Isn’t The 8th Year Anniversary Gift Wood?
After 8 years of marriage we finally agreed on bedroom furniture. Is this progress or what?
We spent Labor Day weekend looking around a furniture outlet store in the middle of some podunk town in Illinois that several people directed us to after we’d exhausted all the local big town retail stores. The interesting thing about this outlet store is that it wasn’t just one building in the middle of two cornfields, it was 7 silo barns each connected to another that stretched to the length of 7 football fields.
Imagine spending your holiday weekend walking through these barns with a 6 year old boy and a 31 year old man who didn’t want to be there? Oh, add in the fact that there was no air conditioning and the bedroom furniture was in the very last building of course.
The choices were overwhelming inside this place. They carried every style including one that I referred to as the “California drug dealer ring style” - which was over-the-top metal scrolls with gold accents and mirrors above the bed. I might have said this out loud as we walked the football field with the employee helping us. Turns out she owns that bed and Nate got a chance to flash me the, “I can’t believe you just said that” look of his.
I made up for it later by suggesting we purchase a 4 poster knob bed that had metal rails at the headboard, because I could tie him up easier. Again, my humor was not appreciated.
Eventually we found two bedroom sets that we agreed on (MIRACLE!), but we were looking for a bed and two tall dressers. We didn’t want a nightstand and we didn’t need a dresser with a mirror. So that meant we’d need to special order our furniture and any day we’ll get to remember which of those two sets we decided upon since neither of us recalls at this point.
For our entire married life we’ve only had a mattress set and the basic metal frame below. No headboard. No matching dressers. Now we have emerged as married adults with real furniture. Not just any furniture though, this is furniture that matches!
Happy Anniversary Nate! Maybe for our 10 year anniversary we can get real drinking glasses instead of the plastic cup collection.
Happy Anniversary! We have the metal frame under bed thing… but it’s more of a space/safety issue for us! I’m so clumsy I can still hurt myself on just the metal frame, not footboard for me please!
We do have matching nightstands…. but brought our old dressers with us!
OH I feel your pain. My husband complains that our furniture doesn’t match either. It doesnt help that I point out to him that he doesn’t want to spend a cent on getting new stuff either. With our big move coming up in the next 12 months, theres little point in buying new stuff seeing as we’ll just be buying new stuff when we get overseas. Plus I’ll be the one picking it - because aside from moaning all the time - he also has no taste!
This was so funny..I could feel the tension as I read it..husbands are all the same it’s torture to them when we shop…
Congragulations on the purchase and your anniversary…
Dorothy from grammology
I’ll be waiting for the pictures. Are you saying you didn’t get the mirror over the bed?
Congratulations on your anniversary and your adult furniture :0 )
We’ll be married 10 years next month. I did try for a diamond ring but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen lol
Yup, it’s progress. Though we can all admit that we are officially middle-aged when we begin keeping tabs on our milestones (anniversaries, birthdays, etc.) with changes in interior decorating…be it bed room sets or new fabric on the sofa. Happy Anniversary to you!