One of my goals for the summer was to build shelves - shelves in the kitchen, shelves over my desk and book shelves for my bedroom....well, none of them were actually built. With just 8 days before I move in to my new apartment, and one roommate already moved in, I decided to just bite the bullet and buy a shelf for the kitchen. Without some kind of shelf, we would have small kitchen appliances all over the counter tops and pots and pans overflowing from their respective cabinet.

I guess I really just wasn't meant to have this shelf because before I could even get it out of the store, I had already forgotten to use my 20% off coupon. I could barely lift the box into my cart - a man who worked at bed, bath and beyond had to help me. At my apartment, my roommate and I spread out the pieces all over the floor.

Adjustable shelves are supposed to be a good thing, but the way they made these shelves adjustable made it painful to put them together. We attached the plastic clips where we wanted the shelves to rest, but they kept falling off. Of the few clips that would stay on, only one side of one of the shelves was able to slide on top of it and lock into place. After two hours of struggling with it, we moved on to other projects, and when I came over a week later, I returned it to the store in pieces. It may be a bad product, but at least customer service took it back with no complaints!

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