If you are like me, you probably have a little bit of a “used furniture” anxiety. If you are anything like I am, you have been there, done that, or are about to do that. You have seen these pieces of furniture sitting on your floor, in your closet, in the garage, in the basement, or in your favorite room. You want to love them! You want to use them so much! But, you don’t.
No, I did not.
I’m not sure if it is really a case of anxiety, but it is a case of not wanting to hurt your furniture. The fear is that you will break a piece that you love and ruin your life. It’s possible that, when you become an owner of a piece, you will break it, but there is no feeling of joy in being stuck with something that you don’t like.
This is not to say that you are never allowed to make any room in your house the best it can be. You can decorate your home to the max, but you are never allowed to overdo it. If you do, you will become an extreme case of a person with poor self-awareness. If you have any sense of self-awareness, you will know you shouldnt overdo it. This is actually one of the biggest differences between us.
When I first moved into my new home, I had to get rid of all the stuff I had in the house. I had a lot of stuff, and I knew that I only had a month or so before I had to move out. So I did what we all do and bought some new furniture. It was a huge shock to me, and to my house, because I didnt expect to be able to do this.
But even if I had my money, I still wanted to do this for myself. I don’t care what the people who own the house are doing, they are doing it for themselves. So when I get an opportunity to do this, I have to pay my bills and buy a new car.
That’s the problem with buying used furniture. It’s not that you can’t afford it. It’s that you feel you can’t afford it. I bought a car, and I had to ask for a loan to drive it. It’s the same as buying a house in New York. You think you can live in a place for the rest of your life because you can afford it. Then you find out you can’t.
The problem is when you have nothing to sell for, or you have no money for what you’re offered, then you have no money to buy stuff in return. You get a little more money than you would if you were getting a house. That’s the problem. When you have no money to buy things in return, you’ve got no money to pay for what you’ve got to pay for goods in return.
Buy stuff in stores. Or get it through the mail. Or go to a yard sale. Or make a deal with a friend. Or make a deal with a stranger. Or go to a pawn shop, or a garage sale. Or get a job. And if you want to find a way to pay for it, you might be able to do that. But if you cant, then you cant. If you cant pay for it, you cant.