Lets face it, it’s still ugly out there. Businesses are closing, stores are shutting down, liquidation sales are happening everywhere we turn.

This is a great time to acquire used items for your office. Office furniture, art, computers are all being sold off at bargain basement prices. This is your chance to upgrade some furniture and equipment with the gear recently purchased by high flying ventures that couldn’t survive the downturn.

Years ago, during an earlier recession, we bought up 50 art prints from a defunct management consulting firm for one tenth of their original price. Those framed prints decorated our offices for years.

There are amazing deals on used furniture and computers. Now is the time to buy up computer monitors and printers as they have very little value on the used market and are usually compatible with the latest computers. Furniture deals abound. You may find opportunities to acquire new office furniture without paying anything other than the cost of moving it out of the rented space of the bankrupt business. Many used items are in like new condition.