Ordered new curtains!

[peach]

We're totally brokedy ass broke, but I used some of my tax return to buy new curtains for the living room. We have lived here a year and a half, with no curtains because I couldn't find any I liked that were affordable and not paper thin crap.

I finally found some at Pottery Barn that were on sale so I could actually afford them! Still a lot of money - it was $300 for all the panels I needed, with shipping and duty and taxes. I better freaking love them!

I am feeling guilty because I should not be spending money on extras right now, but I wanted to treat myself to something - I am back to work and feeling a bit sorry for myself, plus I have been browsing for about a year for curtains and these are the first ones I have found that I deemed affordable and I usually love PB quality so I think it will be worth it.

Now I have to wait to shell out the money for the massive curtain rod I will need

[emoflamingo]

Oh I get you. But I bet the curtains will be great and you'll have them for a long time so the price break down will be okay. (It's what I am telling myself about the $300 purse I carried for a year.)

[peach]

I am usually really cheap when it comes to decor because knockoffs are usually just fine. But I can never find cheap curtains, at least not patterned ones. I use cheap white Ikea ones for some rooms that look fine, but patterned ones are harder. Plus I like my living room curtains to have some weight, so they hang nice ya know? I know I will probably have them for the next 5 years or more so it it totally worth it, it's just not the best time to be doing it.

My living room looks so unfinished right now, I can't wait to finally make it look like a home in there. I keep justifying it because we host a bible study ever week and we are now the official house for all the family get togethers too, so we are hosting a lot and I am embarrassed of my living room.

[Deleted]

You know how I am about home decor. Cheap and very little of it..lol.
However, I'm currently between my LR and patio door looking at $350.00 worth of curtains. I don't feel guilty. I love them. They make my whole room without a lot of extras needed. They'll be up until I'm dead for sure, but it was worth the splurge.

And also, I don't have a lot of curtains (everyone on here chews me out about that) but unless it's like a bedroom I don't like the look of cheap, flimsy, not sewn evenly curtains from Target or whatever. If I'm going to block my view there better be something totally awesome in my curtain pattern to look at instead.

[ssmjlm]

I just spent $300 on 4 panels for our bedroom at RH. It took me over a year of convincing DH that we in fact needed new curtains and 3 months to talk him into the ones from RH.

I'm probably going to upgrade the rods when they arrive from the crappy target ones. I'm just not going to mention that part to DH until I've bought them.

[bunch]

Lol. And I thought my target curtains were a splurge

[emoflamingo]

Remember my rug debacle? Yeah, I ordered it. Last month. It's on back order until NEXT month. But I got an extra 10% off for the wait!

Sometimes, cheap is just cheap and not frugal.