That Time We Bought Dining Chairs Off The Side Of The Road

Last night, we had Hannah and Robin over for dinner. We always enjoy their company so it was a fun evening. Leading up to the weekend, we kept looking at our new dining room table and thinking how funny it will be when we have a home cooked meal, guests, a table, and no chairs to sit in. We figured we'd just go Japanese style and sit on throw pillows on the floor around the coffee table. We're an easy-going clan so I don't think anyone would have thought much of it.

Yesterday around noon, Dan asked if I wanted to go for a walk to one of the furniture stands on the side of the road. Apparently, there are some sizable ones not far from our compound so we figured why not? We can go and look and if we don't see anything we like, we will turn around and come home. We tried to look as scrubby as possible in work out clothes and didn't bring wallets. How did we bring the cash, you ask? Ah, well it was cleverly transported in what Dan affectionately refers to as my "butt pocket". Now before you think "well, that's gross", it is simply a zipper pocket located at my lower back in my work out pants. HAHA, gotcha.

So off we went... Here are some pictures of what the inventory looks like:

Photo credit: here

We roamed up and down a few times looking for dining table chairs and some outdoor patio furniture. We asked a gentleman the price of the four chairs (the ones we eventually bought), he said 600 cedis. Dan walked away. The guy yells back at him "How much you pay?! 500 cedis!" So we keep walking back and forth still browsing. Finally, we went back to the guy and Dan said 350. The guy said no, he couldn't take that. We eventually settled on 400 cedis for the 4 chairs, which for those of you in USD that's about $120 or $30 a chair. Quite reasonable for handcrafted goods with a hell of a story. Threw them in the back of a station wagon taxi and back to our flat we went.

So these are our new, locally-made, legit side-of-the-road purchased dining table chairs:

Next up off the side of the road: balcony/patio furniture :)