Happy House Hunting
One week of boxing can tire you out pretty quickly. I don't mean boxing as in fist to the face, but the terrible process of moving: Packing boxes, carrying boxes, opening boxes, sifting through boxes, dropping, breaking, kicking, screaming at and flattening boxes. We are about 75% done with the boxing process altogether. I cannot wait until the other 25% is done. Let's see, it took us two weeks to do 75% of the work. I'll estimate that the rest will be done by.... Christmas.
Decorating is the next step, which although it sounds fun and planning color schemes and themes makes my heart skip, (my magazine stack is knee high, pages half torn out, oh, plum is in!) decorating hurts more than just your head. As a young twenty something, recent graduate, I know the wallet woes. Who knew that buying a 12-pack of cheap-o toilet paper could cost more than a whole meal? By nature I am thrifty, so my decorating adventures should be no different. Yesterday, my co-worker gave me a $50.00 Wolf Furniture Coupon good off of anything (she's a prefered customer, meaning she spent more than she should have there). I thought "Great, I'll be able to get a nice little chair or a vase." I walk into the store off of West Patrick Street, you know, the one near Denny's with the annoying speed bumps everywhere? Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about, you may have gotten a concussion driving around those lots. Anywho, I walk into Wolf and parade around the store for half an hour in search for any item $50.00 or under. Even their tiny , made in China, desk clocks ran $70 to $90 something. But, being determined as I was not to spend anything and still get something, I finally found a tea cup size potted plant, plastic of course. Originally price a whopping $90 something, on sale for $50.40. Victory is mine! I walked out with a free little green plant for my new kitchen.
If someone has ever really spent $90.00 on this thing, then I want their number, cause they must be rolling in the dough and as we all know, recent college graduates have nothing in their bank accounts. With over 20,000 in student loans and new residence expenses, when we see "light refreshments will be served" at ANY free event, we will 100% guaranteed be there. I can't even remember the last time I paid for a real cup of coffee.
Decorating is the next step, which although it sounds fun and planning color schemes and themes makes my heart skip, (my magazine stack is knee high, pages half torn out, oh, plum is in!) decorating hurts more than just your head. As a young twenty something, recent graduate, I know the wallet woes. Who knew that buying a 12-pack of cheap-o toilet paper could cost more than a whole meal? By nature I am thrifty, so my decorating adventures should be no different. Yesterday, my co-worker gave me a $50.00 Wolf Furniture Coupon good off of anything (she's a prefered customer, meaning she spent more than she should have there). I thought "Great, I'll be able to get a nice little chair or a vase." I walk into the store off of West Patrick Street, you know, the one near Denny's with the annoying speed bumps everywhere? Yeah, you know the one I'm talking about, you may have gotten a concussion driving around those lots. Anywho, I walk into Wolf and parade around the store for half an hour in search for any item $50.00 or under. Even their tiny , made in China, desk clocks ran $70 to $90 something. But, being determined as I was not to spend anything and still get something, I finally found a tea cup size potted plant, plastic of course. Originally price a whopping $90 something, on sale for $50.40. Victory is mine! I walked out with a free little green plant for my new kitchen.
If someone has ever really spent $90.00 on this thing, then I want their number, cause they must be rolling in the dough and as we all know, recent college graduates have nothing in their bank accounts. With over 20,000 in student loans and new residence expenses, when we see "light refreshments will be served" at ANY free event, we will 100% guaranteed be there. I can't even remember the last time I paid for a real cup of coffee.