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I was able to get on at 10:30 am this morning and bought a few clothing items. It didn't seem like that much was out of stock at that time, maybe 40% of the stuff, and nothing disappeared from my cart, which surprised me.

I love the pencil cup! Is it DIY?

Wow, that chair is amazing. Looks a lot like a beautiful blue velvet tufted chair they have at Jayson for $1200.

My mom has two large wingbacks from her front room that she always wanting to post on Craigslist. The quality and condition is great, but upholstery is strangely textured peach color.

My experience is purely with Craigslist Chicago, but using keywords is really hit or miss. There are great apartments with poorly written posts (usually they are being rented by the owner without the help of a broker or management company). You might be searching for wood floors, but the ad says all new oak floors, or you search for washer and dryer and the ad says w/d.

I used to totally disregarded any ad without pictures (under the logic that if the apartment looks nice why not have pictures?) until my husband came across a post for an apartment meeting all our requirements in our budget in our desired neighborhood (first one we'd ever come across), but it didn't have pictures. We went to see it anyways and it turned out to be really nice, the owner just didn't really understand how to use craigslist.
Contact the lister even if the ad is crappy and doesn't give all the information you may want. A crappy ad will probably mean less competition and more chance you will be able to negotiate on the price (although it might just mean a crappy apartment). Go see as many places as you can, don't trust pictures alone (I know in Chicago many brokers repost pictures of other units in the same building, etc.).

Beautiful building and I love the color of the wood, but I would probably add some rugs to define the spaces and add warmth.

I wouldn't do this because storing the old books would be a pain. Also, unless the guests wrote something really special, I wouldn't go back and just want to reread their names and when they were at my house. My husband and I decided not to have a guest book at our wedding for these reasons. If anything, I just save the thank you note if it contains a really moving message.

Will someone please buy that yellow desk? This is its fourth or fifth appearance!

Beebob, the same thing happened to my parents around the same time! It could have been the same company. Were your parents moving from Philly to New Orleans too?

The worst thing that has happened to me was movers said they would arrive at 8 am one day. I drove an hour from friends house where I was staying, sat in an empty apartment with no wifi, tv, furniture all day, and then they showed up at 10 pm and the building wouldn't allow moves after 9 (and I had clearly told the moving company this). They were furious and I was furious.

Interesting...but 9 tops for one week seems like overpacking to me unless I am going to be sweating a lot and want to change tops midday.

Wow, third time (at least) for that yellow desk!