The other day I surprised myself by how excited I got about carpet tape. I suppose I was more excited about securing my carpet — a vintage colorful and handmage shaggy Moroccan piece from Etsy that finally went on sale. I waited for weeks for it to arrive in the mail, and when I finally rolled it out into my living room, I knew I needed a no-tripping solution. Stat.
As it’s a handmade rug, the weave is visible on the underside and was very slippery on my hardwood floor. It bunched up around my coffee table or wherever there was foot traffic, and consistently was just askew enough to make one question their lived reality. While I don’t have children or pets, I am about as clumsy as a toddler, meaning any extra moving variables in my home are a liability. And so, like all millennials, I took myself to Target to find answers to my home problems.
What I soon found was that a cushiony, anchoring under-rug pad was about the same price as my $150 vintage handmade carpet, which, in my Goodwill-calibrated brain, is a capital “S” splurge. I had no intention of spending just as much on a piece of viscous mesh that I don’t even see.
I almost lost hope completely, until I saw a roll of woven, grippy under-carpet tape for an enticing $8. I threw two rolls in my cart and called it a day.
