I declare...BANKRUPTCY!!!

[SpyOne]

Reminds me of Irv having to play Tetris with the customers' furniture. Glad you aren't the type to do that to them.

I had just moved into a new place and needed some new furniture when a house a couple of miles away sprouted furniture on its lawn. Stopped to ask, and the landlord said the previous tenant left the furniture behind and he was throwing it out.

The vehicles I had at the time were a 1985 Olds Delta 88 (lotsa passenger room but limited cargo space) and a 1989 Honda CRX (Surprisingly large cargo space, especially with the hatch open.

One trip with the dining room table, another with the chairs. Then there was a set of two bookshelves. Very tall bookshelves. Not a problem: new living room has high ceilings (from having been the garage). And of course I can fit 4-foot-wide shelves in the CRX.
Except the balance point of the shelves was past the edge of the car.

So I had to hold the front end down as I drove to prevent it tipping up and then sliding out of the car. And that was two trips because it was two book cases.

[Valentinian]

I got 18 cement cinder blocks and a bunch of lumber in the back of my Suzuki Swift. My husband made me promise never to do that again because he feared I'd bust the shocks. Pffffft, it was riding fine...

[Racket_Man]

I have moved and stuffed SSSOOOOO many things big and small on/in the various cars I have owned over the years --- couches, chairs, recliners, full sized dressers, tables, various major appliances, a king sized water bed with 12 drawer underdresser standard headboard and decking (did that in one trip) .

I almost wish I had taken pictures over the years so I would have proof.

[BPFH]

I have had several small cars. Fold down the back seat. Carefully arrange stuff. You can get a lot in one.

Oh, heck yes.

The entire contents of my dorm room in a 1991 Geo Metro. Or the water heater currently sitting in my basement in the back of a 2008 Chevy Aveo5. (Okay, I did have to tie down the hatchback for that one, but still...)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Yesterday I received a mailer from clearance swamp optical, telling me the last mailer they sent me, which I've long since discarded, had the wrong phone number for the local optometrist and listing the correct phone number.

Nice to see the optical operation is just as amateur-hour as the retail operation was.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I have had several small cars. Fold down the back seat. Carefully arrange stuff. You can get a lot in one.

Can confirm. I once witnessed a customer at the wholesale club fit several big patio furniture boxes into a small car (it's been more than 15 years now since it happened, so I can't remember the details), and if I hadn't been there to see it (and actually helped her get some of the boxes into the car), I wouldn't have believed it.

Hell, I even told her, after she pulled up to the curb with the car, "This is not going to fit in there." She looked me in the eye and said, "Yes it will, I took the first half of my order home earlier today."

After we were done, I stood back, shook my head, and apologized to her for doubting her car's storage capacity.

[dalesys]

...They had 3 full sized refrigerators on the roof and a washing machine sticking out of the trunk of a beat up civic. ...

"When I was in high school I saw a donkey loaded like this in National Geographic. This is my ass and I'll load it however I want!"

[Arcus]

And here we have this classic story from years gone by: Overloaded Car.

That reminds me of the car I saw pulled over on a freeway onramp (wish I had my camera for it.) They had 3 full sized refrigerators on the roof and a washing machine sticking out of the trunk of a beat up civic. The driver was arguing with one officer while another officer was taking pictures of the car. I could hear the guy screaming that they had no right to stop him driving with his car loaded like that.

[Bandit]

Back in the day, I had an apartment by a major mall that had a Snears Clearance Center.

When I was feeling really bored, I'd walk over to the gas station beside it for a drink and just watch people try to load the cheap furniture into their cars by themselves.

The best were the ones who had a mattress and box spring, put it on the roof and securely tied it down going through the car.

All was good until they realized that they had managed to tie the car doors shut as they had just rolled down the windows.

Most would swear, undo everything, and then redo it with the doors open.

Others would just do a Dukes of Hazzard and climb in through the rolled down windows and drive away.

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[Ironclad Alibi]

I have had several small cars. Fold down the back seat. Carefully arrange stuff. You can get a lot in one.

However, when I bought my house, I also bought an '71 F250. I am pretty sure that I would not have gotten all 36, 60LBS bags of concrete home, in one trip, in an '89 Ford Festiva.

And here we have this classic story from years gone by: Overloaded Car.

[Nunavut Pants]

I have had several small cars.

Back seat? What's that??



(Yes, the JDM cars had one, but mine was a US-market car.)

[csquared]

I have had several small cars. Fold down the back seat. Carefully arrange stuff. You can get a lot in one.

However, when I bought my house, I also bought an '71 F250. I am pretty sure that I would not have gotten all 36, 60LBS bags of concrete home, in one trip, in an '89 Ford Festiva.

[greek_jester]

I am a fan of small cars. I have, as a result, managed to carry an awful lot of stuff that most people didn't think would fit.

In my case it was a 6 seater table plus 4 dining chairs. That raised a few eyebrows at the tip! Sadly they couldn't sell the chairs as they were covered and the previous owner removed the fire labels so they had to be scrapped, but the table was hardwood and was sold on.

[Nunavut Pants]

I am a fan of small cars. I have, as a result, managed to carry an awful lot of stuff that most people didn't think would fit. Particularly into my old Honda CRX. (Think 80s-vintage Civic hatchback with the back seat area chopped out and the car shortened by that much.)

I moved a steamer trunk type container for a friend who was moving; the van he had borrowed couldn't fit it but my CRX could!
I moved a whole antique vanity desk/mirror assembly, plus weekend getaway luggage, plus my (now-) wife and myself. The guy at the antique shop said, "I'll wait until you pull your truck around." No, my truck is right there. That little tiny hatch-back? Yeah, that one. I had to take the luggage out and re-pack it around the desk, but by gum it fit!
On a couple of occasions, we moved four dozen helium balloons. OK, those weren't inside the car, they were actually out the sunroof. I told people we were trying to get to Oz...

[greek_jester]

I have discovered over the last 6 months of moving everything out of my house to my late mum's bungalow that a Toyota Yaris with the back seats down can hold a remarkable amount of stuff. Still going to need someone with a van for the bookcase, beds and settee, though...