That’s a lot of Fs! But certainly not the only F words that were uttered this weekend!
The goal of the weekend was to get a refrigerator. I had pretty much written off finding something used when I found out about a 3 year old Kenmore stainless steel side by side for sale for $125 in the next town over. We went and bought it, drove it home in my tiny Nissan pickup, bribed my friend Mark into helping us get it inside the house, and then… discovered that it was too big. Despite the fact that it fit into our space (we learned from the bathroom vanity debacle to always double-check measurements), the left-hand door couldn’t open all the way:
Which really sucked because it looked fabulous in my kitchen:
A testament to the power of craigslist: We realized the fridge was too big at 8 PM, and someone had come and bought it from me for $75 more than I paid by 10 AM the next day. So, it sucked that we couldn’t keep this nice fridge that we got a fabulous deal on…but at least I made some money off the deal.
It was pouring rain all day Saturday, which meant Adam couldn’t make cuts on the Pergo flooring I was planning on installing (the electricity’s still messed up, so we could only use the saw outside), so we went refrigerator shopping. We went to two Home Depot stores, two Lowes stores, Best Buy, and two Sears stores. We finally got one at the last place we went to, the second Lowes. We had decided on a single door fridge at this point—I love the French door fridges but was worried we’d still have trouble opening the left hand door, even on a smaller fridge. So, we got this fridge:
It’s normally $599, but we’d seen it at Best Buy for $559, and Lowe’s said they’d beat the price (and they didn’t even bother to check if we were telling the truth!). But they were also having a 15% off Energy Star sale, which this fridge qualified for, and with my dad’s military discount, we scored the fridge, an ice maker for it, and the hose it needed, for $498, including taxes. I love being a smart shopper (even though $500 is still a LOT of freaking money…ahh!) It’s a great fridge for the price, though, and the price includes free delivery, which Home Depot and Sears don’t offer.
Once we were done fridge shopping, we attempted to put together our new Ikea bed frame…and Adam accidentally broke a critical piece of the frame on the third step because the opposite side was defective. It was a $300 bed frame so we’re pretty upset—going to see if they’ll take it back or if we can repair it somehow…
Today we completed the installation of the floor in the living room and hallway, and let me just say that it looks FABULOUS.
We just need to put the trim back on the walls and touch up some paint and the room will be ready to move stuff into. I need to replace the doors at some point too.
Oh, and I painted the bathroom after work this week. The color is Sherwin Williams Rock Candy:
I’ll do expenses and other miscellany in a separate post, because this one is getting to be longer than Stairway to Heaven.
E, everything is looking AWESOME!
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