Our Reward for Sacrificing

All of my student loans are paid off! It's been a tough journey full of sacrifices and big extra payments resulting in my loans all paid off in 5½ years. We still have a couple of Dan's to finish, however, his will be all finished by the end of June 2014. Afterwards the trick will be to NOT spend every dime we've put towards debt and save, Save, SAVE as much as possible of that "extra" income.

To celebrate the milestone of my debts being finished we decided to look for a new couch. We asked for recommendations, having no idea where to begin the shopping process. The first store we went to had many to choose from and we found three that were our favorites:

None of them we were both 100% sold on; they were too formal, too casual, or too retro for what we wanted. So off to a couple more stores we went.

Finally we had some time between Conference Sessions and decided to try one or two more stores. We entered one and looked through several options not very excited about much of what we saw; the price and/or style. Finally we found one we both agreed upon! The price was reasonable enough that we were able to purchase the ottoman too.

Because we purchased the couch exactly how it appeared on the floor (in fact it is the one from the sales floor) it was delivered about a week after we purchased it. The morning it arrived I raced home from work to see our new furniture in it's proper place. I must say, we picked well!

Since the couch is a totally different color than what we had before, that means that purchases need to be made so that more of the living room items match the different color scheme. I'm trying to be patient but am anxious to finish the search for additional seating options and to complete our new living room decor.