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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oldschool59, post: 364029, member: 7598&quot;]Thank you all for the helpful and nice comments. My grandfather, God rest his soul, told me years ago. &quot;Buy what you need and not what you want, when the time comes you will have money in your pockets to buy what you want.&quot; My wife and I are almost to that point in our lives where we will worry more about medical bills and hospital visits than the house ( both of us are 59 years young.) The new home is possibly 18 months out due to numerous reasons and everything we are buying now goes into a climate controlled storage unit. OUCH! </p><p>We raised our children in a small home of less than 1400 SF and we don&#039;t have room to store the items we are now buying. Its a mess actually, but we would rather buy a good deal now and store it, rather than wait and have a home we have to hurriedly place furniture and nicknacks into. </p><p>What got me started on antiques was actually finally getting my grandfathers old secretary. It was his mothers and is quite old I believe. Nothing fancy about it at all. But I love it and the quality and workmanship is second to none compared to todays furniture. I live in NC which was once the Furniture Capital of the World. Today I am sad to say no one here can create a box with 2X4&#039;s because we have lost those tradesmen to overseas cheaper labor and materials.</p><p>Thank the Lord I was raised when I was, to understand the value of things and how to care for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well to sum this thread, my wife just called me and said she decided she wanted to wait and not get the set. She said she just isn&#039;t into that particular style so,</p><p>If mama aint happy, no one is. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am happy to have found this site and hopefully be a contributing member. Again thanks for all the comments and if anyone in the Raleigh NC area wants this set PM me and I will give you the details. It has to be moved by tomorrow though![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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