My gf came home last night, back from going out with her friend Nancy and started talking about her night, etc, and then she tells me all about Nancy's boyfriend wanting to buy a brand new bedroom set and get rid of the one that he has now, which is only 3 years old and has a 3 month old mattress. Then she says this:
Her: Yeah, Nancy said her boyfriend is going to be selling his bedroom set. It's really nice, and I told her we'd buy it from him.
Me: You did what?
Her: Yeah, I told her we'd buy it all for like $100. (Now, this is a KING SIZE BED with a BRAND NEW mattress, a full oak dresser with a mirror, a nightstand, etc. $100? No way!)
Me: Umm...I think he's going to ask for a little more than $100. I can't get the money to buy a bedroom set! What's wrong with the one that we have now? (Which is the one that my grandmother got me when I moved in here, and it's not even a year old. It's a queen sized bed with a dresser with a nice wide mirror).
Her: Well, I don't like that one. We could just throw away that one and get another one. Or we could sell it on Ebay! (WTF?? Sell it on Ebay? How are you going to ship a bed and a dresser?)
This p****d me off because that's something my grandmother gave to me that she didn't have to. That's like having someone give you a fairly new car and then just giving it away to someone. Besides, she may be getting her hours cut, so why waste money when you don't have to? She always wants to buy new stuff when we already have stuff already...that's why she's got huge credit card bills because she buys new clothes all the time. What do you guys think? Am I over-reacting?
Just for reference, this is the same girl who says she doesn't want to watch shows on the Discovery Channel, History Channel or TLC because she has to learn stuff; she wants to watch TV shows where she doesn't have to pay attention to it or think about. Why watch TV if you're not going to pay attention to the show???
