I'm excited to get some REAL furniture. I have basically lived without much furniture for the last 9 years since leaving my H & moving across the country. I basically left everything except for a few pieces of furniture. I have a friend from church who is in her 80's & has been living in a care facility for almost a year now. Several of us from the church under her POA, have started to clean out her house. We had a yard sale the weekend before last & tied it in with the 127 yard sale that happens annually. She has a lot of really NICE furniture. I do have my own bed, but wanted to get her bedroom set for my spare bedroom so if I get my house cleaned up, I can actually have a place for guests to sleep besides on the floor or in my bed with me & my dogs. All the furniture is made of solid wood (the kind of furniture I always bought when I was married)......so NOW I have to clean out that bedroom & clean the carpet.

I am also buying a beautiful old chest of drawers that was actually her great-grandparents.......it's REALLY old but love the style. It's huge & up on 4 legs that are about a 1 1/2 feet off the floor with really large deep drawers. I'm going to use that in MY own bedroom & move the old clunky pressed wood one I brought home when a friend of mine was moving & down sizing. It was better than nothing at that time.

Also getting this really nice wooden table that has a drawer.

Several years ago, I stopped by a furniture store, looking for a recliner. I found one that fit me (short me with short legs). I had walked in at closing time not realizing it. I took the paper for the loan it would take (12 months same as cash) but when I got home, I decided that I really didn't want to spend the money at that time & that my other priorities were so much higher need for the money so I never bothered to get it.......well, she has a beautiful color deep red recliner (love the color & the fit is perfect) that I am getting & the last thing is a wonderful chest freezer for the basement. I have so much stuff in the freezer of my refrig that sometimes I forget what's in it & then I don't use what I have before buying more food & there are some times when I can't even get the freezer door closer. I think this will help me be a lot more organized also.

Well needless to say.....every room of my house that is getting this furniture needs to be cleaned out, clean the carpet & get organized but that's the incentive to get it done now to make a place for REAL furniture. I honestly think that's been part of my problem with cleaning because I really haven't felt like I living in the house anyway without real furniture to live on. So.....I'm going to be pushing myself to get all the work done so my friends from church can help me move the furniture into my house. Much of it is going upstairs (they are going to hate me for that.....but I will have it cleaned up & ready for when the weather cools down & they will be able to move the furniture in.

Going through her house & her basement was like going through a museum. There is a kitchen unit in the basement that has one of the old flower sifters. You open the door & they would pour in the flour from those huge old flour bags & then as needed they would sift it out. If I had money to just buy fun stuff, I would go for it, but what hasn't sold, we have a local auction that's going to be selling the rest of what we didn't sell in the yard sale. The guy that runs the auction does it also online at the same time the auction is going on live friday evenings here in our little town. He has quite a system set up. We are trying to get the maximum amount of money for the things she has because that is what is going to be paying for the care facility she is in for the rest of her life. She has no family left any more other than a few aunts here & there around the country. I am actually glad to be able to buy the furniture to know that the money I am paying is going for a good purpose to help my friend.

I have actually been blessed by having the chance to visit her weekly at the care facility & we also do a church service monthly there which is open to everyone who wants to come. I have been so blessed by meeting some of the most wonderful people who are in that facility & can truly say they have touched my heart as we have touched theirs.