Craig is my Best Cyber Friend

I'm a fan of craigslist. I mean, a BIG fan. I could spend all day on there looking for furniture to redo or furniture that is in great condition. When Landon and I first got married, that's where we shopped to furnish our small 1 bed 1 bathroom apartment. We got our couch, dining room table with 6 chairs, and our small accent chair all on craigslist. They were all in great shape, and our small little apartment began to look more like home.

Now that we are about to move in to our first house, I started looking on some other furniture websites and furniture stores. I may be spoiled, but holy cow! Furniture at retail price is expensive! (compared to craigslist). So I went back to craigslist. I knew I wanted a new dining room table, one that looked more "grown up". After days of searching, I found one for $150. It was beautiful and worth well over $150. I sold my other dining room table (made a profit of $15) and was very pleased. Next, I needed some sort of love seat to fill up my larger living room. I wanted it to match my couch, but knew that in all reality, I might should just look for a whole new set. I didn't want a "hodge podge" of furniture. I ended up fining the exact love seat that goes with my couch (keep in mind I bought my couch almost 2 years ago)! Now, all I need are the cute pillows I found at Pier1.:) (I will probably end up spending more on the pillows to go on the couch and love seat than I did on the actual couch and love seat.

We have been very blessed to have found the things that we need (and will use for a long time) at such a great price!

Run Down of each room and the amount of money we have spent on furniture:

Living Room:

• Couch: $100


• Love Seat: $125
• Red Accent Chair: $75


• Coffee Table & Media Cabinet: Free (gifts)

Dining Room:

• Table & 4 Chairs: $150
  

Master Bedroom & Guest Bedroom:

• 2 beds: Free (gifts)
• 2 tall dressers: Free (gifts)
• 1 small dresser: Free (gift)

My next goal is to find night stands that I can redo. So to total up the furniture that is in my apartment right now, we have spent a total of $450. Now you can understand why it is hard for me to buy a couch at retail price for $700 when my whole apartment is furnished for less than that!

What are some great buys you have found on craigslist???

Growing Up

Landon and I are coming up on our 2 year anniversary. It's only 2 months away! It's hard to believe that 2 years ago, I was planning to marry the man of my dreams. Landon and I have grown up and changed a lot in the last 2 years. We have fallen more in love in the trials and the successes that we have gone through together.

We are now about to face our next exciting moment in our life together. A house! Over the last month, we have been looking more seriously into buying a house. We finally went out with a realtor to see what was available. We found a few that we liked and even put an offer on one. Someone else had put an offer at the same time, and the seller took the other offer. We were a little disappointed, but we knew our house was out there somewhere. I found another house online that I really liked, but after talking to our realtor, we found out it was already in contract. Again, disappointment! Once again, back to the internet. I found a few that I liked, showed them to Landon, and he told our realtor. Our realtor said we could go look at them the next day, but I had to go pick up our new dining room table. Landon went to look at it and loved it! I was going to look at it the next day, but our realtor called and said someone was putting an offer on it, so we put an offer on it even without me having seen it! I went the next day, fell in love, and then played the waiting game. We finally got the call the next night around 10:00 that they accepted our offer!! We were/are so excited!

We are supposed to close April 7th if all goes well. I can't stop thinking/dreaming of how my first home will look.