I had my cabinets and some appliances shipped to a friend's house in Delaware to avoid the 900.00 in sales tax I would have had to pay here in MD. This felt morally ambiguous at first, but then I decided it's the same as shopping at the outlet malls in DE, and then I felt fine about it. And so then I spent that 900.00 on a trailer to pull the cabinets and appliances home with. My brother
volunteered was coerced into coming along to help, and off we went. The FedEx guy met us about an hour after we got there. We unloaded from his truck and off he went, leaving us to try to figure out how the heck to load all these things up onto my 6x12 trailer and the back of the minvan I borrowed to pull it with. Our faithful little Wrangler doesn't have the towing capacity to pull this thing fully loaded because of its short wheel base. We decided to un-palletize most of the cabinets and play a little Tetris with them. When we finally got all the cabinets and appliances onto the trailer and into the van, I graduall started raising the trailer tongue support and watched as the shocks of the van bottomed out. It was clear this was not going to work. We borrowed an F-150 from a friend out there, and pulled it home with that. This was what it looked like shortly before hitting the road.
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| 12ft high! |
It was a bit scary. And stupid. But hey, I was committed at this point; no turning back. Just to make it more interesting, the Bay Bridge had high-wind warnings, so we opted to go the long way north. Once we made it home, all the cabinets were unloaded into the garage and then I turned back around and drove the 3 hrs back to Delaware to return the truck and bring back the van. A LONG day.
