Never again, I swear to God.

[apocalypsos]

Please keep in mind before you read any of this that I haaaate filling up floor space in my apartment. Haaaaate. I would prefer an empty apartment to one chock full o' crap. It'll help to explain why I'm so fucking livid right now.

When my mom bought me the couch, it was supposed to replace the day bed in the living room. This would mean that I could put the mattress that had been on the day bed on the actual bed and then I would have a couch in the living room and a regular bed in the bedroom.

My parents were supposed to take away the day bed frame. They didn't. I asked them to, and they said, "But you can buy a mattress and put it in the spare bedroom for when you have guests over!"

For the record, I never have guests over. I hate having guests over. My parents are lucky I let THEM come over.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, when my mother said that her cousin was getting a new dining room set and was getting rid of her very nice one which I could have to replace the less nice one in my kitchen/dining room. "Oh, your father can take the old one away and give it to the Salvation Army!" Okay, sure. Except somewhere along the line, no matter how many times I told her no, the story turned into, "Oh, you can keep them both and when you get your own house you'll have two!" Who the FUCK needs two dining room sets? If I'm buying a house with two dining rooms -- why, I'm not sure -- shouldn't I be wealthy enough to buy two NEW dining room sets?

My dad called me yesterday as I was running out the door for work and said he and my brother were bringing down the new dining room set while I'd be gone. I knew what was coming. I knew it.

I came home from work to find two dining room sets cluttering up my apartment.

I have to go to bed now or I am going to call my mother and say very, VERY bad things to her. As it is, I'm already planning on calling her up when I wake up and telling her that in no way, shape or form is she EVER to offer me furniture again. Not even a lamp.

Comments

[amaresu]

Goodwill will come to you to get furniture.

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was gonna suggest getting Goodwill to pick it up, too. Plus, tax write-off.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My comment was also going to be that just because you've gotten gifted with something doesn't mean you need to keep it. Craigslist, Freecycle, Goodwill (and similar charities) are all good options.

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

I'd offer the bed and the dining room set up on Freecycle.

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

Freecycle is good too. Goodwill won't always come get things, and Christian Services is even pickier. But there's always people that want free furniture and will arrive with a truck to take it away :)

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

Yup. The good part of Freecycle is you can find things you need too :)

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

Quite true :)

Which reminds me, need to switch my freecycle yahoo group to this city now...

[aberrantangels]

You should have gone ahead and said the very, VERY bad things to her. It may be the only way to get her attention.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I did this to my mom on Friday night, when I told her that no, I didn't need to give her the phone number of the friend whose house I was going to this weekend because I am 30 years old and don't need my parents checking up on me. Not even to assuage their worries should I have been caught in the potential tornado that night.

It was very cathartic.

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

I'm throwing my hat in for Goodwill, or a homeless shelter or something of the like. They'll come take the furniture away, you get a tax write-off, and if your parents say anything just tell them that it went to a good cause.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really see the logic in two sets either unless she means to have one in the kitchen and one in the dining room.

Either way...yeah, my guess is that if you're wealthy enough to get a house, you'll probably be wealthy enough that IF YOU WANTED you could have always gone out to buy a second set. OR..you could put the single set that you already own in the kitchen and use the dining room for SOMETHING else entirely.

[deathbymutation.livejournal.com]

Aw, I get that. Less is comfy and more is just fucking cluttered. I hate rooms that have little to no walking space. We use to have this tiny apartment (a few years back) and in the living room we had our dining table, couch, recliner, large coffee table, wall unit for the TV and VCR, 3 by 7 toy box, LARGE stereo system and 2 end tables. I hated it -minus the nice hardwood flooring.

[fyrdrakken]

Ooh, the Goodwill suggestion tops my own idea, which was to inquire about large trash pickup day in your area, or whether there's enough traffic past your building for good unwanted stuff left on the curb to disappear within a day or two. The pro to that plan would have been letting your parents know that you *threw out* the unwanted furniture they'd stuck you with, which would probably help quell further impulses along those lines on their parts (though letting them know you gave the bed and dining room set to Goodwill, phrased as a gripe to them for making you call for the pickup rather than hauling it down themselves, would be almost as good). The two big cons to that plan of course would have been A) having to get a friend or two over to help haul it down to the curb and B) the risk of family members spotting the items on the curb before they disappear and hauling them back up to your apartment.

[dhark-charlotte.livejournal.com]

Freecycle is a great way to unload furniture, and they pick it up. You could also contact the local WIC office or 'Head-Start' office and ask if they know of a family that needs those items. That's how I unloaded our Early American monstrosity of a couch.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Take their damn keys away until they learn to behave themselves.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could sell them? I got twenty bucks for our beat-up old daybed frame.