New Couches!

Can't believe it but we finally bought new couches. To be perfectly honest, I felt bad getting rid of the old ones. Inanimate objects have feelings too you know? :) At least that's how I felt as a little kid. I can still remember when my Dad was selling our boat because he was buying a new one and I felt so bad for the old boat. Now really, I'm not crazy and I don't really think the couches are sad :) BUT for sentimental reasons it was kinda sad to see them go. They were our first couches as a married couple. In our first apartment, we lived in the basement of a house and it was tiny, and except for our crazy landlord, it was so fabulous and so happy even though we were in such a little space. I told Dan at the time it was silly to buy nice/new or even more expensive used couches when we wouldn't be staying there forever. I think this part of me surprised Dan initially in our marriage. I have just always felt strongly against thinking you need to have "EVERYTHING" nice and new and perfect the first couple years of marriage. You aren't. You get to work together and slowly acquire things as you can. It has meant SO much more to us to work for everything we have and purchase our own furniture slowly over time. Makes us appreciate the effort it took to get them. So sadly our cute/old little green couches were starting to break and we had been setting money aside so we could pay cash for new ones. It happened at the perfect time and we got a great deal on them at Ashley Furniture. We love them, our living room is now the "couch room." It was such an exciting purchase, and they are totally me and my style, Leather that has an antique look to it.