We bought this stand for our laundry room so that our kids had somewhere for their backpacks and shoes at the end of the school day. Two days after my husband built it, the screws stripped out of the lid. My kids weren't even rough with it. It actually happened when my husband opened the lid. He did get it fixed with a new bracket that he and my dad got at Lowe's. We use it daily, now that it is fixed.