Three and a half months of living in a temporary apartment is about 3 months too many. In the past 3 months, we really haven't been able to settle into our apartment because we've known that we would soon be leaving. As the weeks have gone on, our apartment has become more and more crowded. We have been slowly accumulating things for our permanent apartment, but we have no place to put these things. Therefore, they are piled on top of or next to the things that were already in the temporary apartment. I will be so happy to be in our new place where everything will have a place to go. Fortunately, our move date of September 7 will be here soon.
Since we didn't move any furniture to Switzerland with us, we need to furnish our entire apartment. We have bought a bed for ourselves and a crib for Claire, but that's all the furniture we have so far. The easiest thing to do would be to go to IKEA and buy everything there and get it all delivered free of charge. However, I do not want an entire apartment of IKEA furniture, so I'm choosing to do it the harder way by finding used things on Gordon's work website and on the Swiss version of Craigslist. I hope that this way, we will have good quality pieces of furniture for less than Swiss prices, which are entirely ridiculous. Tomorrow, though, I will go on a scouting trip to IKEA to see exactly what I would like to get from them.
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