The last few days have been interesting. I ordered a cabinet to put in my bathroom. One of those that you have to put tohether. I have done plenty of these but someone was supposed to help me with it. After waiting over 3 weeks for that help I couldn’t stand it anymore and got it out of the box. Checked that all parts and screws etc were there and sat it in a corner.
A few days ago another week have passed and I just couldn’t stand it anymore and decided to tackle it myself. My 83 year old body was not so happy but I thought it would hbe good exercise.
I gathered all my tools and picked up the directions. Interesting.. not text and pictures just pictures. Lots of arrows that there was no ecplanation of why they were there. But I was ready. Time to get going.
Starting out I laid all the pieces out by numbers and picked the ones I needed to start with. No problem I understood what to do and began to build. After completing two halves of of the cabinet I was ready to stack one on top of the other. This was when I discovered what the arrows were about. Some pieces were facing forward and some were the back.
Taking the pieces apart (which took several hours) I now began to put them together correctly. Now that I had everything the right way around I was ready to put the two pieces together.
The top piece was too heavy for me to lift on top of the other piece I laid them both on the floor. This was going to do it. This is when I found out that since the pieces were particle board some places did not want to close tight or stay where they were supposed to. They were too loose.
Time to save the day with you know what. I put it generously over the parts and finally got it together well. Standing it up it looked great but I discovered that some glue on the bottom part had adhered to the bottom and part of it was stuck to the carpet. Carefully I got it free and hooray it worked.
The only problem now was the glue on my hands. I had never looked up how to get it off so decided to check my phone for instructions. Thats when I discovered that I couldn’t open my phone because it has a fingerprint lock on it and couldn’t recognize my print. I filed most of it off my thumb with a nail file.
The cabinet is now mostly done and when finished completely I will post a picture. After at least an hour I managed to get the glue off my finger get into my phone and find out that nail polish remover does a decent job of getting the glue off
Now I can take a deep breath and always wait for help.
worry-less-journey 