Monday, April 8, 2013

My first post in this blog

I'm not one to write reviews typically. But this is literally one of the best items I ever purchased. We live on the 3rd floor of an apartment building that has an elevator but our car is parked in the parking garage which seems like MILES away when you are hauling heavy groceries to the house. This cart takes care of all the agony of that.

I also use it to take 3 large loads of laundry at a time - plus detergent bottles - to the laundry room (which also seems like MILES away when you have to carry a sack of laundry over your back or - even worse - have some laundry basket digging into your hip). I also don't have to worry about anyone SEEING my dirty laundry as the cart is fully enclosed in a sturdy fabric and has a velcro-enclosed flap on top to completely cover up what's inside.

I've also used the flap to protect my dry clothes on a rainy day as I've come back from the laundry room. I was soaked, but my clothes were still dry and clean. The flap is made of the same fabric so if you don't want to use it, you can just leave it hanging inside or outside the cart with no worries of it getting squished or ruined (even when the cart is folded up the fabric top is fine).

The wheels make for easy movement unless you have a particularly heavy load of groceries when it gets to be hard to maneuver. I am still giving it 5 stars though because even a grocery cart is hard to maneuver when it's full of heavy groceries.

The absolute BEST part about the VersaCart though, is the fact that it folds up to the size of a folded-up stroller. Unlike the metal carts (which have snagged my clothes by the way and do not fold up anywhere near as small as this one), you can store it in the hall closet in a space smaller than a vacuum. This was imperitive for us as we live in a small apartment with very little storage room.

I now keep the VersaCart in the trunk of my car for those spontaneous grocery trips and it's very easy to handle and get open and closed. It's lightweight too so I think even the elderly could handle it.

In fact, the ederly people in my complex (there are a lot of them) are all very jealous of my cart and many of them have asked what brand it is, etc. because they want one for themselves. A few people even stopped me when I took it to the swap meet and told me what a great idea and what a nice looking cart it is. It was great there too as it's much easier than carrying around your purchases all day. And my items were out of view and out of the hot sun as they were inside with the fabric top covering it. I highly recommend this cart to anyone and I think there are many uses for it. We just used it yesterday to take our recycling down to the car!

I'm only 35 but I have a bad back already so I have to be careful about carrying heavy stuff. So I highly recommend it for anyone who shouldn't carry heavy items, needs to travel far to the car, or anyone who wants to free up their hands more when they are doing chores.

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