Truth #4: Furnishing an Unfurnished Apt.

I think that some people freak out about living in an unfurnished apartment after getting married because they don't want to be bothered with getting all of the stuff. But in all truthfulness, it is not that bad.

The way to furnish an unfurnished apartment in Provo is simple. Drive around the city and look for free discarded items lying on the street! There are tons of married couples in Provo constantly moving away to bigger and better things. In their frantic need to move, they freak out and just throw perfectly good items on the curb.

At first I toyed with the idea of getting free things, but I finally decided to go all out one Saturday in July. I asked my friend to help me find furniture for our apartment by driving around Provo to look at the various garage sales that were happening. But that morning, on my walk home from the Provo bakery, I discovered a couch sitting on the corner with a sign saying 'FREE' taped to the front of it!

I quickly sat down in it to stake my claim and called my friend up to come and help me move it. I was of course hoping that her husband would come to help us move the couch, but he had to work, so there we were two marginally weak girls lifting a love seat down the one block stretch to my house and taking about four breaks to get it there.

After that impressive find, I could not stop. I did not want to spend money on couches! while driving to another yard sale we found the cutest couch lying in the road. In fact, it was so cute that we still are not sure whether or not it was free or if we might have stolen a couch . . .

Now, I know that you are thinking about sanitation with all this free stuff. I too was sufficiently scared when I went home over the summer and the bishopbric in my mom's ward talked about the bed bug infestation in the ward. We also found a free mattress and people think that is weird too . . . But for everyone's info they have now been deep cleaned and I still have yet to sit on the couches . . . But hopefully they are ok and we don't catch a fungus from them.