I hit Costco this morning and came home with lots of stuff!
In our 2-story house with storage upstairs, and a dumb waiter to transport stuff between floors. . . How do you move it once you're upstairs?
This is how:
My laundry cart is perfect for this sort of transportation! 
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to help his mama out and move stuff from A to B.
Cute laundry cart! 
My kids are (sob) in their 50's and have households of their own!
The cart is so damned useful! I use it mostly for ferrying the dirty clothes from our bedroom into the laundry room. It saves me a lot of time and energy!
I thought I was reading a historical romance. 
How old is your house?
My house is a ranch. But I have a basement & I've been decluttering it & am amazed at how much I've collected over the years, lots of it brand new in the original package.
and there's a neighbor nearby that has one too.
Think of it as a mini-elevator. We can't ride in it, but our luggage, stuff from Costco and like that can.
It's very useful!
with the laundry shoot next to it. I was seven when I first saw all that & thought how cool! 
But the dumb waiter takes care of the other way!
Must have been very cool to see!
I'd love to have one of my own.
You say you built your own..Was it difficult?
"We were all still friends when it was done" Sounds like a good experience!..Thanks, California Peggy.
It should see us into next year!
difficult to manage lugging things up the stairs. My hubby and I gave up our big house several years ago when he became disabled. I miss my big gardens, but enjoy my apartments heated underground parking, elevators and full crew that handles all the snow shoveling and repairs. If we had a dumb waiter, we may have kept the house longer.