Decluttering and Food Report

This has been such a good week so far. I have been on the lookout for a bed for the small guestroom and came so close to buying new, then something in my head stopped me, plus a big part of my prefers to recycle and purchase used.

I really wanted something IKEA as I love the style but we don't have one here...sadly. Closest one is in my hometown which is 900 miles away. So I went on kijiji.ca (.com in the US) and stumbled upon an ad where someone was selling an IKEA metal day bed with slatted bed & foam mattress, a beautiful floor lamp and side table for $125. I went online and looked at the prices for everything and if I worked it out including shipping this entire purchase would have been about $400!!! I picked it up this morning and the furniture was immaculate, as was the mattress. The girl lived at home and was moving out and the house was impecably clean. It looked like she had just bought it. So I didn't even barter with her which I normally do, I just gave her the money. I had a budget of about $250 for this so I was thrilled!!!

Because I was able to now put a night table in the second guestroom (I was using a grungy old computer table covered with a blanket I had found somewhere), I can now give away the computer table. I also didn't have a lamp in that second guestroom so..voila! I needed everything.

Woodstove insert is being installed tomorrow, so we're selling the fireplace grate and screen and also selling the airbed we had in the small guestroom. We also posted our old pedestal sink with faucet which we replaced earlier this year with a nice vessel sink. So if we sell everything, we get most of the money back for the guestrooms' furniture. Gee, I was so excited about that! Spring cleaning is good for something isn't it? I realized I have tons of bedsheets and duvet covers we no longer use as well, so I might just sell them in a bundle for cheap. If I sewed I might have even used them for something. :(

We headed over to a bargain store where they had special toothpaste on sale for 99 cents but they ran out..I was there Saturday and they had run out then too. Manager said they'd get more this week but apparently they are now out of them for good at that price. Oh well. I also found 4.4lbs  bags of sugar for 99 cents so I bought three but will pick up more as I was on foot. This will get me through my jam making season. I found some ramen noodles (5/$1) which is a good price, here they are usually 4/$1 at the cheapest place. Since I had stocked up on cheap ramen noodles last month, I only bought two packages. My sweetie doesn't like them and I don't eat them often as they aren't exactly healthy. I did eat some tonight with veggies and fresh ginger. mmmmm. I had a craving for them.

I loved having a day off, felt good to get things done! Off to the kitchen to see what else I can bake to get rid of things I don't need anymore. The clutter is diminishing..finally!

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