process

i just bought this dress.

on sale. from $228 to $59.95. yippee!

i am deliriously happy about it.

i love getting a good deal!

this is how the bf and i approach every major (not that there have been that many to date, but you know, furnishing an empty apartment kind of includes some bigger purchases).

i usually know what i want. the getting it, however, takes a bit more time. when i find a dining table that i like, say, a saarinen round dining table, i know that giving the bf the actual retail price would cause heart palpitations.

so, i do my research. i find similar tables, knock-offs. ikea. i put spreadsheets together. pros and cons. sample swatches. i ramble off alternatives and pricing options and justifications to the bf (along the lines of "and when we get the real dining table we want, we can still use this table as a funky bedside table!"), and thus, i end up getting a perfectly functional (yet still totally my style) table for $70. yeah. we found it on craigslist.

i kind of love that, no matter how much or how little we have, we will always make do. and will make do wonderfuly.