We really did. Towels, bedding, a real coffee maker, knives, picture frames (as if we needed more of those - BF's a photographer, I'm a painter, we have zero wall space left to hang stuff but we'll keep finding small gaps and filling them anyway)...
We didn't have much before, but we were surviving OK. Some of it was a total surprise, and some of it we knew about in advance. Either way, it's nice to have nice things (you know, knives that didn't come from the Dollarama). We also got a photoshoot from BF's Mom's BF. Now we really have no reason to get married anytime in the next few years. I mean, really, why get married when you don't need the presents or the pictures? (I'm totally kidding, BTW.)
And the icing on the new-stuff for the apartment cake is...the leather couch, which is only a couple years old, we're getting off someone BF's Mom knows for $350 because she's moving to NY. Our old couch is on its way to the dump as I type. There were physical holes in the cushions where you could pull stuffing out if you wanted to. Not a pretty sight, but we were going to wait until the fall when we were both back to full-time work to replace it until this deal came up.
I'm just so excited! I feel like our apartment just got all grown up haha, Next improvement: A shower head that actually sprays water, doesn't just kind of dribble it out. Any recommendations for that or for where I might find nice but cheap curtains to match our new duvet cover in Canada?
Also, tell me anything else. What's new? What's exciting? How have your holidays been so far? When do you have to go back to reality?