Eureka, I've found a solution to the problem of my pack rat-ed-ness that I wrote about yesterday. It wasn't exactly an easy problem to solve, but it was an interesting one at least. After meandering my way around town to a bunch of different office supply and furniture stores, I ended up returning home slightly discouraged. I hadn't found what I wanted...well at least not at a price that I was willing to pay. I hit up the internet once again and realized that I hadn't thought to look at the popular office supply store Staples for office furniture. I looked up their website, and I was surprised to find that they had listed several file cabinets and even some bookcases on various sales and clearances. An added incentive to buy from them was the fact that they were advertising free shipping on all orders over fifty dollars. Score! I realized that I was feeling a little bit impatient, because when I added a filing cabinet to my cart, just to make sure that the free shipping was for real, I saw that the furniture wouldn't be delivered for a few days. I thought to myself that I might be at work, and I didn't want it to get stored at the leasing office at my apartment complex over the weekend or something...that would just upset me even more. I decided that I would call our local Staples to see if they had the same items in stock. They gentleman who answered the phone had me on hold for quite a while, but then he informed me that they did in fact have just one of the filing cabinets that I was looking for still in stock. I asked if he could hold it for me, and I ran quickly up to find my roommate to borrow his SUV in order to pick up the filing cabinet that I was going to buy. Mission accomplished with getting the car, and fifteen minutes later I was up at Staples. I quickly saw that the filing cabinet that I wanted was not the same price as advertised on the internet, and when I inquired about the discrepancy, the girl at the cash register informed me that some clearance items have a special internet ordering price. Well, paying an additional twenty-five dollars for this filing cabinet was just not going to happen...but I'm sure you could all have guess that since you know me. So, I started glancing around their "furniture show room" to see what other option that were available. As my luck would have it, there were a lot of items on sale at the store show room that were not even listed on their website. I saw some deals on a few things that I thought were just too good to be true, so before getting my hopes up, I decided to ask for someone to help me out to answer my questions. When someone finally came over to help me, I got the information that I needed about availability and pricing on a different file cabinet...which was actually more along the lines of what I was looking for in the first place. The cabinet was marked down from one hundred twenty dollars to just forty-five dollars. Score again! As the guy helping me out was in the back room getting the file cabinet that I was going to buy for forty-five dollars, I happened to see another cabinet that was advertised as a "close out" item for only ten dollars. I never figured that this could be the cabinet that I was actually looking at, since it was a really nice and relatively big cabinet. When the guy came back with my filing cabinet, I asked him about the ten dollar cabinet, and sure enough, the price had been marked correctly. My mind started racing as I was trying to figure out what I could use the cabinet for, and more importantly, where was I going to put it in my room. I realized that at ten dollars, I couldn't possibly pass up such a deal, so I ended up taking the pair of them. So, here I am at home, with two big boxes containing two new cabinets to put into my bedroom staring at me in my living room. I have walked into my bedroom several times, and I end up walking out just shaking my head, because there really isn't anywhere for these cabinets to go. Oh well, one more task to overcome, but I'm sure that it will all turn out for the best in the end. I can't help myself when deals like that come around...which I've been told means that I take after my grandfather, who would go buy cases of random things like pickles or mayonnaise at Sam's club, just because they were on sale...thinking that he and my grandmother would use them eventually.