When the charity thrift store refused to pick up the old wooden desks that I wanted to get rid of I told my wife that I was going to just break them up and put them in a pile in the back yard and have a nice little bonfire. Naturally she told me that would be a very silly thing to do, and suggested that I figure out a way to use them as garage cabinets. Well, to be perfectly honest I just couldn’t see how I could utilize them until my wife came out into the garage herself and asked me to help move the desks.
We scooted one of them flush up against the wall, and then my wife asked me to help her lift the other desk and put it on top of the first one. I’m sure I looked at her like she was completely crazy because she started laughing at me and said “trust me, I know what I’m doing.” Shaking my head and rolling my eyes, I helped her lift that big old desk up and put it on top of the first one. They were a perfect fit. and then I could see what her plan was – to use the two desks together as if they were meant to be that way, and use them as one large unit of shelves and drawers. She suggested that we could remove the drawers and use the spaces inside as cubby holes, or leave the drawers in and just use them as drawers, but put labels on them so we know what is in them.
Well, they really are not what I was hoping to put in that spot, but I’ll give them a try for a while and see if I can adapt to using them. I hate to admit to my wife that I was reluctant to break up the desks in the first place; it just seems like such a waste when they have some useful life left in them.