Beware of Costco

Costco is a dangerous place.

I stopped by there yesterday to pick up some surge protector power strips and decided to take a look around, "just to see." We have been in need of something for clothing storage and they had a nice dresser with a mirror attached. I don't really care about the mirror, but the dresser could be very useful. Our closets here are about 1/10th the size of the closets in our Sahuarita home. My clothes are falling off the shelves. It just so happens Costco was trying to clear out the furniture to bring in the Christmas stuff. The dresser was marked down almost 40% from its original price. I made a rather hasty decision and bought it.

The only issue was my Saturn parked in front of the store wasn't quite big enough to fit the dresser. In fact, I wasn't sure it could fit in the van. The Costco people suggested renting a truck from the Lowes close by. The not so friendly Lowes people informed me you actually had to buy something from their store to rent their truck. Dangit! I headed home, helped the kids to bed, and headed back to Costco with the van. Turns out the thing wouldn't fit in the van very well either. The Costco dude helped me out and we laid it on its back. It fit. I just hoped nothing was broken in the process.

At home there was a new challenge waiting. Getting it inside. I called a friend from the ward (hopefully still a friend after this). He came over with his wife and we hauled the thing into the house. It was heavy and much larger in the room than it looked in the big warehouse, but Genni likes it and that is important.

The moral of the story (and one you would think I would have learned before): Beware of checking things out in Costco "just to see."