Pimp my apartment

So as many of you know, we have been living a "poor newlywed" lifestyle since we were married. What we have been doing is figuring out how much money we can live off to maximize our savings. We found out that we can live off $1,000 a paycheck. It is not always easy, sometimes we end up eating Ramen and Macaroni for the last week until our next paycheck comes, but we aren't starving =) So all the money that we make over $1,000 a paycheck goes into our savings, it's not very much money but after a year or so it really added up.

Now that we had some money we decided to get some new furniture. We had been thinking about it for a while, but when I came across some new furniture at Costco, I knew that we had found what we were looking for.

We ended up getting: a couch, an entertainment center, 2 tv's (we no longer have a borrowed one), an ottoman, a desk, a bed (frame not mattress), 2 nightstands, a chest of drawers, and a dresser (that is currently being stored at mom and dad's because we have no room). Wow that actually sounds like a ton of stuff after I write it all out. So anyways we saved between $3,000-$5,000 getting everything at Costco!

So my favorite part of the whole thing was the cheap price. My second favorite thing is my new tv's, a 32"(bedroom) and 47"(living room)! My 3rd favorite thing is our cool bedroom set, our drawers that are the kind that close automatically the last 2 inches =) I also really like having a bedroom again, instead of our "Studio apartment with huge closet" as Jim so elequently put it.

The only thing we really don't have that we used to was our dining room table (which we haven't used in a year). This is the couch that we had to end up lifting on to our balcony (after I removed a rail), to get it in the apartment.

So anyways our apartment is now officially "pimp" =) And a very big THANK YOU goes out to Dad and Ryan for helping us move all of it. There is now way we could have done it without you! Especially that couch! Looks like we can't move for a while =)