New dresser!

[phyncke]

So my old dresser had a massive crack that kept getting bigger running right through the top of it. That old bureau had a story. I got that in college at some collectibles store in Somerville, MA for like $25.00. I think it was my junior year when I moved to my first apartment. So I have had that thing for 25 years. That is pretty good. It was beaten up when I got it and certainly looked beaten up today. So my handy man took it to the dump since it was about to disintegrate.

Now I have shiny new dresser...I got it from a friend at work for $30.00, a really good deal on this one too but this is in really good shape. I am still getting used to it but all my stuff fits with extra room. So I am happy.

I thought I would share pics as I was really attached to the old dresser (RIP).



This is the old dresser.



And here is the new dresser (IKEA type):





I guess I am all grown up and should let go of that old thing. It is weird to let things like that go.


by lotrangel17

Comments

[darklingfae.livejournal.com]

First off, love the new layout. Second, poor poor old dresser, it looked so neat and old but the new one looks just as neat too. Great deals!

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

The old one definitely had "character" lol. I miss its!

But I love the new one too so I will be ok. :P

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

I had a cherry bedroom set when I lived in Cincinnati. I paid my cousin $100. for it--- a headboard, nightstand, dresser & mirror... It would have been too expensive to move it out west when I got my new job so I sold it to someone else. *Sniffs* It was so pretty.

Love both dressers... :)

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Aww. I know! It is hard to let things go and that was a great deal on those. Wowsie.

I am getting used to the new one. The drawers do open better and stuff but the old one was like an old friend. Hoo.

[aglarien1.livejournal.com]

Love them both - that old one would be great if it could be restored. The new one is nice.

*hugs*

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Agie. The new one is growing on me. I don't have room for the two and this new one was such a good deal. Time to let that old one go.

*huggles*

[elflover59.livejournal.com]

I love the new dresser. Very pretty.:)

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I really like it and my stuff fits very well into it. It also feels very solid.

So that is a win. :)

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to say goodbye.

The new dresser looks good. I like IKEA.

Hugs Binky xx

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Yes, had to let that go. I love the new one too. It makes my living room look way better and more together so that is good too.

*huggles*

[ardisia.livejournal.com]

The old one had character, so maybe someone will renovate it?

The new one looks great. Sometimes we have to be pratical and find things that do the job.

The old one certainly had the 'Hogwarts' thing going on. I should fill our old house with old character stuff, but with four kids, practicality has to win out.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I still have some furniture with character. I love old antique or distressed furniture and have never been able to buy new stuff. So that is why i have all that. :)

The new dresser looks great here and makes the room look much better.

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Nice! I really like it. Deals are good aren't they? :)

Someone stole my old dresser out of a storage unit back when I was in college. It was Daddy's when he was a boy. It really broke his heart to lose it.

[stephmariemarsh.livejournal.com]

its hard letting go of things, I'm like that too. The new dresser looks nice tho :)

[erviniae.livejournal.com]

Beautiful new dresser, but I like the new one.
*hugs*

[luin77.livejournal.com]

I really like both, the old and the new one. And see it this way, a few years down the road the new one will be old too and it will have developed its own charm! :)

[sweetkisses13.livejournal.com]

Awe, the poor old dresser. =(