Egg Chair

Somehow I have found myself in a circle of friends who are very thrifty. They aren't cheap. They are just really good at finding deals and very good at not succumbing to impulse buys. You'd think, if you know anything about my mother, that I would be the same way. But nooooo. My sister got it, but it skipped over me. I'm impulsive, think more expensive is better and lose patience quickly when searching for deals. In fact, the last time I needed shoes, Susan did all the searching on Zappo's to find me some since I got overwhelmed immediately.

These same friends seems to have an amazing ability to get stuff free. Pianos, play structures, toys. They get them either from Craigslist or, and my mother would be proud, the side of the street.

For the last year or so, I've been eying this chair that looks like an egg and spins around at Ikea. It was not cheap and since really unnecessary, I hadn't bought it. Then one of my friends got the chair for very cheap on Craigslist. Then a few weeks later, my other friend actually bought it full price at Ikea. I was shocked. And happy. If she, who finds a $200+ wooden toy house on the side of the road for free and who has a huge play structure that she got for free in her backyard, could actually just buy it, so could I. So I did. As you can see, it causes both joy and heartache.