• http://www.facebook.com/imjeffp Jeffrey Phillips

    Feeling conflicted about buying IKEA?

    • http://blurbomat.com/ blurb

      Not in the least. 

      However, I’m not going to buy the $8000 leather sectional I saw today. 

      • http://justlikeaslattery.wordpress.com/ Susan

        Here are my thoughts on $8000 sectionals and other expensive niceties: buy something you love that you can afford and get it over with. One way or the other, you’re going to have to live with it, and if you end up selling it, it’s easier to sell a great one than a crappy one. If you end up having to live with it, you don’t want to sit on the spite sofa for the next umpty-ump years. 

        You get what you pay for (and this advice is free). 

        I love it when you post. 

  • Anne Wiebe

    Who really needs an expensive couch, anyway?! I have always bought mine secondhand — well, almost all my furniture is secondhand. Really, you can pay any amount, down to ZERO, for furniture. Freecycle rules!

    Does this building contain your new home, maybe?

    • http://blurbomat.com/ blurb

      Define expensive. I kid!

      This building most definitely does not house my new home. The building pictured is the LDS church headquarters. They don’t rent space. 

      • http://www.facebook.com/monica.bielanko Monica Bielanko

         They just rent souls.  For life.

      • P T

         In City Creek maybe?

  • Disq2079

    I hope you will let yourself splurge enough to create a great environment for the kids. Reading what you wrote about feeling like stranger in your own home was heartbreaking, it seems like it would be good for you to have a place to spend time with them where you can feel truly at home.

    Kids don’t care one bit about $8k leather sectionals though, so sadly this can’t be used to rationalize that purchase :)

  • Slwatkins

    This would look cool with a colorized gradient map from LR too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Amy-Jacobs/590861439 Amy Jacobs

    I wasn’t aware furniture could be vindictive…well, ok, maybe at $8,000 range it might be a little : ).

    Buy something you like Jon…honestly, after that house has been made over from stem to stern the past two years. DO NOT feel guilty…buy something good quality and that makes YOU happy! Oh, and that won’t get dog hair or puke on it finally, LOL!!! ; )

  • Diane McGee Hardin

    I like today’s affirmation a lot.

  • Kristen Romano

    I just spit Diet Dr. Pepper out of my nose when I read your affirmation.  Dear Lord.  Non-vindictive furniture.  Priceless.