Mexanese Mumbo Jumbo

About 8 months, I bought an Ikea Lack shelf to put up in my bedroom. Being 5' nothing, a good place to store stuff is up. I also needed it to be high enough the cat couldn't reach it (though it didn't stop him from trying).

The sis' boyfriend was willing to help me put the shelf up, I just needed to go get the hardware. Procrastination got the better of me, of course, so 8 months went by and I finally made it to Homedepot. I found a lovely lady to help me and the first question she asked - how many screws do you need? Uh.... I had no idea! I hadn't bothered to look! I took a random guess and said 8. Next question - do you need drywall or stud screws? Crap, 0 for 2. Again, I winged it, and decided 4 of each, just in case.

By this time my sister & her bf had moved into a place in Richmond, so I enlisted Wayne's help to put the shelf up. First thing he says when he looks at the # of screws I bought and the instructions for putting up the shelf - soooo...you didn't buy enough screws. Then he started to drill the holes into the wall - none of them hit a stud.

Not only did I not buy enough screws, I also didn't buy enough of the right type of screws.

Note to self: Before going to Homedepot, check how many screws you actually need and check to see if the screws will actually hit studs or not.

Although, turns out I wasn't the only one to struggle with this mini project. Wayne's math was a bit off so he ended up having to put the shelf up twice, and it still not centered.