...assembling...
I’m pretty much like you, lee -
I’d rather pay someone to put it together and have an item delivered to my house.
Not all folks can assemble stuff.
LOL
I know myself. After a couple of near misses, after a few hours when I realize I have to take it apart and start all over, I am usually ready to throw such items in the back of the Guest Closet (forevermore!) or in the nearest dumper.
In my last house, I had purchased a kit to assemble a large desk. It was quite large with many drawers, complete with a hutch on top.
The package the desk was delivered in was so heavy, I
cut open the package and moved few parts at a time from the garage to the room where it was going to be placed, and assembled it there.
Then we were moving to another house in another town. I dis-assembled all dozens of parts of the desk, which made it easy to move into the U-Haul van. And in the new house I re-assembled it! Self-assembly has it’s advantages.