Since there is no hope to move out of this apartment, I want to make the best out of it. The only way I knew how was to get rid of the old furnitures.
1st things to get rid of were sofa and its bulky coffee table which turned into a junk yard that we kept piling papers (magzines, documents, etc.) and misc. stuff on it. I also found the dining table (sits 6 people) took too much space, whose 2 sides had been wasted. I had my eyes on an expandible dining table from Ikea. It's a 4-people square table w/ 2 more seats after expanded. After a couple of visits to Ikea, we decided to get all 3 pieces from Ikea.
I remember used to jokingly admire an ex-coworker who got a lot of her furnitures from Ikea 15+ yrs ago, which I thought would be expensive. That was before I ever heard of Ikea. Now I understand why she shopped there. W/ the prices I don't think I'd care when their time is up, except the trouble of moving them out of 2F apartment.
Somehow Rajiv found out Ikea has this promotion of eating free w/ discount applied toward home furnishings. Hmm...what are considered home furnishings?!!! Isn't Ikea a home furnishings store?! We went yesterday and had an all-you-can-eat like buffet. We spent $450+ on furnitures and $50 on food => $400 at the end. Today we will go again to "enjoy" its free food and purchase our last piece of furniture, for now.
1st things to get rid of were sofa and its bulky coffee table which turned into a junk yard that we kept piling papers (magzines, documents, etc.) and misc. stuff on it. I also found the dining table (sits 6 people) took too much space, whose 2 sides had been wasted. I had my eyes on an expandible dining table from Ikea. It's a 4-people square table w/ 2 more seats after expanded. After a couple of visits to Ikea, we decided to get all 3 pieces from Ikea.
I remember used to jokingly admire an ex-coworker who got a lot of her furnitures from Ikea 15+ yrs ago, which I thought would be expensive. That was before I ever heard of Ikea. Now I understand why she shopped there. W/ the prices I don't think I'd care when their time is up, except the trouble of moving them out of 2F apartment.
Somehow Rajiv found out Ikea has this promotion of eating free w/ discount applied toward home furnishings. Hmm...what are considered home furnishings?!!! Isn't Ikea a home furnishings store?! We went yesterday and had an all-you-can-eat like buffet. We spent $450+ on furnitures and $50 on food => $400 at the end. Today we will go again to "enjoy" its free food and purchase our last piece of furniture, for now.
