Obviously I’m on the third floor of an apartment as the title says, once or twice every week I have to bring up groceries and every once in a while a heavier object like from Amazon or just junk lol. Do you have any ideas, I’ve thought about a pulley on the balcony but I can’t think of any way to mount it.
Any ideas to bring groceries or other lighter objects up to the third floor of an apartment building?
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A big backpack.
You’re going up yourself anyway. Just take the stress off of your arms and use a backpack.
I see a lot of people who live in apartments using those little fold up wagons, which you can purchase on Amazon
O lived in a third floor apt years ago and always had to lug up my groceries up the stairs. Only solution I found was to go shopping more often and buy less
Is there no elevator in the building ?
Not an idea from saving you from carrying, but to improve your capacity: using a large carabiner with a rubber side for carrying. Hook multiple bags and save your fingers from the dig.
Large costco bag to put big boxes into so you can carry them.
A large hockey-style or travel bag that has backpack straps.
A dolly or folding shopping cart. You pull it up one step at a time.
Amazon has something they call a stair climbing cart.
I have this: Foldable rolling cart
I have a metric crap ton of stairs leading up to my townhouse and this makes it so easy. I keep it in the pantry with my reusable grocery bags so I don’t forget either thing.
In Greece and Turkey, people often tie a rope to a basket, lower it down from the balcony or window, get their shopping delivered to the basket and pull it back up.
So you arent the first one to have this idea 😀
Adopt the European custom and buy a couple of things everyday.
If you did a pulley you could mount it with a clamp to the railing of your balcony. You’d just have to make sure a) nothing fell out ever and b) your neighbors didn’t loose their mind.
Possibly unpopular opinion: Just keep carrying them up by hand and give yourself more time to get accustomed and conditioned to do it*, even if you have to stop and put it down at each floor or even each landing at first. It’s VERY good exercise that your future self will thank you for. I lived in a third floor walkup in a hilly neighborhood for five years with no car. Walked to get groceries, walked home with them, walked up the stairs with them. It was pretty hard at first but noticeably easier after just a couple of months. By the time I’d been doing it two or three times a week for a couple of years, I hardly thought about it at all any more, except in the summer, when it was like climbing an invisible dry sauna because the stairwell wasn’t air conditioned. I didn’t think much about it any more. And my legs looked fantastic.
*Obvious exceptions for things that you can’t possibly carry because of the combined size and weight