As I’ve gotten older I’ve taken on my Mom’s affinity for looking at home magazines, and looking past the old items at estate sales to see the home design present. All the designs I’ve seen have gotten me excited about furnishing my own home someday and since high school graduation, I’ve been collecting home items. My sister and I realized that we didn’t want to pay full price for furniture, and other items we would need, and we didn’t want to buy it all at once, so we started adding home essentials to birthday lists. We also started saving items for ourselves that my parents had replaced and were happy…