Last night Kim and I picked up 20 boxes of "wood laminate flooring":http://www.kronotexusa.com/flooring-details.asp?DecorNumber=D755 from a local building supply warehouse. At only $1.10 per sq foot, it was just about the cheapest price I've seen for this particular brand, either online or in a store. The 20 boxes and 5 rolls of "underlayment":http://www.goldcoastflooring.com/quietwalk.html just barely fit in the hoopty, so no need for 2 trips. I'm going to have to go back for more anyway... what we got yesterday will cover about 500 sq ft, and we're looking at doing somewhere around 1000 sq ft total. Carpet has been fully ripped up in one of the bedrooms, exposing the concrete subfloor. The boxes of flooring are laid out all over the house so they can get acclimated to the temperature/humidity of the house before I start "installing":http://www.kronotexusa.com/installclic2clic_lowes.asp. I'll be picking up a table saw with my gift card to Sears that I received from my lovely mother later on this week. This weekend I should actually be able to start putting planks down! I'm sure there will be lots of pictures, stories, and most of all cursing for you to read about.