Deal of the Decade

Kyper is starting to roll over, which means that in no time he will probably be moving all around our house. This got Joel and I thinking about doing some baby proofing our house. We don't have a lot of things that are breakable or too sentimental, but there are a few things we want to get out of Kyper's reach.

So, with some Christmas money we decided it would be good to look into taller shelving units or some sort of different entertainment center. We saw one we really likes on craigslist, but it was too expensive considering we would not only need to pay for the piece, but we would also need to rent a Uhaul. Well, I did a lot more online research and looking and we found one we liked at Art Van, but the measurements it gave indicated that it would be too small for our very large tube TV.

We hit the stores on Saturday after doing the online research. We went to Art Van, Value City Furniture and Big Lots. (Remember we are still students and renters. ;)) We went to Art Van first and actually saw the one that we looked at online and discovered that it would fit our TV and get this: It was originally $300, but it was marked down to $40!!! We still did not purchase it right away, since we wanted to just see if the other stores had something we liked more. But, in the end we went back to Art Van and got this--the deal of the decade:


Now, we have some taller shelves to house our little things. Yes, we still have our DVD, VCR, and converter box down below the TV and the DVD's, but none of that stuff will hurt Kyper. I don't like the idea of having to clean up DVD's everyday or have Kyper push all the buttons. But, it will be good for him to learn that it is not okay to do that, because when we visit other people's homes, they may have things that cannot be touched and he will have learned some of boundaries at home already. Next step of baby proofing is putting some electrical covers on the plugs and a few latches on our kitchen and bathroom cabinets.

It may not be the look we will go for when we eventually own our own home, but we figure for $40 we couldn't go wrong and it will eventually be nice for a basement someday. :)