A Used Furniture Store Can Be a Big Help

Shortly after I graduated college, I was pretty desperate to get out of my parents' house and move out on my own. I did not have a lot of money and had just started working at an entry-level salary, but I had been saving some and was ready to look at getting some furniture for a new place I had just rented. I stopped by a used furniture store and went inside. I saw a lot of things that I wanted, and ended up buying a number of them, and I can say in all honesty that the store was a big help!

I think when I first went into the used furniture store, the owners could tell that I was still wet behind the ears, because the woman took kind of a motherly approach to me, while the man kept telling me what I needed. It reminded me a lot of my own parents, but I did not get any type of salesmanship from them. I could tell that they were just trying to help me out, and before long, I had a number of items stacked up that I wanted to bring home.

I knew that I was probably not going to be able to get everything that I was wanting, because even with it being a used furniture store, I had a lot of pieces of furniture that I was interested in, and the best part was that it would fill my apartment perfectly. I talked at length with the owners about my situation and informed them that I had about $1,000 to spend. I knew that everything that I had lined out came to well over $1,000 according to the prices marked on the furniture. I decided to haggle with them, and was able to get a considerable amount knocked off of the original prices.

I called my brother, told him of the location of the used furniture store, and asked him if he could come and help me move everything, as he had a pretty big truck. It took us four trips to get everything that I had purchased back to my apartment and inside. When all was said and done, I got everything that I wanted except for a recliner that would have put me just over the $1,000 mark. I shook the owners' hands, turned to leave, and the man called out to me that I had forgotten something. I turned around and he pointed to the chair. He said it was on him and his wife, and then gave me $50 back for my brother and I to go out and have dinner. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed with gratitude, and thanked them over and over again.

That used furniture store was in business for 15 more years before it finally closed, and the couple retired very comfortably. It was always really busy, and with the way that I was treated when I went there as a younger man, I can certainly see why.