well, and the instructions were only drawings.

Once I did cheat. A large computer desk was just too heavy for me to handle alone. (That stuff weighs TONS!). There is a fellow here who has a business in which he will put together that furniture, swing sets, etc. He carries with him a case with all sorts of spare parts and screws, just in the event one is missing.

Angeline


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... left over from his previous assemblies

Evie

The fellow was probably in his mid to upper 20's. Quite an entrepreneurial spirit- he saw a niche, and took advantage of it.

Angeline


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... and also solves another problem. You can buy a grill at Home Depot that is assembled ... only then you need a vehicle or friend with one big enough to get it home. This guy putting it together on the deck sounds like a much better option!

Evie

...it usually comes without a couple things we take for granted here in the States, namely kitchen cabinets and closets. When we moved there in 1984, we had to buy all this stuff, assemble it and install it. AIR, there were instructions (in German, of course) with (very legible) illustrations - actually pictures of the assembly process. In fact, the pictures alone would have sufficed for me.

Everything went well - up to a point. The kitchen cabinets that hung on the walls actually hung and stayed hung (and were even level!). One of the bedroom closet units, however, was too tall for the sloping ceiling of the room we needed to install it in.

A German neighbor came to the rescue. He'd been there, done that, and knew exactly how to remove 3 centimeters (a little over an inch) from the base of this thing so that it fit properly in the space we had.

The good news: $1,200 in unreimbursed (and therefore tax deductible) moving expenses and the fact that I managed to use this stuff for 3 years and get $500 for it when we moved to Utah.

Ah, the joys of military service...

was the leading proponent of Nazi-ism in Sweden during the 30's and 40's. I think he shut up about it after 1945, but I may be wrong. You'd think the guy offering cheap furnishings delivered to your home would have been some kind of real socialist instead of the National-Socialist kind.

Rob Boyter

... "The People's Car" developed under Hitler. Cheap, efficient, dependable, and great gas mileage.

(I loved our VWs!}

Angeline


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