Contact Paper, Spray Paint, and Life Lessons
July 31, 2006
Life lessons I learned yesterday:
1. Don’t try to cover an ugly bookcase with contact paper.
2. Don’t buy three cans of spray paint at when you need five.
3. Don’t go back to Wal-Mart an hour later to buy spray paint cans number four and five and stand in the line next to the cashier that checked your cans number one, two, and three. This is especially not recommended when he knows your roommate from high school, unless you want to provide him with enough amusement to last a week.
Alicia and I now have lost three Wal-Mart-trips worth of gas from our gas tank, and have gained two gorgeous black bookcases for our dorm room.
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James | July 31, 2006 at 6:21 pm
It took you 5 cans of spray paint? How big are these book cases? And how thick is your paint?
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aniruhama | July 31, 2006 at 11:26 pm
One’s taller than I am. The other one’s a short one (three shelves). The laminated one (the tall one) took a lot, especially, since we had to cover up its ugliness.
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Ben | March 15, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I have sometimes bought 3 cans of spraypaint when I really needed 11, and ended up making three more trips back to the hardware store.