New Desk and Nasty Fridge
Today I managed to move my little freezer chest and all of its contents to the new house. I banged it around pretty thoroughly but it still seems to be freezing things, so that’s good. It’s hard to move things like that when you don’t have any help. If furniture is bulky but relatively light, my six year old can help me at least a little bit, but mostly it’s all on me.
We also took a trip to IKEA so that I could nab some of the storage stuff I need for my kitchen and I made the mistake of hitting up the as-is section first. Usually hitting up the as-is section is a wise decision because if you are looking to buy an expensive piece of furniture and don’t mind ones that have been mauled by a million families before you, you can often find great deals. However, I was not looking to buy expensive pieces of furniture, mauled or otherwise, and during the walk across the parking lot after dropping my kids off at the kiddie play area I warned myself that I was just setting myself up for disappointment.
Sure enough, I found the desk I was thinking of buying, the one that will perfectly fit my computer and my decor now that my computer needs to live in the living room, and that will allow me to get rid of my file cabinet, store all of my office supplies, and even hold the printer/scanner/copier I’m ambivalent about getting rid of even though I never use it. And, of course, it was 50% off too.
I hemmed and hawed while picking out my kitchen storage and my new storage canisters (since it turns out there are very good reasons that you are supposed to store things like flour in airtight containers and those very good reasons are called weevils and let’s never speak of it again), and after I picked up my boys and we ate lunch at the IKEA restaurant (kids ate free today and mmmm, meatballs!) I finally decided that we’d pay for our stuff, take it out to the car, come back, and if the desk was still there, I’d say to hell with the fact that it probably wouldn’t fit in my car and certainly not along side my children, and buy it.
And of course it was still there, so I did, I bought it, and I even somehow managed to get it to my new house. It’s kind of amazing what you can accomplish when you know you really don’t have any other options. But now I have the desk I wanted! And for half the price I was expecting to pay! And, perhaps best of all, I don’t even have to put it together!!
I did, however, make one very unfortunate discovery today. Somehow I never managed to look inside the fridge at my new place and wow, it was so nasty it actually made me gag. And not only was it nasty, but someone managed to punch holes in the interior, which surely can’t be good for its health on the whole. So now I have to decide whether I grin (and hold my breath and close my eyes) and bear it, or whether I buy a new fridge. I priced them a bit tonight and jeez, fridges are expensive, especially if you want a fancy one. But even if you don’t want a fancy one, they’re still expensive when you weren’t planning on buying one.
I guess this weekend will see us visiting used appliance stores. If I could buy something used and fancy for the price of something new and basic, I’d be pretty happy with that. Otherwise, tomorrow’s the first day we can actually start moving in to our new place! The plan is to take over one current piece of toy storage and all the toys in it, then hang out while I put together our new kitchen storage, then return home and load up all non-essential kitchen items. Maybe I’ll also see if I can get my new desk in place so that I can bring over all my office supply shit.
Oh right, and today’s New Year’s Eve! Happy New Year everybody!!