Three hours to get my fort to stop collapsing on my face

Okay so I've been building blanket forts since I was a kid, you'd think I'd have this down by now. But last Saturday I decided to build a proper reading fort in my living room with two chairs and a couch as anchors. Every time I'd lean back to grab my book, the whole middle section would sag and drop the blanket right on my head. I tried tucking corners, adding weights, stacking pillows, all the usual tricks. Nothing held for more than ten minutes. Finally I grabbed a folding laundry rack from the closet and wedged it in the middle as a center post, then draped one blanket over the top and another one as a skirt. That thing held steady for almost two hours while I finished my book. Why did it take me 3 hours of frustration to think of something that took 30 seconds to set up? Has anyone else had a better center support hack than the laundry rack trick?

1 comments

Log in to join the discussion

Log In

1 Comment

faith_thomas2d ago

The real problem is that chairs and a couch are terrible anchors because they slide apart on smooth floors. A laundry rack works because it pushes outward against both sides, so the whole thing locks up like a bridge. Try a shower curtain rod next time, the tension kind, wedged between the two chair backs at seat height. Cheap, stores flat, and it won't budge no matter how hard you lean.

4