As some of you may know, my current roommate is getting married soon, leaving my without a place to live.
The plan Heather and I came up with was for me to move into her apartment, and for her to move in with her grandmother for the 3 remaining months until we are married. Heather wanted to have a few things ready before the move, primarily a desk that wasn’t as ugly as the table thing I have my computer setting on currently.
We stopped by Nebraska Furniture Mart Sunday, looking for a desk. Checked “Mrs B’s” the “scratch and dent” section of NFM. from what I can tell they don’t actually have much stuff there that is truly damaged, so much as maybe odds and ends of discontinued items, and just their more discount oriented products. We found a desk that would be about ideal, the proper size, and color almost as soon as we walked in. They had two of them, one that had a somewhat obviously backwards brace holding up the keyboard tray. That wasn’t a big issue for us, because to actually fit me comfortably at the desk, my plan was to remove the keyboard tray.
On our way over to find a salesperson, we stumbled onto mattresses. Heather and I had decided to just use the mattress she had in her apartment for the time being. we hope to not be in the apartment too long, and a bedroom set would be high on the list of things to buy once we moved into a house. The problem with the current mattress is that it has a feather pillow thing giving it most of its padding, and I am slightly allergic to down. We asked about mattress pillows in NFM, they didn’t have any but the sales person pointed out how cheap a mattress alone was. We picked out a new mattress for a price that was within $40 of what I was expecting to have to pay for a new pillow cover.
back to the desk… we lead the same lady that just sold us the bed back to the desk area to add that onto our order. I pointed out the assembly problem it had, and asked if we could get a discount. She took 25% off the desk, and we had all the furniture we needed to fully outfit the apartment for a *lot* cheaper than ether Heather or I expected.
moving the new stuff in, and the old mattress wasn’t the most fun way to spend the rest of our Sunday afternoon, but it was really satisfying to get that taken care of. I am almost looking forward to moving the rest of my stuff, it feels like I will be moving into a “home” instead of another apartment.
-Jordan
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