Fun fact!

[dr_whom]

Fun fact!

A fully-assembled 80-inch Ikea BILLY bookcase does not fit in a 2001 Saturn L200.

On to plan B, I guess...?

Comments

[pastwatcher]

You've provided a vital service to society (of your LJ friends)! Hope you worked it out though.

[dr_whom]

Sadly, no resolution yet.... An unassembled one would cost twice as much and have to be assembled, but at least it would fit in my car. And I thought "find someone selling a bookcase on Craigslist" seemed like such a clever idea, too.

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

You could rent a larger car? Or get lots of bungee cords and jump ropes and lash it to the top of your car?

[midnight-sidhe.livejournal.com]

(By the way, what happened to poor Bookcase Billy?)

[dr_whom]

I think by the time I'm renting a car, it would definitely be cheaper to just go to Ikea and get a new bookcase.

The mental image of a bookcase lashed to the top of my car with bungee cords and jump ropes is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.

[dr_whom]

This!

In fact, it happened twice. The shelves collapsed and I tried putting them back on their pegs and putting the books back on them anyway.... and then just as I was putting the very last book back on they collapsed again in the exact same way. It was very memorably Sisyphean.

Anyway, I found someone selling a used Billy bookcase on Craigslist; and I measured the dimensions of the trunk of my car (including, you know, that portal from the trunk that appears if you fold down the back seat) and convinced myself it would fit; and I talked Meredith, bless her, into driving out to Wynnewood with me to help me move the thing. So we carried the bookcase down from the third floor to my car, where we determined that the portal from the trunk is about an inch too small, and then carried it back up to the third floor again, in the second memorably Sisyphean talk associated with this process.

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to comment that

(1) I disassembled and reassembled my Billy twice during moves across Berkeley and
(2) Congratulations on the new car!

But, from the above comments, I would guess that neither of these points is relevant.

So, instead, perhaps plan B involves cinderblocks and planks?

David S

[dr_whom]

Sadly, no new car.... I think Plan B will probably involve just going to Ikea and getting a new bookcase.

[leech.livejournal.com]

I once lashed a bed frame to the roof of a car using old pairs of pants. We were only driving across Cambridge, so it worked just fine.