{"id":1421,"date":"2012-10-07T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2012-10-07T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T02:59:20","slug":"yard-sales-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2012\/10\/07\/yard-sales-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Sales & Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2012.10.07.a\"<\/a>\"2012.10.07.b\"<\/a>As I started to settle into my new apartment, I decided to look for some furniture this weekend. With the budget of a fellow’s salary, that meant looking on Craigslist<\/a> and going yard sale hunting. To my surprise, a web search for yard sales in Durham alone yielded more than 30 hits! After mapping out the sites and plotting my plan of attack, I set out bright and early Saturday morning. What started as a furniture hunt, however, became an eclectic tour of the city’s diverse neighborhoods. As I pawed through the knick-knacks and paraphernalia from the spectrum of affluent to indigent households, I feel as if I were taking a voyeuristic peek into the lives of these families. Along the way, I also visited a few consignment shops and a store selling unfinished wood furniture, for which Durham is known for. In the end, I scored a few wall shelves, lamp shades, and a wooden futon, which I managed to convinced the short, stocky Hispanic father of 3 teenagers to help deliver to my home with his pick-up truck. For lunch, I stopped at the original Q Shack<\/a>, where the sub-$10 pulled pork shoulder sandwich complete with a side of mac n’ cheese, hush puppies, and sweet tea made for a satisfying end to the day. On Sunday, I continued to populate my home with more household goods and groceries. My full-day shopping circuit included trips to Target<\/a>, Walmart<\/a>, Bed Bath & Beyond<\/a>, Home Depot<\/a>, Ross<\/a>, Dollar Tree<\/a>, Kroger<\/a>, and Li Ming<\/a>. Needless to say, it was a very unproductive weekend in terms of work. But step by step, I was beginning to turn my new pad into a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I started to settle into my new apartment, I decided to look for some furniture this weekend. With the budget of a fellow’s salary, that meant looking on Craigslist and going yard sale hunting. To my surprise, a web … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}