Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This goal works well and my kids love it. I love the sound of the basketball being dribbled outside: 1) it means my kids are outside getting exercise 2) they are not inside, bothering me HOWEVER Lifetime Inc. goes to great pains to explain that you should fill the base with sand, not water. Point taken: freezing water expands, breaks open the base, melts, spills out, unbalances the base, base falls on kid, emergency room. Got it. The base's volume will hold about ten 50 lb bags of sand. That weighs like 700 lbs (I've never been so good with the math). The instruction book recommends using a funnel (you think?) to get this all in a hole about the size of quarter. A quarter. The cartoon characters in the installation book seemingly had no problem with this. As depictions of people and not actual human beings, they can actually perform this task without complaint. A real human would be confronted with the need to eat, watch TV, sleep, feed the kids, go to work... Really. Sand clumps up, even when it is relatively dry. You are getting a tablespoon in every few seconds and next to you sits a trunk load of bagged play sand. I'll bet no human has ever found his life so worthless that he has ever wasted it doing such a thing. Even I quit after a few cups of sand. I threw the bags on top of the base for a few weeks. When my neighbors started complaining how "unsightly" it was, I just told them to buzz off. Well, almost. I actually ended up cutting big hole in the top of the thing with a jigsaw. A sand-sized hole. A Whole square foot (take a lesson, Lifetime). I got the sand in in only eight hours. Now my base has a hole in it. So far, though, my neighbors have not noticed.