Major Purchase Time

For the past month we have been creating numerous lists of things we need to purchase; however, we haven't purchased very much. The idea of having to spend all this money upfront for furniture items to start our new place is somewhat daunting, especially since we don't own very much furniture right now. Nevertheless, we have come to grips that this needs to be done.

So, this weekend we focused on purchasing our major furniture items. We like to thank Erin's dad for letting us borrow his car for the weekend to transport a majority of these items. Our list consisted of 16 items, i.e., two dresser drawers, coffee table/toy storage, couch, crib, daybed w/ trundle bed, convertible car seat, high chair, kitchen table, etc.

We were very successful by getting our list down to only five items and three of them can be purchased next week online. We successfully used Craigslist, KSL (online classifieds) and IKEA to purchase a majority of the items. Below are two pictures of a couple items we really like.

A Crib for Kherington
We decided we couldn't let our daughter sleep in a Pack 'n Play for the rest of her life...and what's the first thing she did in it? Why, stand up of course. We had it at the highest level thinking it would be fine, but she proved us wrong...it got lowered to the next level.

New 27" iMac
You might be thinking we already had an iMac; however, I was able to return our old one when I heard about the new ones coming out.

This weekend was very successful. We are grateful to get a lot checked off our list of major items to purchase.