My Wall Street Bonus

So everything at our new apartment is just super, with the exception of one thing - storage and cupboard space. I know...those are pretty huge minuses for most home seekers, maybe even deal breakers, but my gut was telling me to move here, and my gut has never let me down yet...except after those chili cheese fries from Taco Bell, but that doesn't count.

The obvious solution was to get a jelly cupboard or portable pantry and just slip it in a corner by the kitchen to store my mounds of food storage and extra dishes. Good idea but, what happens after I spend the big bucks and we relocate to a new place in the future that doesn't require me to have such a thing? This being our 4th move in our marriage, I've realized that I don't want to invest in furnishings that are so house specific. So my solution was this...something that looked nice and could be useful in many different rooms.


My vision was with this I can hide my food storage in baskets in the bottom, make Henry's books, toys and puzzles easily accessible to him while at the same time display some of my extra dishes, decor and books. Win-win-win-win and win. How many win's was that? Probably too many, but we GOT IT and the biggest "win" I have yet to tell is.......it was FREE!!

Long story short, a presumably wealthy, Matt Damon-esk (says Mark), corporate lawyer who lived and works on Wall Street had moved and had to get this sucker out of his old apartment asap. When we were about to shut the deal down because of mere logistics of getting it from his house to our house he offered it to us for free. FREE? ME? Yes please!! He said that the money wasn't an issue and I sounded like a really nice person and he would be happy to see it go to someone who really wanted it. (I thought I sounded slightly chipmonk-ish on the phone but I guess that's what "nice" sounds like.) Mark, my hero, then spent most of the day traveling to and from the city, finding parking, disassembling the thing, hauling the zillion pieces to the car from the 21st floor of a building, then reassembling it once he got home. Thank you Mark! I feel tired just reading that. But it was FREE glorious FREE!!

My new hope is that there are other Wall Street suits out there who received undeserved and unnecessary bonuses that can just sluff off maybe a nice shabby-sheik dresser and a kitchen table to me for free as well. I can't say I'm not going to look.

TO CRAIGSLIST!!