On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 8:43:23 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
DerbyDad03 writes:

My daughter bought one of those flat-pack WallyWorld book cases for her dorm
room. I assembled it and stood it against wall when she first moved in.

2 years later she got an off-campus apartment. Now, I'm pretty good at
packing my trailer to keep the contents safe. God knows I've done it
enough times. We loaded everything in, strapped it all down and off we
went.

I drove 3 miles to her apartment, opened the trailer, took out the
pieces of the busted up book case and put them by the dumpster. It sure
doesn't take stress much to blow those fasteners right out of the
fiber board. A few bumps and it was toast.

I would have disassembled it for transport, myself.

Feel free, but not me.

Since disassembly requires reassembly, had I know it was going to fall
apart I would have left it in the dorm room and spent the $28 it would
have cost for a new one, all boxed up nice and neat and easy to carry.
Which, BTW, I ended up doing anyway.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/21997602

Easier transport, no disassembly effort (think about the cardboard back
with the 400 tiny nails holding it on), time saved, etc. If you've ever
moved a college student out of dorm room at the end of a semester, you know
that the last thing you want to do is waste time taking apart a cheap bookcase, packing it all up, carrying the pieces out and in, etc. No
thanks! Not for $28.