Hi, my name is Christa and...I'm addicted to Craigslist

I may as well be honest to those around me. I've become addicted to craigslist withing the last 72 hours.

Exhibit A- "Free Piano":

We had some friends that got a free piano off of craigslist and they spent a little over $100 getting it fixed up. It's a beautiful piano and I thought to myself, "Huh, I could probably do that to." Of course this was around Christmas time and I didn't really think about it at all...until about 72 hours ago. I decided to check craigslist...why not...there could be another free piano from someone who just doesn't have the room. So I checked Saturday and low and behold there were the words "Free Piano" this poor lady had this piano for 30 years and she just didn't have room for it any longer, she said it needed some fixing up but I was willing to do the work...by me I mean my husband. So here it is:

Not bad at all, a few dings here and there and the keys needed to be filed, there were a few hammers missing along with the fact that it needed to be tuned...very badly. I was excited and today I was supposed to call around and find out how much it would cost to get it all fixed. (It should be noted that I emailed a few other people about other items throughout the day on Sat. and Jeremy and my dad went to pick this up on Sunday morning before church.

So fast forward to today. I was searching the web for local piano people to fix our new piano when I decided to go ahead and see what all the new listings were on craigslist for the day...and I came across and really nice piano for $275! I thought, "Gees! If it takes $200 to fix the one we have now only $75 for one that already works...hmmm." So I called Jeremy and left a voicemail. Then I scrolled down a bit further and found a piano for $100! I started to think that maybe I had jumped the gun with the free piano...I started to regret my free purchase...mostly because both Jeremy and my dad think they really hurt their backs lifting it and my dad got a really deep cut from the bottom of the free piano. Anyway back to the $100 piano. It looked good, it had some scribbles on it from kids BUT they had just spent $100 getting some keys fixed and tuning it....the wheels were turning...in my head. So I picked up the phone once more to call Jeremy and left a very excited voicemail saying all of my new found info on the $100 piano. Then I called my mom telling her all about it and that I thought it was really worth it.

I also noticed on the pic of the $100 piano that there was a primary book. I thought, these people have to be Mormon....bonus. So I called the guy about it and he was very excited to sell it to us as well. Jeremy gets home I tell him all about it, I called my home teacher asked him to get us a truck and help go get it. It turns out the people selling the piano are IN OUR WARD!! Seriously, isn't that crazy! Anyway, so Jeremy went with our home teacher around 1pm and got the piano for $100!

I think we're going to paint it an awesome color (any suggestions?) and the moral of the story is...Jeremy is really annoyed with me and told me I need to stop looking at craigslist for a while...and now we have two pianos in our tiny townhouse!

So...do you need a free piano?