Treasure Hunting!!

Like most of you out there, I love a bargain. When Micah first moved down here, he happened to look at a new & used furniture store as he was attempting to furnish his bachelor apartment. He totally scored and found this 6 month old Italian brand leather couch in perfect condition, for $250! We think it will be perfect in a library someday, which is a luxury we would both love to have in our house someday.

In lieu of the library, we've dropped into used book stores and Salvation Army stores to look for old books and have found some cool ones! We got a red leather bound with gold print Lord of the Rings (all 4 books in 1) for $12.50, plus some other older looking books and books we've read before (including good condition hard cover Harry Potter #6 for 49 cents! we have 6 & 7 and now we're on the hunt for the rest) And while we're in the store anyways, we've found some great bargains for the rest of the house! Here's the spoils from our little treasure hunts:

Cool vintage looking lamp that works: $4.99 (plus we live in an apartment that doesn't have any light fixtures in the living room nor bedroom, so we LOVE lamps!


Micah got a practically brandnew Callaway Golf Bag (that means nothing to me, nor most of you out there, but if you watch golf on TV, you'll see the pros' caddies carrying those)

A BRANDNEW Prince tennis triple racket holder, tags still on, could only find it online for $40, but we got it for: $2.99! (a new favorite hobby, by the way. You should try playing!!)

These fun little bar stools for the 'breakfast bar' (kind of) for $4 each!


We haven't spent much effort on buying real decorations, we figured we'd wait til we actually have a house. But in the meantime, we've found these shelves/trinkets for $1-$3 each. It helps it feel a little bit more homey/organize clutter while we're in an apartment!



Luckily, we found this big mirror for $20. It's a few feet by a few feet, which is great, because otherwise we'd have a lot of white wall space!!