Anybody who knows about The Armoire knows that it has been for sale for about 3 years now. It was a wonderful piece of furniture that really served it's purpose!
Oh the Armoire! When trying to have our Estate Sale we were hoping that this piece of furniture was one of the first to be sold! But alas, it was not! Here is how the Lord blessed us in the sale of our beautiful Armoire...
Through the Estate Sale many people were very interested but no one wanted to pay what we were asking. And our asking price kept going down about each day that our sale continued. We had a couple of serious interests but once everything was said and done, no takers. We resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to have to donate it with the rest of our stuff that was left.
We had a phone call the last Thursday of our sale (Friday was the last day of our Estate Sale) and the gentlemen seemed very interested. He was a Southern student engaged to be married in June and was very interested in the furniture. We sent him some pictures of the drawers as he remeasured his hallway, to make sure that it would fit.
He had called back to let us know that he only had about a 2" clearance and didn't think it would fit. We were really bummed because we thought for sure that he was going to purchase it [at this point we had dropped the price down from $1000 to $500]. With Friday being the last day of the sale, we thought our chance just went out the window!
However, that isn't the end of the story, but really just the beginning!! The gentlemen called back Friday morning and said that his fiance did want the piece and that he could pay only $400! I said, "SOLD"! He then preceded to tell me that he was talking with a friend of his about us going on the road doing ministry, selling all of our belongings (for the most part) and heading to Reno, NV to do laymen training. He said that his friend wanted to make a donation to our ministry that would match our original asking price! ($1000!!!)
WOW! were we blown away! Praise the Lord, here we thought we would never sell this piece of furniture. The piece that we hoped would go first, went last. And in the end we got our original asking price!
After searching all over Chattanooga, it seems, we finally found an open trailer to move this Armoire (apparently everybody was moving that weekend because not 1 truck was available). We got it loaded up nicely and 4 Southern students moved it into this guys apartment. They had a lovely one bedroom starter apartment that held the lovely Armoire just perfectly. We were glad to see it go to such a nice couple who will enjoy it for a long time!
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