Rubia Warren
December 30th 2005, 08:05 PM
You can be a doubter. It doesn't matter. I know that today was my day, and that it was influenced that way by God.
I have a very ghetto living room. Even my friends comment about it. :blush: I avoid going in there, it's so uninviting. It's due in part to my furniture- it's ghetto.
I've had it a long time and it was never a style that I particularly favored. It is clean and not ripped or anything, but I was tired of it. (It was given to me as a set used when I got it), and a few years ago, a girl was living in an apartment behind me and had no furniture to sit on for a long time, so I gave my loveseat to her cuz that bothered me. So I've had just a couch, and a few chairs have moved in and out of here (that don't match and are raggedy), and like I said, it's just ghetto.
I have longed for so long for new furniture, but it isn't quite my time to enter a furniture store and make that type of investment-today wasn't my day for that- so I've done what I do best-- spent months scouring the internet and local newspapers, visiting yard sales, estate sales, making phone call inquiries, etc. But I just haven't found anything that either I can easily afford, or that I've really fallen in love with. :nsm:
I became really discouraged yesterday about it. Peering into my living room gave me asco after all this time. :shifty: Nothing in the newspaper (as usual), and I found a good deal, but it still wasn't a sofa I had in mind. But there was an ad in the paper for a set for $150-- right off the bat I figured it was for some used ghetto furniture just like I already have, but I decided to call anyway because you just never know.
When I called, the man described it to me and it sounded weird, but I was curious so I went & looked at it today because it was a rich dude. He sold me this furniture for $120. I cannot believe it, because it is the furniture that I have longed for..... it has tall arms, unattached cushions and *gasp* it's even red! *chokes back a tear* Yeah, so it is used. It's clean with no rips or anything. I keep staring at it not wanting to sit on it because I can't believe it belongs to me today.
All of this was enough to convince me, and cause me to have gratitude to God for making this my day.
But as I was leaving, his wife got home, and said, "Today is your lucky day. You got a really good deal on this set." and I told her yes, and how grateful I was to them for that. But then she said, "It's funny, because no one called about it for over a week, so we dropped the price to get it out of here. Still no calls. Then we took it to the basement, and after that started getting all kinds of calls. But it was so much work getting it down there, I just ignored the phone calls and let the answering machine pick up. After many days of this, finally you called and left a message- I was here at the time. And at that moment, I just began to wonder, due to the volume of calls, if we should just sell it already. So I called my husband at work and asked him what he thought, and that is when he decided again to sell it and he called you."
So I am very grateful to God today for making this day mine.
Here is my new used 120 dollar furniture. Any dark spots are just from lighting, not from being dirty. (and people just got up from sitting on it which is why the frumpy look)
I have a very ghetto living room. Even my friends comment about it. :blush: I avoid going in there, it's so uninviting. It's due in part to my furniture- it's ghetto.
I've had it a long time and it was never a style that I particularly favored. It is clean and not ripped or anything, but I was tired of it. (It was given to me as a set used when I got it), and a few years ago, a girl was living in an apartment behind me and had no furniture to sit on for a long time, so I gave my loveseat to her cuz that bothered me. So I've had just a couch, and a few chairs have moved in and out of here (that don't match and are raggedy), and like I said, it's just ghetto.
I have longed for so long for new furniture, but it isn't quite my time to enter a furniture store and make that type of investment-today wasn't my day for that- so I've done what I do best-- spent months scouring the internet and local newspapers, visiting yard sales, estate sales, making phone call inquiries, etc. But I just haven't found anything that either I can easily afford, or that I've really fallen in love with. :nsm:
I became really discouraged yesterday about it. Peering into my living room gave me asco after all this time. :shifty: Nothing in the newspaper (as usual), and I found a good deal, but it still wasn't a sofa I had in mind. But there was an ad in the paper for a set for $150-- right off the bat I figured it was for some used ghetto furniture just like I already have, but I decided to call anyway because you just never know.
When I called, the man described it to me and it sounded weird, but I was curious so I went & looked at it today because it was a rich dude. He sold me this furniture for $120. I cannot believe it, because it is the furniture that I have longed for..... it has tall arms, unattached cushions and *gasp* it's even red! *chokes back a tear* Yeah, so it is used. It's clean with no rips or anything. I keep staring at it not wanting to sit on it because I can't believe it belongs to me today.
All of this was enough to convince me, and cause me to have gratitude to God for making this my day.
But as I was leaving, his wife got home, and said, "Today is your lucky day. You got a really good deal on this set." and I told her yes, and how grateful I was to them for that. But then she said, "It's funny, because no one called about it for over a week, so we dropped the price to get it out of here. Still no calls. Then we took it to the basement, and after that started getting all kinds of calls. But it was so much work getting it down there, I just ignored the phone calls and let the answering machine pick up. After many days of this, finally you called and left a message- I was here at the time. And at that moment, I just began to wonder, due to the volume of calls, if we should just sell it already. So I called my husband at work and asked him what he thought, and that is when he decided again to sell it and he called you."
So I am very grateful to God today for making this day mine.
Here is my new used 120 dollar furniture. Any dark spots are just from lighting, not from being dirty. (and people just got up from sitting on it which is why the frumpy look)