Craiglist how I love (and hate) thee

I hate furniture stores. I love to look, but seriously, those prices? They are ridiculous with capital letters. We still have a lot of furnishing to do in our home but with a 3 year old boy in the house nothing stays nice for very long. I just can't spend 2,000 bucks on a piece of furniture that's going to looked trashed in 6 months. That's why I love Craigslist. I bought this small buffet for 40 bucks knowing full well that I was going to refinish it. It's solid wood opposed to the cheap junk they sell in the stores and just the right size for the space. When we brought it home my husband noticed that two of the legs were so badly damaged that they had to be removed. A gallon jug of putty wouldn't have fixed them.

So here's where my hatred of Craigslist comes in. Had I known that the legs were damaged I would have offered less money for the piece. Ok, okay, I maybe should have looked it over a little more but the lady was standing right there. I assumed that she would tell me any major problems. It was never mentioned in the correspondence we had either. Not really a big issue because we just went to Lowe's and picked out some new ones. Better ones.

So #1 Sellers : Be honest about the condition of your items!! Perhaps she was taking on the 'don't ask don't tell' policy :)

#2: If you really want to sell something from your home, get rid of all crap around it first. Just sayin...

I put the final coat of poly on a few minutes ago. All that's left is to spray paint the hardware and then move it on in. All in all it was a pretty painless process. Did I mention it's been in the garage since May? And it may or may not be November now. Oops. I get reminded all the time. And my reminder to the hubs is you can work on basically anything you want uninterrupted for long periods of time. I cannot. My kids must have put an invisible bell around my neck because the minute I stepped outside to work on it one of them would follow me within 2 minutes.

It was an awful honey color but now much better. Here's a small peak...