Eric brought home two cube organizers yesterday, a four-cube and an eight-cube. The day before that, he brought home an A.C. unit. A while before that, he brought home a hide-a-bed couch. Before that, a big, beautiful armoire. Before that, two pretty couches.

All from his customers. All free. (Or at least, free until he decided to pay something for some of them.)

Getting all that stuff for "free" is pretty amazing, but not as amazing as exactly when we got it all.

The two matching couches were given to us soon after we moved into this house. If they’d been offered to us when we lived in our little house in Newberg, we wouldn’t have had room for them. As it was, I’d been wanting to put a couch in our guest room here, and what with having such a big living room, we needed something else to fill it up. The couches Eric’s customer gave us did the job perfectly. They even somewhat matched the couches we already had. We didn’t need more couches, but to get them just right after we’d been talking about wanting another set felt a bit like a hug from God.

The armoire was from the same customer, and at first it sat in our entryway looking bulky and out of place, beautiful as it was. Then I decided to move it into our room and use it for a coat closet, and it’s been just perfect. Again, we didn’t need it, and before we had it we didn’t know we wanted it, but it was given to us, and it is so useful. Another little hug from God. ...continue reading →