I've been looking for a new lateral file cabinet to replace two smaller cabinets for a couple of years now. Ok, so I wasn't looking toooo hard but I've been keeping a look out for a descent one at a descent price. They are always so pricey! I stumbled across this one a couple months ago (little behind in my posting!) for $40 at
River Market Antiques. I couldn't believe the price! It doesn't actual hang the files laterally - it has two front facing rows in each drawer - which is even better. I was planning on shoving it into my storage closet where the old ones were but it actually looks nice enough to be out in the open where it is more accessible. And since I don't really have a side table for that end of the couch it works out great for now.
To make the deal sweeter the same day I bought this I found an old metal desk in great condition for FREE off craigslist. It is a cream color with chrome legs and a light brown laminate top. I failed to get a picture before I put it in my office and that room is too tiny for photos. My old desk was one of those assemble yourself particleboard jobs and I was so tired of it. It also had a matching lateral file cabinet. The file drawers in my new desk are so deep that I was able to fit everything from the old lateral cabinet into it. Then I sold the old desk and two of the file cabinets for $35. The final cabinet I donated to the DAV.
Net cost for my filing makeover: just $5! Love it.
What fun! That surely is one gorgeous file cabinet. I think you really lucked out that day!
ReplyDeleteThat is one darned good looking file cabinet!!
ReplyDeleteLove that, and your still life with the typewriter and penguin. I believe my typewriter is the same exact kind. I will be on the prowl for a file cabinet that sexy and maybe my typewriter will live on it, too!
ReplyDeleteAnne Coulter -- are you kidding me?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure this post was about filing cabinets, but Anne Coulter is pretty awesome too. Gotta love a strong outspoken Conservative woman!
ReplyDeleteAnne Coulter the woman who loudly claims that single mothers are the reasons that the jails in this country are full; what nonsense. Anne Coulter the woman who asserted that the 9/11 women were chasing after money and fame after losing their loved ones in what is without doubt one the biggest tragedies in the USA. AS IF.... Anne Coulter is nothing short of a big mouth bully. AND I love I it when the women from The View, rip her a new one.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rush...the guy who preached night and day and day and night about the pit falls of drug addiction only to be a drug addicted himself.
Don't love your politics but love your MCM house. AND BTW, if you don't want people commenting on politics or giving you their own views, don't list them as good reading on you blog roll.
Dag, i was wondering where THAT came from. Thanks for clearing it up Dona. It was looking like the Anne Coulter thing just came out of no where!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, great wheelin' and dealin'. People can't really get their head around the idea that I've probably MADE a few bucks furnishing our pad. Gotta hustle in this "new" economy!