News Weenie

I went to a local garage sale last week and bought an office desk off of one of my neighbors for pretty cheap. The guy is from Georgia, or maybe Kentucky, just by trying to figure out from his accent. I don’t actually know him all that well is the point. I thought I could trust my neighbors to warn me if they were selling me something that was about to fall apart, but I guess you never can tell. This desk was almost completely eaten out on the inside by termites or something and I didn’t realize this until I got it home. I guess I should have checked it out better, but like I said, I trusted neighborly disclosure.

I found this article today that talks about examining used furniture for sale for defects and what-not. It also talks about what to ask the seller so that you can judge whether the item’s in fine quality by their answers. It also talks about buying used hotel furniture from hotels that are either going out of business or just remodeling. This is a really novel idea that I hadn’t thought of so I looked into it some more. It appears that this is more common than you might expect. I’m going to drive around to a couple of hotels this week and see if I can find out any information about where and how they sell their old furniture. Just so long as I don’t have to drive by my ol’ Southern pal’s place.