In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back later than I intended because of laundry. Only one washing machine working and someone else was using it. The call from my boss because she forgot to give me something yesterday. She said we could meet and I said the best place would be the senior's centre as I have to do something there. Then she said I will call you when I am almost there. Then for the 33rd and 3rd time I had to REMIND her that I don't have a cellphone. Little laughter then she said, "Oh, yeah. I forgot." Arrrgghh! Anyways met her then got on with other things. Busy places don't help when you are already backed up.
Checked out ottoman/foot stool. Would be great but it is too heavy for me to carry. I took the lid off of it and tried lifting the bottom and yeah. No soap.
Was it just a little 14"x14" cube, or is it much longer on one dimension than the other?
This is one that I couldn't just suggest you see if your boss would order for you online. Amazon has fallen quite a bit over the years and they don't police any of their 3rd party sellers. My brother bought a couple of the smaller cube ottomans with storage, and although I think they'd both be light enough for you to carry, they don't hold up well to any abuse. They were a lot less than $60 each, but $1 each would have been a waste of money.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back later than I intended because of laundry. Only one washing machine working and someone else was using it. The call from my boss because she forgot to give me something yesterday. She said we could meet and I said the best place would be the senior's centre as I have to do something there. Then she said I will call you when I am almost there. Then for the 33rd and 3rd time I had to REMIND her that I don't have a cellphone. Little laughter then she said, "Oh, yeah. I forgot." Arrrgghh! Anyways met her then got on with other things. Busy places don't help when you are already backed up.
Checked out ottoman/foot stool. Would be great but it is too heavy for me to carry. I took the lid off of it and tried lifting the bottom and yeah. No soap.
Was it just a little 14"x14" cube, or is it much longer on one dimension than the other?
This is one that I couldn't just suggest you see if your boss would order for you online. Amazon has fallen quite a bit over the years and they don't police any of their 3rd party sellers. My brother bought a couple of the smaller cube ottomans with storage, and although I think they'd both be light enough for you to carry, they don't hold up well to any abuse. They were a lot less than $60 each, but $1 each would have been a waste of money.
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Yeah, it is just a cube ottoman, so likely 14 by 14.
I'll keep looking and hope I can find something that I can carry. Maybe I should wait until Summer when the weather should have its head out of its azz.
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Maybe it's time to invest in a wagon?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe it's time to invest in a wagon?
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Trust me SIX that has crossed my mind especially when I bought this new monitor. If that nice young man hadn't helped me getting it back would have been fun.
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Clean up but first a nice hot shower. I can feel I over did it yesterday. Back sore.
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Yeah... You wouldn't even need anything all that big. Just an old Radio Flyer sized wagon should do what you need it to do, since whatever you're carrying home would still have to be carried into your place after you got it there.
Do you have stairs into the building or up to your unit, or is your place on the ground floor? Is there an elevator in your building right to your unit?
If it's all flat once you get home, you could carry heavier stuff into your place with it.
If you don't find them used today, a good one can be quite pricey. But it may be a better option for you.
I ordered a "beach wagon" for my aunt. It's nice, but it's not super sturdy on the sides, so anything larger and truly heavy would not be a good idea.
But the plastic wagon with a metal frame and inflatable tires like the one I have for my yard work would hold up forever and you could carry more in it than you'd ever need to. When I bought mine almost 15 years ago it was only around $80 USD. I'm seeing them at home depot and menards for around $150 USD today, not on sale. With all the massive abuse I've put on that thing including literally throwing over 1,000 bags of river rock into it and dragging them all over the place, there was only one time I thought I'd broke the damn thing. It turned out that I didn't break it, but all that abuse I showed it over the years actually loosened 2 nuts off of bolts. Once I found replacement nuts/bolts in my garage and tightened them up, it worked as if it were brand new.
A pricey endeavor, but I think especially as time goes on you're going to fall in love with that thing, especially if you get yourself a really nice one. It will offer you some independence, and it's hard to put a price on that.
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Oh wow... This one would probably work great for you and it's only $100 USD.
https://www.menards.com/main/outdoors/gardening/garden-landscaping-too
ls/wheelbarrows-carts/yardworks-reg-poly-utility-dump-cart-600-lb/600lbpolytw/p-1642874364084747-c-13262.htm
I doubt it's as good as mine is, but it looks exactly the same as mine except it's a different color. They don't carry mine anymore. I've never owned anything by YardWorx before, but I know they sell that brand at Sam's Club too. My old man bought a YardWorx lawnmower a few years ago and he loves it.
I'm thinking the inflatable tires would be nicer for you too because they're larger and they have a lot of GRIP on them. I could see you getting yourself stuck and having to go to the back and push the wheels over minor imperfections in the ground on your way home if you've got something heavy in there with a Radio Flyer style wagon, but with inflatable tires you probably wouldn't ever have any problems like that.
You'd just need to get yourself an air-pump too. They've got lots of options for that too. You'd probably only need a cheap plug-in-the-wall pump instead of investing in something portable. I doubt very much you'd ever get a flat tire while you were out and about. You'd just want to make sure every few months or at least once per year that the tires were pumped up and ready to go.
Even cooler is that this model is just like mine and it's also a sort of "dump truck". If you have something in there that is too heavy for you to remove from the wagon once you got it back home, It's got a handle/latch at the base in the front right above where the handle stem emerges from. (Look hard at the picture above where the handle comes out from and you can see this handle/latch in the above image). If you pull that and lift up just on the one side, the entire top plastic part lifts up and you can dump it out on your floor in your apartment.
In the case of the ottoman, you could have somebody put it in your wagon upside-down and when you got it home you could just dump it and it would probably roll over right onto its feet for you.
NOTE: If you got something like this, there is some assembly required. Perhaps the place you bought it for would assemble it for you so you could walk it straight home. Otherwise, it comes in a big heavy box and you'd need to buy another wagon to take your new wagon home.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah... You wouldn't even need anything all that big. Just an old Radio Flyer sized wagon should do what you need it to do, since whatever you're carrying home would still have to be carried into your place after you got it there.
Do you have stairs into the building or up to your unit, or is your place on the ground floor? Is there an elevator in your building right to your unit?
If it's all flat once you get home, you could carry heavier stuff into your place with it.
If you don't find them used today, a good one can be quite pricey. But it may be a better option for you.
I ordered a "beach wagon" for my aunt. It's nice, but it's not super sturdy on the sides, so anything larger and truly heavy would not be a good idea.
But the plastic wagon with a metal frame and inflatable tires like the one I have for my yard work would hold up forever and you could carry more in it than you'd ever need to. When I bought mine almost 15 years ago it was only around $80 USD. I'm seeing them at home depot and menards for around $150 USD today, not on sale. With all the massive abuse I've put on that thing including literally throwing over 1,000 bags of river rock into it and dragging them all over the place, there was only one time I thought I'd broke the damn thing. It turned out that I didn't break it, but all that abuse I showed it over the years actually loosened 2 nuts off of bolts. Once I found replacement nuts/bolts in my garage and tightened them up, it worked as if it were brand new.
A pricey endeavor, but I think especially as time goes on you're going to fall in love with that thing, especially if you get yourself a really nice one. It will offer you some independence, and it's hard to put a price on that.
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There are elevators which I use to get up and down to my apartment. I only walk 9 flights of stairs when I have to.
I will take a look in the local Walmart and a couple of other stores around my area tomorrow.
Ugh! I guess I am at that age that I have to think about things like this. >>shudder<<
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I see you point about inflatable tires and such.
But I like simple. Something I can do on my own without breaking the bank.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
There are elevators which I use to get up and down to my apartment. I only walk 9 flights of stairs when I have to.
I will take a look in the local Walmart and a couple of other stores around my area tomorrow.
Ugh! I guess I am at that age that I have to think about things like this. >>shudder<<
Meh... don't think about it as an age thing. It's an independence thing.
I don't know how far you have to go with one of these things, but even just a small cube that's well built is going to be fairly heavy.
I know you don't like asking people for help. I don't blame you. That shifts the power balance for sure. It's easy for me to say "hey, you should ask your boss for help", but I know why you don't. Unless my back is up against the wall, I don't like asking anyone for help with anything either.
If you're pretty sure that the pathway home is flat, you should be fine with a smaller wagon. Just keep in mind that if you don't have inflatable tires, you may have to get yourself "unstuck" on occasion if you're lugging some heavy stuff back home with you. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
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