Have you ever thought to yourself, “you know, what I really need right here is a little dresser?” And then, the very next day, you were driving through your neighborhood, and you saw the perfect thing, sitting at the curb? ME TOO! I’d been wishing I had a low piece with drawers for the study during my massive organizational overhaul (I know, I do this way too much) and then, on my way home from dropping Ian off at preschool, THERE IT WAS. It’s painted black, and where the paint is distressed you can tell it used to be red. It was even remarkably clean for something that was sitting out by the street.

I actually made a fool of myself trying to figure out whether I could get it into the car by myself. (NO WAY.) For one thing, I’d forgotten how much stuff I had in the trunk. For another, if I could have put the back seat down it MIGHT have fit, but we’re talking car seats here, people, so it was a no go.

Mind you, my brother would have known instantly that it was never gonna fit. I’ve seen him putting leftovers away. He has this spatial awareness thing at “knack” level. Seriously, invite him over to load your dishwasher sometime.

So, when I got tired of waving drivers around me, I threw the drawers in the back, since I knew I’d have to get the stroller out of the baby’s car seat once he was sitting in it, and this way I was spared the embarrassment of asking the baby to hold one of the drawers on his way home. Then, I went and found some help.

This is how I know Michael really loves me… he puts up with things like this. We had to wave a lot more cars around us while we were busy putting it on the roof rack (I don’t know what was up with all the traffic in the middle of a Tuesday. Where do you think they were all going? The mind boggles.) and then we fled the scene. We even took an alternate route home so none of our gawkers would follow us.

It really was quite a remarkable find… not only was it my favorite price (FREE) it tidies the room right up, because everything fits in it “just so.”