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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2006We 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 > excellent to hear Pat. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > 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 >> excellent to hear Pat. >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > way. > Sherry I know!! All furniture is HUGE! Like everyone lives in a gigantic house or soemthing. >>> excellent to hear Pat. >>> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > 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 >>>> excellent to hear Pat. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > > 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. > 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. Ikea is great. Don't think there's one anywhere near here, either, but I loved their stuff when I was in VA.  Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > 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. Here in Finland they have an online store, too, so you can just order stuff. Of course, I'd rather try out a piece of furniture first, especially something big, like a sofa. SignatureMarina, 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 > 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 > 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. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > 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. SignatureMarina, 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > 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 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 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! Congratulations, Pat, I hope your clowder is happy with *their* new sofa. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > 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 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 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! Congrats on the sofa. There are yard sales all around here selling sofas and chairs due to divorces, etc. You can usually get some good deals at yard sales. Jill Congrats on the find! My sofa came from another member at my old squadron. He had bought it for when his father in law visited (it had a pull out bed). His father in law came over ONCE, slept on this sofa for ONE NIGHT, and didn't come back again...ever! After ten years the guy was tired of having a huge extra sofa in his house. And I was sitting in my living room in a lawn chair to watch TV! I offered him $50 for it but all he wanted was "the damn thing out of my house" so I have a big, fluffy, soft sofa with a pull out bed, and the guy even delivered it! I have had it for 5 years now. It is starting to show its age a bit but I forsee keeping it for atleast another 5 years. It is great to have the pull out double bed for company. --Fil > > 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. > Congrats on the sofa. There are yard sales all around here selling sofas > and chairs due to divorces, etc. You can usually get some good deals at > yard sales. > > Jill > Congrats on the find! Thanks. > My sofa came from another member at my old squadron. He had bought it > for when his father in law visited (it had a pull out bed). His father [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > And I was sitting in my living room in a lawn chair to watch TV! That's what I've been doing since March, LOL. > I offered him $50 for it but all he wanted was "the damn thing out of > my house" so I have a big, fluffy, soft sofa with a pull out bed, and > the guy even delivered it! I have had it for 5 years now. It is > starting to show its age a bit but I forsee keeping it for atleast > another 5 years. It is great to have the pull out double bed for > company. There's a used furniture store about 1/4 mile from where I live. The owner, Frank, bought the electric stove and the old A/C unit that came with this house. Frank goes to auctions in outlying areas and buys for his store, so I told him I was looking for a decent sofa, but it had to be really inexpensive, and NOT with a bed, as they are way too heavy for me to shift around. All the sofas in his store since March have been the kind with pull-out beds, and a few that were so ugly and dirty that I wouldn't take them as gifts. He wasn't at this auction Friday night but if he had been there I know he wouldn't have bid on *my* sofa. He's a nice guy and he likes me, but unfortunately he's not my type. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the floor, the cat condo, my desk chair and my bed. I'm sure they'll be just > as thrilled as I am! Way back when -- my mother bought a sofa from the sister of one of my friends. This was during WWII After a good brushing, I ran my hands down the sides and back. I found $4.36 in change. It's worth a try! MLB > > 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 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > down the sides and back. I found $4.36 in change. It's worth a try! > MLB Whoa! Good idea to check for change. :-) I bought a pair of denim shorts at a garage sale for fifty cents once, and found a $5 bill in the pocket. That was the best deal I ever made. :-) Sherry >>> 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 [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Sherry I heard a story on NPR about a guy who felt guilty about all this money he made selling weapons. He couldn't stand it anymore, so finally he stuffed it into all his furniture and tv and stuff and sat out on the curb with a friend, swore the friend not to tell and tried to sell the stuff to anyone who came by, super super cheap. I always wondered if people found the money. One lady bought the couch and said she was going to throw out the cushions (where the money was stuffed) and make new ones. The friend kept saying "Oh you should just recover those". He was so forceful the lady started to give him strange looks so he had to back off. Do you suppose people found the money? >>>> 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 [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > He was so forceful the lady started to give him strange looks so he had > to back off. Do you suppose people found the money? Some maybe, some not. But the weirdest issue about money from guns is the Winchester house near San Francisco. Widow Winchester was so afraid of the ghost of the people kiled by the guns made by hubby, she made shrinking rooms, stairs that went nowhere, doors that opened to nothing.... "Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: > But the weirdest issue about money from guns is the Winchester house near > San Francisco. Widow Winchester was so afraid of the ghost of the people > kiled by the guns made by hubby, she made shrinking rooms, stairs that went > nowhere, doors that opened to nothing.... I've always heard that she believed that if she kept building onto the house that she wouldn't die, or something like that. She pretty much lost it after her husband died. Joyce > 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 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 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! Wow, Pat. The deals you manage to find are always astounding. I'm sure you'll be much more comfortable with a sofain the house, too =) Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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