Great deal!

So, just to see how I'm doing, I pulled up my goals post last night.

I am about halfway on everything (as far as getting things done).

But we did get one HUGE goal accomplished - it was not posted for May goals, as I didn't know when we'd be able to do it.

Here it is:

We got a brand new couch!

Robert has been admiring it at Fred Meyer while Ashley and I went to Wyoming to pick up Olivia from school. He pointed it out when we went grocery shopping after I got back home. The price was a bit steep for my liking - $389.99. Even though it was 50% off of the sticker price (about $600), which was already marked down from $1000.00ish.

So, we asked if it was the last one left, and were told (after some checking) that no, they had another in the back. Sigh. We knew they wouldn't sell it until it was the last one. The important thing to note is that we wanted to purchase the floor model.

Three times since that day we went back to Fred Meyer, asking each time if it was the last one. Finally, we got someone who told us to talk to the manager of that department the next day when she was in. At that time, the couch was marked down again to $319.99.

Since Robert was working that day, I went in myself on my way home from work. I located the manager, and offered to get the couch out of there that day if she would give it to me for a discounted rate. We negotiated on that for a bit, but because she's the manager, she could make the final decision on taking that particular couch (floor model) out. (And I knew that).

She told me she'd sell it for $100, as it had a 50% off clearance price on the tag. She then retracted that statement, saying that she didn't realize that discount had already been applied (darn!), but said if I could get it out today, she'd definitely sell it to me for $150 + tax.

I made my husband a very happy man when I texted him to say that I talked her down to the price I did, and that it was coming home that day. :)

So what does that mean for our old couch?

Well, it was technically my grandparents' couch, and is 10 years old. It is currently on Craigslist, and will be sold in our garage sale in a couple of weeks if it doesn't sell online. We're also considering selling the coffee table and end table in the living room and replacing it with my 3-legged round table by the china cabinet, and the silver/ glass coffee table I have in the rafters of the garage, instead of just selling that silver/glass coffee table in the garage sale. But we'll see.  

Yay for great finds and deals!