I have this new stool and am movin on up.
It seems with senior height shrinkage, I can never reach a cup.
In the past, to remove a Valance ,I reached way up in the air
these days I stand on tip toes and feel utter despair.
Not fair! Not Fair! I can't reach up there,
and if I call Bob, he acts like a bear
even though his height even with shrinking, still allows him to reach there.
While watching the Tech doing the Carotid Ultra Sound, I realized there was a stool like this one sitting in the corner. I stood up and easily stepped up on it. The next week I said to the surgeon, I want that laptop desk you are using. She said they aren't expensive, I ordered it from Amazon.
Really? I said What about the step stool? Yes, got it there to.
I came home and now I have my own stool. Which means I can now reach to top of the fridge to clean it and can no longer ask The Bear to do it for me. I can take down my own curtains and rehang them and most of all I can clean the NOOK MIRROR without fear of falling to my death.
I was 48 and spry and 2 inches taller when I paid someone to put in that mirror.
I might have 87 million posts about the NOOK if you need to know.
Not fair! Not Fair! I can't reach up there,
and if I call Bob, he acts like a bear
even though his height even with shrinking, still allows him to reach there.
While watching the Tech doing the Carotid Ultra Sound, I realized there was a stool like this one sitting in the corner. I stood up and easily stepped up on it. The next week I said to the surgeon, I want that laptop desk you are using. She said they aren't expensive, I ordered it from Amazon.
Really? I said What about the step stool? Yes, got it there to.
I came home and now I have my own stool. Which means I can now reach to top of the fridge to clean it and can no longer ask The Bear to do it for me. I can take down my own curtains and rehang them and most of all I can clean the NOOK MIRROR without fear of falling to my death.
I was 48 and spry and 2 inches taller when I paid someone to put in that mirror.
I might have 87 million posts about the NOOK if you need to know.
PS UPDATE: I set this post on auto post 3 days ago and Saturday AM I stood on my stool and when I saw the TOP OF THE FRIDGE I nearly screamed. Greasy dirt. I had to use Murphy's soap, and I am sure that is why MURPHY visited and I STILL COULD NOT REACH the back 6 inches or the cabinet over it.
I called Bobby Bear and he did not act like a bear and used his 5 inches taller than me height and arms length that is 5 inches longer to clean it for me. HE LOVED THE STOOL. I told him it is all his and he can use it anywhere in the house I CAN"T REACH
I called Bobby Bear and he did not act like a bear and used his 5 inches taller than me height and arms length that is 5 inches longer to clean it for me. HE LOVED THE STOOL. I told him it is all his and he can use it anywhere in the house I CAN"T REACH
19 comments:
You have no idea how much I am laughing and how tickled I am! You just have a way of writing things...I love the stool, so glad you got it. We are a pair. With my knee, I could never step up on it; too high. I have a tiny stool, 3 inches! Of course it is not much good for almost anything, but it gets me up into the house. I also have a little foldable stool behind the bathroom door that I put each foot up on to dry them after showers. I have shrunk 4'. Cannot reach anything that I used to. This does look like the stool in doctor's offices. Now I want to see your laptop desk. I have gone through several, and have my favorite now. $11.00 at Hobby Lobby, and pretty.
You are so funny!!! Bobby Bear!!
I have stools all over the place! I still have a small wooden stool that Amber and Benjamin used in teh bathroom when they were little. They are 34 and 31 now. Plus I have a step ladder I keep in the pantry and a red two step wooden stool in the kitchen. I can't reach much at all anymore.
Hari OM
I have a two-step ladder in my kitchen - that's how short I am. Started out that way and it never changed! YAM xx
That's a cool stool. I could use one myself. I have to stand on tip toe to reach the chain on my ceiling fan. The one for the light is long but the one for the fan is short and I can barely reach it with my right hand. Why you say with my right hand? Because if I try with my left I can't reach it at all. Because of my scoliosis my left side won't reach up as high as my right.
I hope you show your laptop desk.
Hello, I would love that stool too. What a great purchase.
Bobby Bear is a cute nickname. Happy July, have a great day and new week!
I do like that stool. But I would need higher..even on it I would not be able to see top of fridge.
We bought a step ladder similar to yours, and it's one of the best investments we've done.
Whose artery is being checked? So how tall are you I imagine you to be about 5'8" for some reason. I am SHORT.
That is a nice and safe stool.
I love Murphy Oil.
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I am so Vertically Challenged that I need a stool for everything.
Whoever built this house was very tall. All my cupboards are hard to reach.
I have a 2 step stool in the kitchen and use it often. Now that I have lost weight my knee doesn't hurt so much and I can actually step up and down...which was a real problem before.
We have a very high California Queen bed and I have a little stool that my mother in law needlepointed the top .
(Really bad sentence construction..haha)
I guess I may take a picture and post it.
It would make an odd post...(:0)
You know, I've idly wondered about Bob's height. That's a good-looking stool, for sure! Ours is a fold-up 2-story affair, but that's as high as I'm comfortable with. Shoot. 10 years ago I used to scamper up ladders, but even this kitchen stool makes me feel uneasy. What's up with THAT?
Oops, I don't know where my brain is today!
Our bed is a California King not Queen...
I also posted on my blog about the step stool that is really needlepointed...
Guess I need another cup of coffee...
I am tall and STILL have a step stool in my kitchen for those hard to reach places :-)
That looks like a handy dandy stool. Since I am severely vertically challenged I need a stool in every room.
AGE SUCKS....haha....I have a stool I use but that one looks easy and chances of falling is not as bad as it would be from a chair. I remember that I used to climb up on the sink to clean the tops of the lights, I would jump right down. No biggie but now, things have changed. Glad you will be safe and dong' have to ask for help.
Loved your post. It sounded like me. Except I just don't look on top of the fridge. That sure is a handy stool for Bobby Bear to do the cleaning. Good move.
That stool looks brilliant. I have a light foldable (aluminium) step ladder (with a 'handle' on top) which I've had ever since I first moved away from home. I don't dare stand on the top of it but feel secure with the two lower steps. Very helpful to me when I want to reach. In the kitchen, for reaching the top shelves in my kitchen cupboards, I have a broad low wooden stool (and can hold on to the counter to get up/down). Fortunately my cupboards go all the way up to the ceiling so I don't have to clean on top of them (unlike my previous apartment). I only put light tings on the top shelves.
Darn, now you tell me that we are shrinking as we age, Sandra 😀 Yes, sadly I already knew that and have been using a step stool to reach into upper cabinets and to clean the fridge top.Yours looks very sturdy with the top handle. Mine is a two step model with no top support...I might want to rethink that.
That's a great stool. Just like the doctor's offices.
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