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?

Comments

Mattress Advice

[ex-mbraude.livejournal.com]

My sister gave me some really good advice for buying a mattress. First, all mattress prices are negotiable. The markup on mattresses are amazing - those things cost them at most a couple hundred bucks, but they try and turn around and sell them for much more. Second, 1-800-mattres almost always has the best prices on mattresses. Trust me, it's true. So here's what you do:

1) Go into a mattress store and look at mattresses until you find one that you like. I went to mattress discounters on Mass. Ave. near the Boston / Brookline border.
2) Find out the exact make / model name for the mattress, and call 1-800-matres, while you are at the store, and ask them how much they want for the same mattress.
3) Without a doubt, you will find the 1-800-mattres is cheaper. Tell the guy at the store you can get it from 1-800-mattres for less money. Most likely, they will beat that price and sell it to you for less.

I bought a queen size mattress from Mattress discounters that had a sticker price of ~850 bucks for 450~ish (my memory is foggy, it's been a number of years) by doing this. The 1-800-mattres was 300-400 dollars less than mattress discounters' price, but they not only matched 1-800-mattres, but they beat it by 5%.