Folding Shelves Come to Save Your Moving Day
April 12, 2013
As we make our way through April and towards May, we are quickly approaching the end of the school year for high school and college students. With the end of the school year comes a whole lot of moving. High school seniors are getting ready to move to college. College underclassmen are moving back home for the summer or into new dorms / apartments. College seniors moving out and on to the real world for the first time. All of that moving is a huge task, so I would recommend you make it easy on yourself in the future and use folding shelves to furnish your next abode.
When most people hear the term “folding furniture” they picture something that is disposable, cheap – basically the kind of furniture that really makes you feel like you are living a transient lifestyle. However, you’ll be astonished to see the amount of high-quality furniture now has the “fold-down” feature built-in.
I’ll tell you I was mighty impressed by all the different types of folding shelves.
“Moving Day” Makes Folding Shelves Mandatory
For a few years I lived in Boston, Massachusetts. For those that are familiar with the area, they will know it is sometimes called the nation’s largest “College Town”. Most leases are one year and typically signed at the beginning of the school year. So all of these students move at pretty much the exact same time, August 31st and September 1st . This pair of days has become notorious as “Moving Day”. It’s a bit like a giant city-wide game of musical-chairs.
Having survived three of these ordeals, I learned to go with folding furniture after one miserable moving experience. The first move an hour was spent trying to lug a giant plywood bookcase down the narrow stairwell of my 4-story walk up. I got about halfway down the stairwell. After much maneuvering, I was left to watch in horror as the plywood contraption crumbled at its seams. It seems my 90 dollar Anatomy and Social Geography books had taken their toll.
After this, I decided to go with a folding bookshelf to store my books. On my next move, getting it down the stairs was a breeze. Maybe more importantly, getting the folding shelves up the stairs of my next apartment was easy.