This piece of furniture.
That entertainment center, clearly from an age when TVs were big and boxy and needed to have the whole backing of the TV section removed for wires and such, was with me for over twenty years ... from Greentree to Broad St to Walnut St to Harrisburg to three apartments in Chicago to the first home here in Ft. Lauderdale. It stopped being a place for a TV many years ago, and it's displayed stereos and photo albums and Batman collections and games and so on and so on ... lasting as long as it did despite being an assemble-your-own-furniture purchase from Hills Department store.
Alas and alack, there was no spot for it in the new cottage NOR in the new storage shed ... and so it went out on the front lawn, free to a good home.
But there's a happy ending. Within just a few moments of putting it out for the taking, the mother of the neighbor boy across the street (probably in elementary or middle school) requested it because he needed a "bookshelf". The sting of losing it was not felt so strongly knowing that it was going to be used ... for books even! ... and that it would live on with a purpose for another young'un.
Sauder entertainment center, circa mid-90's, may you bring as much happiness to others as you brought to me ... for you will surely be missed.
THEY ARE STILL MAKING THEM:
http://www.sauder.com/Categories/TV-Media-Furniture.aspx
A DISCUSSION OF ALAS AND ALACK:
http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4736
WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF FURNITURE YOU ASSEMBLE YOURSELF:
http://furniture.lovetoknow.com/inexpensive-unassembled-furniture
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