As I alluded to a few entries ago, I’ve got coffee cups and the like positively spilling out of my cupboards and I’ve been on the lookout for a vitrinskåp, or large china cabinet, for some time. I’m unwilling (and, frankly, unable) to pay for a new one, so I’ve been scouring the second-hand stores and want-ads. Unfortunately, most of the ones I saw were either way out of my price range, ugly as sin, or too far from my house (some managed to be all three!). On Thursday, though, I saw one online that was pretty much exactly what I was looking for, in the next town over, and a good bargain to boot.

Things move fast on Blocket and it was such a good deal that I figured it would already be gone, but when I called the seller’s number the woman who answered told me that it hadn’t sold yet. I told her that I definitely wanted it and made arrangements to pick it up on Saturday morning.

Yesterday at ten o’clock, Olof and his dad drove out and got it and then set it up in the upstairs living room. It looks pretty darn nice, if I do say so myself, and it’s got plenty of room for all quite a bit of the china I’ve yet to buy.

*what Olof told me, matter-of-factly, when he came home with the cabinet