Moving into new apartment

All of Thursday, September 23 and Friday morning we spent looking online for used stuff for our apartment as we waited for the money to come through to our Australian bank to make the first payment on the apartment. We located a couple used beds that looked good and were in the right price range. We went to several furniture stores to check out prices on new beds and remind ourselves of the difference between a cheap and expensive mattresses. We looked at a couple beds ad decided on one and told the owner we would be by tomorrow to pay for it and pick it up. We also located a washing machine that was not emptying all the water for $80. After having solved a similar problem on my parents' washing machine of the same brand I figured this would be a simple fix and a good deal. It barely fit in the back of our car filling up the entire back seat and trunk area and the front seats had to be moved all the way forward making it difficult to drive, but we got it safely home. When we finally got the call that the apartment was ready to move into we jumped into action by renting a Ute (small pickup with a flatbed, very common here) and running down to pick up our bed and deliver it to our apartment. We had to disassemble the bed frame to get it up the stairs but that turned out to be a good thing as I discovered the previous owners had assembled the frame wrong in a way that would make the bed uncomfortable.