And in line with moving we decided to buy a new couch, which if you have seen our old couch you will know that this is long overdue!!

So on Sunday night, after a lot of surfing and hunting on trade me, we put a bid on a 3 seater couch. We sat there watching the minutes tick by as the auction closed and yes we won the auction. So at 6.00pm that night we were off hiring a trailer to go and pick up our newly purchased couch.

So we got the couch home (it was perfect for what we need) and decided that as the apartment was in a huge mess with boxes and packing stuff everywhere we decided to put it in our storage area for the week so that we didn’t have to move it more than once.

This is where the trouble started…..

No matter what we did we couldn’t get the couch into the storage locker. This got us a little worried as the storage lockers are about the same size as the lifts!!!! So after a bit of measuring and talking to the building manager we did in fact establish the fact that the couch would not fit into the lift!!!! Bugger!!!

So the next solution was could we lift it up the stairs??? Well we measured the stairs and decided that even if we could lift it up the 9 or so flights of stairs it wouldn’t actually fit around the turns!!! Again Bugger!!!

So the only option left was to put it back on Trade me….. so we put it up at 8.30 that night and buy 8.20 the next morning it was sold!!! Yay!!

But we are now back on the hunt for a new (but smaller) couch!!!