Furniture....furniture...how I do loathe furniture....

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

All right. Quick little intro thingie- I just moved here from Upstate NY a little more than a week ago with little more than clothes, my computer and boundless optimism.

Note: No furniture.

Now that I've gotten settled in a bit more- found gainful employment, etc. etc., I've figured that it's time to make my apartment look a bit more like home.

This involves buying furniture.

So I come to you, O Long-Established Ones, a lowly supplicant at the feet of your boundless knowledge:

Where can I find decent furniture (a full/queen mattress, a chest of drawers) for a decent price without having to go to the far ends of the earth?

I've looked on Craigslist, but a lot of the cheap stuff there is way the hell out of the city, and as I have no car, mildly impossible to get to.

Any advice?

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[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

Bob's discount furniture (for mattresses only, their furniture is dreadful) and Ikea are right near each other--rent a car for the day.

For $100, Ikea will deliver pretty much an apartment's worth of stuff to cambridge--I forget the exact details. Something like "12 units" where a couch counted as 2 units) You can't do this delivery method online (the online delivery is crapexpensive). I'd check out Ikea.com first of course to see if you like the style.

Or, you could rent a uhaul for the day and do the same.

bobs mattress question

[jforlizzi.livejournal.com]

dear sir / mam: how do u like ur bobs mattress? thinking of getting one and i'm worried that it might be too cheap....pls advise how your experience w/ it has been....thx