I've missed blogging over the last week because we've been so busy preparing a financial education booth for Prairie Days in Yelm on June 23rd to the 25th and working on our house. We've been talking about pulling up the carpet and getting new flooring for a few years now. The holdup has always been me because I wanted to make sure we could pay cash. I had done a walkthrough with a couple a few years ago and in passing they said they remodeled one room at a time as they had money. This thought has always stuck in my mind. If you can't pay cash...Wait until you can.
Finally, we got our taxes back, did some much needed car maintenance, went on vacation and we made sure we had enough left over to pull the carpet and put down laminate. Jody is real excited and can't wait to have it completed!!
We spent a lot of time looking for the right laminate, weighing price, value, and choices of flooring. We set a budget for the job and kept our eye on making sure we stayed under budget. Well, we finally found the right laminate that we knew would look good in our home. One weekend we saw it at 2.69/sq ft and we asked them if they could go lower. They said they could go as low as 2.49/sq ft. We kept that in the back of our minds. When we finally determined that this place was the one, we looked online and they had it for 2.89/sq ft. Our hearts sank, because that would put us over our budget. I called the company and told them our budget and that we needed to make it under that. It was the end of the month and they were willing to make some deals and move some inventory so we asked them how low they could go, and they said they could go down to 2.49/sq ft. We did the math and 550 sq ft @ 40 cents saving /sq ft saved us over $200 on our purchase because we were willing to ask for a lower price. This kept us under budget, so we went and bought new flooring that day! We're so happy because we like the flooring and got it for a good price.
Thank you,
Greg and Jody Roche
Be Frugal Live Wealthy
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