How not to furnish one's living room, step by step.
1) Decide your TV stand is far too dangerous because your child is just starting to crawl, and therefore is likely to stick his fingers inside the DVD player and throw DVDs all over the floor.
2) Ignore the fact that you also have two freestanding bookshelves in your living room.
3) Claim TV stand WITH DOORS from nice Freecycler.
4) Pick up TV stand WITH DOORS and decide it needs sanding down.
5) Try in vain to obtain sanding machine from Freecycle.
6) Successfully borrow friend's sander.
7) Realise friend's sander needs sanding pads.
8) Google sanding pads.
9) Drive to local hardware shop, which does not stock correct sanding pads.
10) Drive to another local hardware shop, which also does not stock correct sanding pads, but employs a creative man who sells you two long strips of sandpaper instead.
11) Arrive home. Stick sandpaper in sander.
12) Attempt sanding. Lose interest.
13) Decide TV stand WITH DOORS is OK as it is; move into living room.
14) Realise the shelf inside TV stand WITH DOORS is broken.
15) Sulk while wife fixes shelf.
16) Sulk again, upon realising DVD player is TOO BIG for shelf.
17) Move TV stand WITH DOORS into hallway while wife re-assembles original TV/DVD/Freesat set up.
18) Stick TV stand WITH DOORS on Freecycle. Decide no one will want it.
19) Buy Christmas tree.
20) Decide TV stand WITH DOORS will make an excellent Christmas tree holder.
21) Receive emails from Freecyclers wanting TV stand WITH DOORS.
22) Give up. Blog.