We sold our Ikea Billy Bookcase and TV stand to a young couple from Queens with two kids and a baby on the way. Ben and I helped the husband load their new belongings into their van, happy to know our stuff was going to a good home.
The TV stand, which amazingly survived two moves.
The bookcase, which also survived two moves, was more than just a bookcase. It was an "everything-case". Since we only had eight tiny cabinets in the kitchen to hold all cookware and food, the bookcase caught the overflow. Our bookcase held (in alphabetical order): bitters, board games, books, bourbon, cameras, checkbooks, DVDs, headphones, picture albums, umbrellas, wrapping paper, and anything else without a real home.
How those pressed wood shelves never bowed or broke is beyond me... must be the Dutch engineering.
I almost forgot! We had one piece of furniture for sale for $0 (that's right, free!), but it never sold. Not that it would have survived a move of any kind. I lovingly present... our dresser.
Our infamous dresser. It balanced precariously on a stack of books and always leaned a little to the right. The base of the drawers fell out every time we laid something, like a sock or a pair of underwear, in them. The front of the bottom left drawer popped off whenever we touched it, which always raised Ben's blood pressure. Wherever the dresser sat is where it stayed.
Don't let the dresser's sleek facade fool you... this puppy was a ticking time bomb and could have collapsed or imploded at any given moment.
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