Wham bam sofa man

So when I got separated Ali took the sleeper sofa and oversized leather chair we had in the great room.  I wound up replacing it with a used sofa and love seat I bought from Craigslist for a whopping $200.  The set was well used and had some warts but I have been fond of it regardless as it was pretty much the first thing I bought once I embarked into post marriage life.  I have always had intentions to eventually replace the Craigslist sofas but I just haven’t pulled the trigger, until yesterday.

Cindy had mentioned how she saw some good sales on Rooms to Go sofa pairs over the weekend.  Yesterday she stopped in at the local store and checked one of them out, sending me the picture on the left.  Well seeing her happy face while reclining on the sofa was enough to trigger an impulse buy.  I told her to buy it, saying it would be nice to have the new set for our Super Bowl party we are hosting this weekend.

By the time I got home one of the two old sofas was already out of the house, Cindy’s daughter was happy to take possession of the old stuff.  She will come get the bigger sofa hopefully today.  It seemed weird to have the sudden change in seating arrangements, something that was not even in the ballpark of my intentions 24 hours earlier. The new stuff is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow.  It will be nice to have some decent furniture that will be a better fit for the massive flooring upgrades we completed last year.

Timing-wise the purchase is not ideal.  The past several months I have spent a bunch of dough.  Cindy’s daughter’s boyfriends car is getting the door fixed that I backed into as we speak and I have another potential 4 digit expenditure that is on the horizon as well.  Luckily my income will allow me to stabilize things if I can get through a couple months of normal spending.  Lately it just seems like the normal up and downstream flow of dollars has been consistently in the downward direction.