Filling a Home With Furniture Bought on SF Craigslist
When we moved to California, we were mostly starting from scratch. We knew it would be a temporary stay, but not so temporary that we would live the way we lived when my husband was in grad school, with furniture from our roommate’s mom’s basement. Besides, even if we’d wanted to, we didn’t have anyone on the West Coast to take furniture from. Our Bay Area contacts were a few friends from college and cousins who were either too old or too young to want to hang out with us for more than the occasional birthday dinner. We’d gotten married earlier that summer for the first time, it really felt like it was just the two of us.
Our arrival in California was a cleaner slate than we’d anticipated. UPS lost two bags of clothes in the move — my husband’s suits and dress shoes, and all of my casua...