Shopping Fun in Naples - Day 1

Monday the 28th

Today I finished hand scrubbing the guest bath floor and guest bedroom floors, then we went shopping for furniture. We had decided to get a couple of new love seats for the living room, new TV for the living room (move the old TV into the Guest bedroom and get rid of the other TV that didn’t work), replace the TV table, replace the coffee table, new end tables and lamps, bedside tables and lamps for the master, a new night stand, mirrors for the bedrooms and bathrooms, storage cabinets for the bathrooms and a new fridge.

Fortunately I had budgeted for all this because originally we were looking at a newly re-furbished condo with nothing except appliances. Even though we had a functioning fridge, we had it on the highest setting and it was not very cold. The freezer would barely keep ice frozen and at least one steak we had for 2 days went bad and had to be thrown out. We decided that this wasn’t a good situation so replacing the fridge became a priority.

We decided to start our shopping at consignment stores and places like Target, JC Penny’s and such. Over the next few days we ended up checking out other places like “Rooms to Go” and Pier One Imports. We bought one mirror, found a place to sell our stuff and took a couple of business cards. But even though we spent pretty much all day shopping, we mostly just looked, not being in a big rush.