GoingNorth
Crazy Cat Lady
When my disability and VA pension first started coming in, I began to put away some of it in savings. When I accumulated a year's living expenses in liquid funds, I decided to start putting money into a 5 year CD for "me money".
I had no idea what I'd do with it, except that I knew I wouldn't stay in Rhinelander forever, or at least that I wouldn't live in a ratty trailer forever.
The CD matured back in March and I cashed it in right before I moved "Down South". As you know, I am waiting for my apartment to be re-furbished. It will be ready for me to move into on July 15th.
Today, I spent my mad money on ordering furniture for my apartment. I purchased a matching sofa and loveseat in a woodsy greenish brown, a comfy chair in a coordinating print on a cream background (that I will be kicking cats out of constantly), two cherrywood and wrought iron end tables that will go nicely with the cherry wood coffee table I already have, a cherry wood TV stand that will go with the rest of the stuff.
For my little dining area, I got an octagonal dining table that is pecan around the edges with a faux marble center, with four chairs with wrought metal legs and backs, pecan tops to the backs, and upholstered seats.
My poor little tiny round, drop leaf pine kitchenette dinette with two chairs will go in my bedroom as temporary computer table until I can get a computer desk for the bedroom.
For the bedroom I got a large "high boy chest of drawers in a distresses antiqued light oak finish with brass knobs and handles, and a matching dresser and nightstand. I didn't get the matching bed for two reasons. One, it is immense and I'm not fond of the very high backed headboards so fashionable right now. The other is that I prefer a full-sized bed to a queen, and the bed is not available in a full.
I have already ordered a Saatva hotel quality mattress set in a full and was quite please to find the same set at the furniture store for over a thousand dollars more than I paid for it online.
This will likely be the last furniture set I buy. It will be part of my estate. I have never owned all wood furniture of this quality before, nor have I ever owned a new, "picked out the upholstery/wait for it to be made" living room set.
The frames of the furniture are solid wood which means that if I want to sit cockeyed in the chair with my legs and over one arm I can do so without breaking it. (I still cringe and what happened when I did that in my mother's armchair from Value City...Yikes!) The couch is nice and comfy so if mum comes to visit, she'll have soft place to sleep, though we'll have to confine the cats to my bedroom for the night as she won't appreciate Thomas usual wakeup call which involves a lot of face slurping and nose nibbling.
It was very interesting to shop this way as I had photographs and measurements of an identical empty apartment (mine is currently gutted and won't be ready for viewing til after July1), had already laid out exactly how I wanted it furnished and sketched in the layout of furniture and had definite pictures in my mind of how MY Place was going to look, an exact sum of money that I could spend, and dragged the salesman around the store slotting items into my "picture" Took about 4 hours, my feet still hurt. I sat and laid down on a lot of duds.
I went to the furniture store I went to (a mid-range chain) after researching several stores online and looking at inventory, pricing, and what sales they have going on. For those of you in the Midwest, now through July 4th is the time to buy furniture. Stores are marking down at least 25% as the 2016 fashions are going to be coming in soon.
I did see some of the trends: HUGE clear or tinted glass globes and vases on end tables and coffee tables, gigantic, antiqued bird-cagey looking things, either free-standing on the floor, or again on tables of various types.
I'm not sure what the point of all this stuff is beyond it seeming to be popular to put smaller glass objects into the larger glass objects, but between one oversized and very uncoordinated orange hairball and one, small, furry lunatic lacking in distance judgement, the whole thing gives me the willies.
So, for the first time since the medical bills force me out of the house that Stu and I had made into our own home, I am making a new place into MY home. It's a neat feeling. Even if I could've darned near paid off my car for what paid for furnishings today.
There's enough left for mum to take me out to buy window treatments and towels and tchotchkes...Dog help me...
I had no idea what I'd do with it, except that I knew I wouldn't stay in Rhinelander forever, or at least that I wouldn't live in a ratty trailer forever.
The CD matured back in March and I cashed it in right before I moved "Down South". As you know, I am waiting for my apartment to be re-furbished. It will be ready for me to move into on July 15th.
Today, I spent my mad money on ordering furniture for my apartment. I purchased a matching sofa and loveseat in a woodsy greenish brown, a comfy chair in a coordinating print on a cream background (that I will be kicking cats out of constantly), two cherrywood and wrought iron end tables that will go nicely with the cherry wood coffee table I already have, a cherry wood TV stand that will go with the rest of the stuff.
For my little dining area, I got an octagonal dining table that is pecan around the edges with a faux marble center, with four chairs with wrought metal legs and backs, pecan tops to the backs, and upholstered seats.
My poor little tiny round, drop leaf pine kitchenette dinette with two chairs will go in my bedroom as temporary computer table until I can get a computer desk for the bedroom.
For the bedroom I got a large "high boy chest of drawers in a distresses antiqued light oak finish with brass knobs and handles, and a matching dresser and nightstand. I didn't get the matching bed for two reasons. One, it is immense and I'm not fond of the very high backed headboards so fashionable right now. The other is that I prefer a full-sized bed to a queen, and the bed is not available in a full.
I have already ordered a Saatva hotel quality mattress set in a full and was quite please to find the same set at the furniture store for over a thousand dollars more than I paid for it online.
This will likely be the last furniture set I buy. It will be part of my estate. I have never owned all wood furniture of this quality before, nor have I ever owned a new, "picked out the upholstery/wait for it to be made" living room set.
The frames of the furniture are solid wood which means that if I want to sit cockeyed in the chair with my legs and over one arm I can do so without breaking it. (I still cringe and what happened when I did that in my mother's armchair from Value City...Yikes!) The couch is nice and comfy so if mum comes to visit, she'll have soft place to sleep, though we'll have to confine the cats to my bedroom for the night as she won't appreciate Thomas usual wakeup call which involves a lot of face slurping and nose nibbling.
It was very interesting to shop this way as I had photographs and measurements of an identical empty apartment (mine is currently gutted and won't be ready for viewing til after July1), had already laid out exactly how I wanted it furnished and sketched in the layout of furniture and had definite pictures in my mind of how MY Place was going to look, an exact sum of money that I could spend, and dragged the salesman around the store slotting items into my "picture" Took about 4 hours, my feet still hurt. I sat and laid down on a lot of duds.
I went to the furniture store I went to (a mid-range chain) after researching several stores online and looking at inventory, pricing, and what sales they have going on. For those of you in the Midwest, now through July 4th is the time to buy furniture. Stores are marking down at least 25% as the 2016 fashions are going to be coming in soon.
I did see some of the trends: HUGE clear or tinted glass globes and vases on end tables and coffee tables, gigantic, antiqued bird-cagey looking things, either free-standing on the floor, or again on tables of various types.
I'm not sure what the point of all this stuff is beyond it seeming to be popular to put smaller glass objects into the larger glass objects, but between one oversized and very uncoordinated orange hairball and one, small, furry lunatic lacking in distance judgement, the whole thing gives me the willies.
So, for the first time since the medical bills force me out of the house that Stu and I had made into our own home, I am making a new place into MY home. It's a neat feeling. Even if I could've darned near paid off my car for what paid for furnishings today.
There's enough left for mum to take me out to buy window treatments and towels and tchotchkes...Dog help me...