Awesome Neighbors!

My neighbors are awesome! Within the first two weeks of living here, they have given us vegetables from their garden, let us borrow tools, offered to let my dog use their grass until our sod is installed, and helped me get a new job!! Seriously! There was a position open where my neighbor works and he put in a good word for me. I showed up with my resume, they interviewed me on the spot, and I got the job! I mentioned in an earlier blog, back in June, that I had gotten a new job. That one was just a retail job I was working until I found a "real" one. I am so excited to finally work normal hours and to have holidays paid off again! I used to be in banking so I got spoiled. Going back to retail has been tough. The job was super fun but the pay and the hours were lame! I did give two week's notice so I don't start my new job until September 10th. I went in yesterday to do my new-hire paperwork and I was given a tour and I got to meet a lot of the people who work there. Everyone there seems so nice and I am super excited!

This job has come at a perfect time too! It is great to not only be celebrating our new house but to be celebrating the new job! We are still having issues with our condo air conditioning and won't be able to rent it out until that gets addressed. We also need to get in there and paint and have the carpet replaced but that is hard to do when it is 80 degrees in there! This means we will have two mortgages for awhile. Thankfully our first mortgage payment on the new house isn't due until October 1st. Having a better paying job is definitely relieving some stress financially. We have bought so much stuff for the new house and the list of things we need seems to keep growing!

I swear that I am working on getting some pictures posted on here! Are you guys on the edge of your seats yet? Ha ha! I will post one for Jesse and Lisa since they bought the same fridge as us. So here it is in our kitchen!

Appliance and Furniture Purchases! Great Deals!

We close on our house two weeks from tomorrow so I have been doing a ton of research recently on appliances. I already knew that I wanted the LG front-load washer and dryer and a GE Profile refrigerator to match the rest of my kitchen appliances. I've been looking around at different stores to find the best price. We got an even better deal than we ever expected and had a great salesperson. Most of you may not know it, but stores will price-match other stores and sometimes they will even take 10% off the price from the other store to encourage you to buy from them.

We went to HHGregg because they had the fancy new fridge I wanted for several hundred dollars less than everywhere else. This fridge is normally $2999.99 but is on sale at Best Buy and Home Depot for $2699. HHGregg has it on sale right now for $2429.18 and even though it doesn't usually apply to such a great sale, they gave us the 10% military discount too! So we got a $3000 fridge for $2186.26!!! It's super fancy and has an LCD screen with some pretty cool features! I wasn't seeking out a fridge with an LCD screen because I'm pretty sure I don't need it but the cost of this fridge was about the same as the one without it. I also love that the ice-maker is on the inside of the door so it doesn't take up valued fridge space. I've been dreaming about owning a french-door refrigerator for as long as I can remember and that dream is coming true! Here's it is!

Model # PFE29PSDSS
I'm in love!

The side of the fridge is gray, in case you were curious.

I love how there are shelves on the inside of both doors even though the ice maker is on the left side! 

The washer and dryer we purchased are normally $1200 a piece. HHGregg is having a great sale on them and after our military discount, they were only $854.33 a piece! Because they were such a great price, we decided to get the pedestals too! I was going to have my hubby build me a fancy pedestal that holds laundry baskets in it to save us some money but I really wanted the ones that match the washer and dryer and he really didn't want to build me one! So we both win! They are normally $250 a piece and HHGregg gave them to us for $189.99 a piece! That's still a lot for a pedestal, I realize that, but that's what you pay for convenience, I guess! Here they are:

The brand is LG and the color is called Graphite Steel. Model # WM3470HVA & DLEX3470V
This was the only picture I could find of them together!

We had a really great experience at HHGregg today. Not only did they give us such a great deal on all three appliances, but they also took 20% of the cost of the service plans for each one. The washer and fridge both have a $50 mail-in rebate as well so that's another $100 of savings! HHGregg normally only offers 12 months financing but we told them we needed at least 24 since we are buying so much for our new house. Our salesperson asked his manager and he said it was no problem! They were both so professional and thanked my husband for his service. I seriously recommend this store to any of you who are still shopping around for appliances. If you live in the Columbus area, our salesperson was Justin Coffman at the Easton location - he told me to put his name in my blog :) He is super knowledgeable. He knows everything there is about the fridge and washer and dryer we purchased.

Ashley Furniture is just across the street from HHGregg so we decided to go in there and look around. I picked out the morning room set I wanted a long time ago but I like to check-in from time to time to make sure they still have it and to see if it's on sale. We weren't going to buy it today but it was the cheapest I have seen it in the past 4 months. We bought a table with a leaf in it that seats eight since our morning room is over 19ft long. We bought all eight chairs, the matching buffet, and two matching bar stools for our kitchen island.

The table and chairs. 

We only purchased the bottom half of the buffet. I want to hang a picture or a mirror above it. It looks so much prettier in person. It's darker. This picture doesn't do it justice at all!

Both together

We bought eight of these dining chairs

We bought two bar stools for the gourmet island

La-Z-Boy called us yesterday to tell us that our furniture and artwork are ready for delivery! Perfect timing! You can read my blog entry about that furniture HERE. We also have our eye on a set for our formal dining room but that will have to wait! I blogged about it a while back. You can find that entry HERE. We are just spending so much money right now and we still have to purchase 6 ceiling fans, a backup for our sump pump, a dehumidifier.....the list goes on and on! Whoever knew that buying a new house was so expensive? ;)

We close on our house on Monday, August 6th. We get the keys on Tuesday August 7th. We have our La-Z-Boy furniture, Ashley furniture, and appliances from HHGregg all scheduled to be delivered on Saturday, August 11th. That's going to be a crazy busy day!