What Do I Want Most?

I signed the lease on my new apartment yesterday. Moving day is May 18th. And I want/need some new furniture. Need a dining room set and want a bed frame. And of course the ones I want add up to a lovely $2350. Which I could afford but I’d have to be very, very stringent about not buying anything else for the next couple months (which is completely doable, I just need to consistantly remind myself that those things are what I want most). I also want a pink Kitchenaid mixer (which I’ve wanted for about 5 years now, you know before I even had a kitchen…), so it also goes in the what I want most pile.

I had been considering a $300 dining room set from Target and it’s really cute but my mom is concerned that it’s cheaply made and will fall apart in a couple years. Which leads me to the one I really like which is about $1500 for the table and 4 chairs. It would potentially last me the rest of my life (though someday I may need more chairs, and the table does have leaves to allow for the use of more chairs with it). So I guess I just need to ponder for a few weeks about whether or not I should make that sort of investment at this point in my life.

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