Best place to buy cheap furniture for first time buyers?
Friday, February 5th, 2010 at
9:35 pm
I cant buy really expensive furniture. Right now I need…
Dining Chairs
Entertainment center
2 Dressers
Coffee Table, end table(s)
2-4 nightstands
And only have 900$ to spend atm.
Tagged with: atm • coffee table • dressers • entertainment center • furniture • nightstands
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Hands down the best place is garage sales! (NOT estate sales..those are invariably overpriced)
Right now, almost everything in my home is from a garage sale…and I saved THOUSANDS of dollars furnishing it!
I picked up an entire living room suite- sofa, 2 stuffed chairs, coffee table and 2 end tables – for $50 at one garage sale in really good condition. At another I got a terrific wooden entertainment center for 20 bucks. My cherry nightstands cost me five dollars apiece. I got the matching cherry dressers (one highboy and one 6-drawer/mirror long dresser) for 15.00/each. They were in perfect condition, too. I still have a beautiful Victorian chair I bought six years ago that had been newly recovered (they hated the result, but I thought it looked awesome) I got for 5.00!
I even got a portable dishwasher for 10 dollars one time. I had to roll it home down the sidewalk because I didn’t have a truck, but I didn’t care… it worked! I guarantee it: you can get absolutely ANYTHING at garage sales for pennies on the dollar.
NEVER pay the price they ask! Always dicker it down. The best time to go is the last day of the garage sale because they really want to get rid of this stuff and are willing to take just about any money you come in with. A good trick is to always bring cash and separate it into sections in different pockets so the seller never sees how much you really have. Then they are more likely to sell it to you at the price you offer.
If they want 10 bucks take out the portion that has say, five or eight or dollars and hold it out to them and say "this is what I have and I can take it off your hands". If they want 15.00 then assemble (out of sight) no more than 12.00. They don’t know you have more money stashed on you and will assume this is all they are going to get.
If you just watch your local newspaper & move around from one garage sale to another you can find practically anything for almost nothing. I’ll bet you can get everything on your list and end up paying no more than 100 bucks total.
Garage sales are a lot of fun – especially if you go with a friend
Craigslist.com
Visit your local Goodwill Store..sometimes they have bargains..
1) Ikea
2) Ebay
3) Ashley Furtniture
4) Walmart
ikea?
IKEA…IKEA…IKEA if you want new stuff
Local thrift store.Goodwill or salvation army store many times these places will have quality furniture At reasonable prices .They won’t be perfect but is much better than "cheap" furniture.Oh,for that amount you can get lots!
ikea can be pricey try good will salvation army and in your newspaper(s) look in classafides also target and wal mart have nice items too also moving and yard sales can be good
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