Grant and I have been trying to sell some stuff on Craigslist lately because it is just cluttering our apartment. We don’t need them, and so we try to sell them. We have definitely found some of the dumbest Craigslist people around. First they call and want to see it, you wait for hours, and then they either never show, or they later tell you they already found what they needed. But in the end, Craigslist is awesome when people are just curtious. One of the things we have been trying to sell was our couch.

We finally managed to sell it for 100 which is awesome because it makes our apartment feel so much more open, and this was awesome when I was 15 and bought it. Now that I am older the low back isn’t quite as comfortable as I would have liked another reason we decided to part with it. Supposedly it went to a school library in a school here in Austin which sounds awesome and would be a perfect couch for that. Grant wonders if this was just a scheme of the buyer to get a better price,but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

We then upgraded from the couch to this chair and ottoman which we also bought on craiglist.

We got this pair for 140 instead of 400… we really wanted the leather pads. Well, we wanted it with white leather, but they only have an off white that always looks dirty so this is the compromise. Other than this we finally got organizational tools for our desks. We love our desks since they are just a top piece with two drop downs on either side, but that means no storage. So, once again Craigslist pulled through and we got these for 50 for the pair which was a steal since they are steel no pun intended.

Also, if you have never been on the website http://austin.kashless.org/free it is worth your time. It is full of people just giving stuff away. We saw a posting today for a while leather modern couch that someone had put on their curb. We went to go get it, but someone else had beat us there which can happen, but I still can’t wrap my head around just throwing something like that out when you could sell it, but people give away a lot of stuff so they don’t have to mess with it, so give it a try if your interested, oh, and they have them in other states too.

It has been a little while since I have posted. Grant and I have both been working at Alpha Granite, and Grant has even been working almost full time which has been a huge blessing. We are wanting very much to pay off our loans so any extra cash we can get will definitely help.

As many of you know, I have been reading the blog www.hip2save.com a lot, and I get a lot of my great deals off of her website. A few of the things that she puts on there are just sweepstakes or things to enter. I do them for poops and giggles,but I never expect to win anything. But low and behold I won something!!!

Actually, I won two!

Johnson and Johnson has some awesome giveaways where the first 10,000 to enter win, etc. So I always enter just because you never know.

This was the larger of the two; I had never gotten anything like this so it was a cool treat, especially since I won’t have to buy ziplock bags for a while now.

After there first win, a few weeks later I got this one in the mail, a little bit smaller,but I will take anything free and be completely satisfied.

Again, very few Ziplocs will be bought for a while.

Yep them are some firetrucks!

So we got the following Monday off from work and it was glorious.. why you might ask.. well because one of our close friends/cousin/ex-roommate came into town and stayed with us for the extended weekend.. Was super fun! We chilled, worked out, went thrifting, actually went out to eat at a restaurant, then went over to a 4th get together at the amaro’s.

Ok, so Grant and I have one main Luxury that we pay for. We don’t need iphones at all,but being really frugally with other areas of our lives, this is the one area we like to splurge a little bit. Also, we know that the second these phones become to expensive, we can cancel the data plan and start using regular phones again. Anyway, as some of you may have heard, the iphone 4 just came out. So, Grant and I sold our older iphones 3Gs phones, and Grant wanted to preorder both of our phones. Well, he was lucky enough to right when he woke up on the June 15th which was the first day to preorder he some how got his preorder in… then all of the servers crashed. So, it was looking like only Grant would get a phone on release day. He tried ALL DAY to put my preorder in, only to find out that they are only allowing one preorder per Apple account. If he had known that, it would have saved him some time. He then decided to order my phone through AT&T and have it delivered to our apartment.

As the days went by, Grant kept reading all of the latest news on what was going on with the iphones since this was vital information for him. He then told me that he was really sorry that he wasn’t able to get my order in with Apple, or sooner with AT&T because my phone might come as late as July 2nd or July 14th rather than June 24th. Well, As time went on, we realized that Apple didn’t put a hold on the shipped phones this year. This means that, once they made it into a town they were able to be delivered to their new owners with out being held. Last year, the phones could be housed in a warehouse across the street,but until the 24th you wouldn’t be able to get your hands on it. This year they didn’t care, so some people were receiving their new iphones on the 22nd which was two days early. Now Grant was annoyed because if he had known that, the would have ordered both of our phones to be delivered to our apartment because his preorder was only for one day at the Apple store. If he were not get into line to late, he could miss his phone and have to wait until at least July 14 which would be a huge bummer.

So as Grant would say, “Long story Long.” My Iphone came the day before preorder dates. It was delivered the 23rd. Also, we found out that if you leave a signed note the UPS person will take the note, and leave  your item even if you are not here.

Here you can see our Awesome UPS person disguising my phone box under the mat. The box was very nondescript, so no one would have been able to tell where it was from and what was inside,but the extra precautions were very appreciated non the less.

Here you can see the new box design. The old ones looked completely different.

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There are some more pictures of my phone. Grant then got up around 4:30 am to go stand in line while I already had my phone. He had a decent time in line, so I don’t think it was too bad, but if we had had both of ours delivered to our door it would have been nice. We have had fun finding out all the new features, and we even got the apple bumper cases as well. Pictures to come soon. Hope you are all well, and we have phones again WOOT!