The Easiest Way to Refinish Your Floors

I've been agonizing for months about refinishing the floor in my spare room / former rental room / the once and future office.

The room is nearly bare now and now would be the time to do it. The first issue was when I could find the time to do it and then recover from doing it.

I set in stone that I'll be taking off next Thursday and Friday.

I totted up the numbers to see about how much it would cost me to do it, renting the floor sander and the edger, buying the various grits of sandpaper, the polyurethane. It came out to about $150, but knowing that projects always go over budget, figured anywhere from $175 - $200.

Even with the Xtreme Thrift program in place (okay, dinner out Friday night was not free, but I'm not perfect, k?), I knew it would be cutting things close. I would forego this week's grocery trip. I've been making do with $20/week for gas for the car, which means I go to work and come home.

But yesterday, I got the quarterly bill from the Pleasantville Sewer Department for $100.

This is easy, then. I just move all my rickety office furniture back into the office and call it done.

There is no easier way to refinish your floors than not to refinish them.

So that's that, then, and that's done.