Good Luck or Blessings?

Some would call it being lucky, some would say it was fortunate and others may even say it's a blessing. You can decide which one it is for yourself.

Earlier this week Mark received an email from his Dad asking if we would like to have his old clothes dryer. We've been thinking about getting once since we moved into our new place because with the weather we've been having lately (it is winter after all) we've resorted to having clothes airers all over the place trying to dry our washing. So when Mark got this email we jumped at it. Free is good!! All we had to do was go up there and collect it.

Well yesterday Mark took the big fella up there and I stayed home with the little dude. It was nice not having to worry about kids arguing. The little dude was becoming concerned that they had been gone for such a long time but I wasn't worried. After all Mark doesn't get to see his Dad a lot so I thought it was good if he managed to spend some time with him.
So we now have a clothes dryer and a new coffee table (which Mark also brought back from his Dad's).

On Thursday we went hunting for bunk beds. There isn't enough room in the boys room for two single beds and the only alternative we had was to get bunks. We went to one town but had no luck. The prices they wanted for bunks ranged from $299 to around $500. I even suggested second hand places. We ended up heading back towards home and tried one of the local stores. There is this bloke who makes some really neat looking wooden furniture so we thought we would check out his shop. There was a fantastic bunk bed but it was way out of our league at around $800. Thankfully he had a couple of used bunks available. Someone had moved interstate and asked him to sell them for him. So we grabbed one. They look really good in the boys room too and so much more roomier than the one the boys used at the caravan park.

I also thought that we should probably get a set top box. Well Mark suggested it but I didn't think too much of it on Thursday. We went back into town on Friday morning. I can't remember why we originally went into town. I think it was just so I could get something for myself from our tax money. We had a look in retravision first and I liked the look of one of the sets but since it was our first stop we didn't get anything. You know its always good to compare prices. Our next stop was Harvey Norman. Mark asked where the set top boxes were and believe it or not they were right in front of us. When I saw the exact same set that I likes from retravision only much dearer. So I told the bloke that worked there that I saw the same one at least $10 - $20 cheaper in the store across the road. To which he replied 'I can do a deal for you for $110'. It sounded good to me so we bought it!!
I think we've done pretty well since we've moved in with the bargains we've made.