Monday, November 21, 2011

The little things...

Today I bought a dining table and chairs.  I've been looking for a couple of months, but couldn't find anything that was 1) cheap, 2) looked nice and 3) didn't take up a lot of space.  Last week, I purchased a nice dining table and chairs from Art Van for $250.  It was a really cool, trendy triangular table in an espresso finish with three matching chairs.  However, once I got it home and out of the box, I found huge cracks in two of the chairs and the table itself looked like wild orangutans were running whatever Korean shoe-factory machine they were using to make the furniture.

So I ducked into Bed, Bath and Beyond today for a quick look around, and saw a wooden folding table for $60, with matching folding chairs for $40 apiece.  I bought the table and two chairs for a little more than half what I paid for the Art Van furniture, and it actually looked almost as nice.  Almost.
My wooden folding table and folding chairs; they don't look nearly as bad as they sound...

...and they collapse for easy storage!  Call now and save!
This time, everything was in great condition and looked really nice, considering how much I paid.  And I was ridiculously excited about the fact I could fold them up and put them in my closet.  Someday, I'll have a life where these kinds of things don't faze me.  But, for now ... YAY FOR CHEAP FURNITURE!

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