Today I am thankful for yard sales. Recycling at it's finest. Last weekend we were able to sell some stuff we didn't use, and today we went and bought things we needed at a greatly reduced price.
My favorite find for the day? A practically pristine King size mattress, with box springs, and frame... all for the low, low price of $10. When we found it we were in our Fiat so of course we thought about strapping everything to the roof (for like a second - cause it would be funny to see).
So we went back home, got the truck and went back to pick up the mattress set. Have you ever tried fitting 2 twin box springs and a king sized mattress into a truck with a topper? It doesn't work. So we had to strap the mattress to the roof of the topper. Unfortunately, we were short on bungees and tie downs so we pieced together 3 small ones to make one large enough to reach across the mattress and the top of our truck. The place where we found the mattress was only 1.5 miles or so from our house and the speed limit was never over 40mph so we figured we'd be ok.
WRONG!
About half way there, the middle bungee snapped and the mattress skittered off the back of the truck in the middle of a 4-lane road. Luckily there was no one right behind us and we were able to stop the truck and get the mattress out of the road before someone ran over it. We were eventually able to get everything home but needless to say, our mattress is no longer practically pristine. Now it has scuffs and rips that I will be sewing closed tonight after the kids are in bed. But hey, it's all good. We only paid $10 for it.
Sounds like something that would happen to us! Glad you were able to finally get it home in one piece!
ReplyDelete