We finally have a sofa!

I just came from an auction here in town where I bought a comfortable and
not bad-looking sofa for only $20! I think the reason it went for so little
was they left it until the very end, by which time most of the other buyers
had either already left or had spent their money on other stuff.

I've been looking for a decent and affordable sofa ever since I moved to
town, so I am really thrilled. But that's not all - I also got two tables
for another buck, and a box of *cotton* area rugs for $2!! Rugs like these
cost around $20 apiece new at Walmart, and there are three of them in the
box!

So I'm happy as a pig in slop tonight, and tomorrow if I can find a way to
bring the stuff home, the cats will finally have a place to sleep other than
the floor, the cat condo, my desk chair and my bed. I'm sure they'll be just
as thrilled as I am!

excellent to hear Pat.

I'm looking for a new sofa too. The current sofa belonged to my
roomie's family and is well over 30 years old. It's made out of
egyptian cotton and after 3 years of cats, one armrest and two corners
are looking a little shredded. There's a front section on wheels that
can be rolled out as a footstool. It's uncomfortable and the whole
thing isn't fun to sit or sleep on. The roomie's family said I could
keep it since the roomie is moving to a place where she doesn't need
the couch anymore.

But I don't want it. I want a soft, long sofa I can streeeeeeeeetch
out onto.

I remember walking into Wickes furniture and told the sales guy. "I'm
a student, so I need a low price, and I have cats, so leather and
expensive fabric is OUT"

Found a nice secondhand one online, but of course I need to wait until
the roomie is out and the apartment is clean, and moreover, I need to
wait until i have the cash for something like that.

Hope your cats like the couch.

take care,

Kristi

Mischief wrote:
excellent to hear Pat.

I'm looking for a new sofa too. The current sofa belonged to my
roomie's family and is well over 30 years old. It's made out of
egyptian cotton and after 3 years of cats, one armrest and two corners
are looking a little shredded. There's a front section on wheels that
can be rolled out as a footstool. It's uncomfortable and the whole
thing isn't fun to sit or sleep on. The roomie's family said I could
keep it since the roomie is moving to a place where she doesn't need
the couch anymore.

But I don't want it. I want a soft, long sofa I can streeeeeeeeetch
out onto.

I remember walking into Wickes furniture and told the sales guy. "I'm
a student, so I need a low price, and I have cats, so leather and
expensive fabric is OUT"

Found a nice secondhand one online, but of course I need to wait until
the roomie is out and the apartment is clean, and moreover, I need to
wait until i have the cash for something like that.

Hope your cats like the couch.

take care,

Kristi

Have you been couch-shopping lately? My daughter got a new one
recently. /They're all so huge. My feet don't touch the floor sitting
on hers. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. There are some great buys out
there on nice used furniture. I think you're wise to find one that
way.

Sherry

On 2006-08-26 09:45:27 -0500, said:


Mischief wrote:
excellent to hear Pat.

I'm looking for a new sofa too. The current sofa belonged to my
roomie's family and is well over 30 years old. It's made out of
egyptian cotton and after 3 years of cats, one armrest and two corners
are looking a little shredded. There's a front section on wheels that
can be rolled out as a footstool. It's uncomfortable and the whole
thing isn't fun to sit or sleep on. The roomie's family said I could
keep it since the roomie is moving to a place where she doesn't need
the couch anymore.

But I don't want it. I want a soft, long sofa I can streeeeeeeeetch
out onto.

I remember walking into Wickes furniture and told the sales guy. "I'm
a student, so I need a low price, and I have cats, so leather and
expensive fabric is OUT"

Found a nice secondhand one online, but of course I need to wait until
the roomie is out and the apartment is clean, and moreover, I need to
wait until i have the cash for something like that.

Hope your cats like the couch.

take care,

Kristi

Have you been couch-shopping lately? My daughter got a new one
recently. /They're all so huge. My feet don't touch the floor sitting
on hers. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. There are some great buys out
there on nice used furniture. I think you're wise to find one that
way.
Sherry

I know!! All furniture is HUGE! Like everyone lives in a gigantic house
or soemthing.

"Karen" wrote in message
news:2006082610303316807%kchuplis@alltelnet...
On 2006-08-26 09:45:27 -0500, said:


Mischief wrote:
excellent to hear Pat.

I'm looking for a new sofa too. The current sofa belonged to my
roomie's family and is well over 30 years old. It's made out of
egyptian cotton and after 3 years of cats, one armrest and two corners
are looking a little shredded. There's a front section on wheels that
can be rolled out as a footstool. It's uncomfortable and the whole
thing isn't fun to sit or sleep on. The roomie's family said I could
keep it since the roomie is moving to a place where she doesn't need
the couch anymore.

But I don't want it. I want a soft, long sofa I can streeeeeeeeetch
out onto.

I remember walking into Wickes furniture and told the sales guy. "I'm
a student, so I need a low price, and I have cats, so leather and
expensive fabric is OUT"

Found a nice secondhand one online, but of course I need to wait until
the roomie is out and the apartment is clean, and moreover, I need to
wait until i have the cash for something like that.

Hope your cats like the couch.

take care,

Kristi

Have you been couch-shopping lately? My daughter got a new one
recently. /They're all so huge. My feet don't touch the floor sitting
on hers. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. There are some great buys out
there on nice used furniture. I think you're wise to find one that
way.
Sherry

I know!! All furniture is HUGE! Like everyone lives in a gigantic house or
soemthing.

Pat, congratulations on the sofa. We had a sofa we bought at auction in
Alaska for years and years. Loved it. Especially as the alternative was
the military issue one the Air Force was loaning us for the tour. Hope the
masters appreciate it. And allow you to use it on occasion

Go to IKEA for not huge furniture. They have the mini furniture market
covered. I love their showroom version of a 550 sq ft fully furnished
apartment.

I'd love to get a new sofa. Ours is too low for me to stand up from easily.
Old knees and old sofas don't mix. Maybe when Kayla gets a little older.
She is getting more settled. But she did try to dig a hole in the wall a
few days ago when I locked her out of the computer room.

Jo

On 2006-08-26 12:52:25 -0500, "Jo Firey" said:


"Karen" wrote in message
news:2006082610303316807%kchuplis@alltelnet...
On 2006-08-26 09:45:27 -0500, said:


Mischief wrote:
excellent to hear Pat.

I'm looking for a new sofa too. The current sofa belonged to my
roomie's family and is well over 30 years old. It's made out of
egyptian cotton and after 3 years of cats, one armrest and two corners
are looking a little shredded. There's a front section on wheels that
can be rolled out as a footstool. It's uncomfortable and the whole
thing isn't fun to sit or sleep on. The roomie's family said I could
keep it since the roomie is moving to a place where she doesn't need
the couch anymore.

But I don't want it. I want a soft, long sofa I can streeeeeeeeetch
out onto.

I remember walking into Wickes furniture and told the sales guy. "I'm
a student, so I need a low price, and I have cats, so leather and
expensive fabric is OUT"

Found a nice secondhand one online, but of course I need to wait until
the roomie is out and the apartment is clean, and moreover, I need to
wait until i have the cash for something like that.

Hope your cats like the couch.

take care,

Kristi

Have you been couch-shopping lately? My daughter got a new one
recently. /They're all so huge. My feet don't touch the floor sitting
on hers. I feel like Alice in Wonderland. There are some great buys out
there on nice used furniture. I think you're wise to find one that
way.
Sherry

I know!! All furniture is HUGE! Like everyone lives in a gigantic house
or soemthing.

Pat, congratulations on the sofa. We had a sofa we bought at auction
in Alaska for years and years. Loved it. Especially as the
alternative was the military issue one the Air Force was loaning us for
the tour. Hope the masters appreciate it. And allow you to use it on
occasion

Go to IKEA for not huge furniture. They have the mini furniture market
covered. I love their showroom version of a 550 sq ft fully furnished
apartment.

I'd love to get a new sofa. Ours is too low for me to stand up from
easily. Old knees and old sofas don't mix. Maybe when Kayla gets a
little older. She is getting more settled. But she did try to dig a
hole in the wall a few days ago when I locked her out of the computer
room.

Jo

No IKEA. I hear everyone talk about it, but have never seen one. I'm
aiming for a new sofa and chair next year, but everytime I go looking,
the furniture I see is just much too huge.

wrote:

There are some great buys out there on nice used furniture.

I could really use another couch. The one I have now is just not very
comfortable. It was hand-built by a non-professional, and it creaks
whenever I sit on it. Also, the cushions are very hard.

I'm not willing to buy a new one - I just can't see spending, at the
very lowest, most deeply discounted price, $700, or, more likely, much
more. For a *couch*? I would like to be more comfy, but I do not need
anything really fancy. Let's face it, whatever I buy is going to merge
with cat fur and get scratched, so it might as well not start out
pristine. So, a used couch sounds like the best plan.

Can anyone recommend a store that *delivers* used furniture? I live
alone and don't know people who have vehicles large enough to transport
a couch. I have friends, but most of them are decrepit like me and
can't carry couches up the stairs. I guess I could pay someone to do
it for me if I can't find a store that does delivery.

This would have to be a chain store, naturally, unless Sandy from
Concord (or is it sandra? I'm sorry, I always get you two confused)
knows of some place local.

Thanks,
Joyce

On 2006-08-26, Mischief penned:

I'm looking for a new sofa too.

Me too. We actually have two couches in our house. The one in the TV
room is from my single days. DH absolutely hates it because there's a
pillow-type effect at head and neck level that kind of forces your
head forward, but he hates spending big money even more.

Then there's another one in the bay window at the front of the house.
It was free from friends, but it still has some of their dog's fur,
and the center cushion has a hole on both sides, so you can't hide it.

Pretty sure both of these couches would send you into an instant
asthma attack, Kristi. Too much pet history!

I have plans to buy an L-shaped sectional couch for the living room
and move my old couch to the bay window, and give away the hand me
down couch ... but sectionals are expensive! Youch! We'll see. We
(mostly I) actually have a lot of home improvement plans, but it's one
thing to say "I want a new bed" and another to actually come to grips
with spending the money to get what you want. Meh.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

I have plans to buy an L-shaped sectional couch for the living room
and move my old couch to the bay window, and give away the hand me
down couch ... but sectionals are expensive! Youch! We'll see. We
(mostly I) actually have a lot of home improvement plans, but it's one
thing to say "I want a new bed" and another to actually come to grips
with spending the money to get what you want. Meh.

I did all that when I moved last year; bought a new bed (lovely!), new
bookcase, new desk (well, not new, it's from an antiques auction) etc.
That (along with Frank's vet bills) pretty much cleaned out my savings
account. The last of the money will go next Friday when I finally get my
new tooth implant. I'll just have to start saving again. Hope the cats
don't get any serious illnesses in the meantime.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.
Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

On 2006-08-27, Marina penned:
I did all that when I moved last year; bought a new bed (lovely!),
new bookcase, new desk (well, not new, it's from an antiques
auction) etc. That (along with Frank's vet bills) pretty much
cleaned out my savings account. The last of the money will go next
Friday when I finally get my new tooth implant. I'll just have to
start saving again. Hope the cats don't get any serious illnesses in
the meantime.

Yeah; DH bought a new car, and we just paid the yearly property taxes
on it, and money is pretty tight. DH is supposed to be laid off at
the end of the year; the severance package should help us pay off some
of our smaller loans, which will be nice. I think we've decided on a
rule of "If you're contributing extra money, contribute it to the loan
with the highest interest rate, but if you have enough extra to
actually pay a loan off, then do so." So we pay extra into our HELOC
(this may be a US-specific construct; it's a portion of our mortgage
that is actually a line of credit), which is our only variable-rate
loan, but if we had a lump sum, it would pay off one of our
motorcycles. Or if the lump sum were large enough, the HELOC.

Obviously from what I've just said, money isn't tight in the sense of
not being able to afford the necessities; we've made some choices that
right now have us watching money more closely than we usually do. One
of those choices was to max out our 401K (retirement contributions)
for the year, meaning that I just more than doubled my per-paycheck
contribution. That's going to hurt in the short term.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca