What’s the bad news?

THEY ARE BOOKED UNTIL JULY!! (Our lease is up at the end of this month.) On one hand, it’s good news that so many people donate furniture that they are booked so far out. We thought of renting a truck, but as you also know — we’re broke.

So where does that leave us? We have a plan B. When we moved to Bed-Stuy there were some pieces of furniture that we couldn’t fit in our new (smaller) apartment. So we put the stuff out by the garbage can. To our surprise the stuff was gone in an hour.

Our plan is to put the furniture on the curb and whoever needs/wants it can have it. We’ll still be taking our clothes over to Housing Works though. All of this clutter is driving me crazy!

Tonight we went to Ikea to look for RV supplies – bad idea. I had forgotten how much that store makes me drool over furniture. Every time we go there, without fail, we spend at least $200. Considering that we go there nearly every other week that’s a huge expense. You know you have a problem if you have to have a category called “Ikea” in your monthly budget.

As soon as we got there Widget and Midget asked to go to their play area. We signed them in and were told that we only had 30-minutes instead of the usual hour because they were closing early. CM and I had to be fast and focused, but before I knew it we were trying out new couches and trying to get measurements of entertainment centers. Again, we were considering ditching the RV idea and just refurnishing our place with this awesome new furniture!

Eventually we got our act together and headed over to the kitchen section. They have really great storage systems for tiny kitchens, but what they also have is AWESOME kitchens! Again, I was swept away and started looking at the different cabinet options. That’s even more ridiculous than looking at couches because I can’t switch out the cabinets in my apartment!

The buzzing pager from the play area telling us it was time to pick up the kids snapped us back into reality. Feeling ashamed (because we had totally lost sight of our goal), weak (because we’re always so quick to ditch the RV idea), and sad (because we REALLY REALLY liked that entertainment center) we walked out of Ikea empty handed. Something we hadn’t done in the last 4 years.