[OrangeBlossomBaby]

The only furniture we bought new were our LaZ-Boy recliners, 30 years ago, our SleepNumber bed, 8 years ago, and our futon, 6 years ago. Everything else is either vintage, antique, or re-purposed stuff from spouse's workplace after they shut the department down and told everyone to take whatever would fit in their cars.

LaZBoy we had no problem with at all. SleepNumber delivered on time, and without incident. The futon was sort of a nightmare. Got it online, it's beautiful and we love it. But they insisted that someone had to be home when it was freight-delivered, and we weren't going to be in Florida that day. So they insisted also that it was light-weight enough to pick up, and would fit just fine in a pickup truck so we could bring it down ourselves our next trip down.

The mattress weighed over 100 pounds and stuck out the back of the pickup truck, and the unassembled frame weighed 50 pounds and took up a significant chunk of the rest of the pickup truck. So we had to make a trip down to Florida JUST to get the futon down there. And - it was delivered to my house in the north, while I was NOT home, and they didn't require a signature like they insisted they did when I'd placed the order. So we wasted around $500 in travel expenses - gas, tolls, an overnight in a hotel in each direction, and almost 3 days of time, just to get our brand new futon to our new home.

Everything else we picked up at estate sales, yard sales, flea markets, and even on the side of the road (a hassock with a hinged top that reveals storage space, that goes PERFECTLY with the rest of the living room furniture). A few pieces were inherited from family members, including a small bookcase made by my great-great uncle in the 1800s.