Examples: early 1900's dining table with 4 chairs - $150, leather sofa in very good condition - $99, various end tables and coffee tables - $50, bed frames and headboards - $50 or less.

For example, instead of using a bedframe/headboard with a boxspring and mattress, she'll use two boxsprings on top of plastic upside-down buckets and a custom headboard (total cost less than $100).Here are a couple examples of bedrooms...the first room probably cost $300 total, the second two rooms were probably $150 total:http://123flip.com/wp-content/uploads/Trifecta_House/Staging/6.jpghttp://www.123flip.com/wp-content/uploads/Poor_House/Staging/KidsBedroom.jpghttp://123flip.com/wp-content/uploads/Escher_House/Staging/masterbr.jpgAs another example, this living room was the center-piece of the house, and was probably about $500 in total:http://123flip.com/wp-content/uploads/Escher_House/Staging/living.jpgAnother thing to keep in mind is that one of the big reasons for staging is to get great pictures to market the property.

Nightstands (you put them together), bed frames and headboards, mattresses (typically just queens - we buy better king mattresses locally), and lots of decor options just by doing a quick key word search for your location/style (for example I did a kid's room and furnished with these cool Smokey the Bear tin art works - about $30 each). 

If you don't need to be fancy skip the fancy bed and just get a frame and wall headboard with nice coverings and lots of pillows.

One bullet went through a window and into her roommate's head board.

One of the top branches on the tree snapped off from a gust of wind, and like a spear it went through the roof, and into her master bedroom, piercing the headboard of her bed and the pillow where she was sleeping.Needless to say, she moved out in fear, and since that day, we have cut down any trees in reach of any homes we own. 

With regards to the headboard, I have had it in a house in the past and I am hit or miss on the look.

IKEA furniture is another story though, I also bought a couple of dressers and a bed frame and headboard, etc and that was barely above junk in my opinion!

The headboard was torn up, paint scruff marks everywhere, funky smell, the cleaners were using black sheets and black comforters (like why would you do that).

Don't use heavy looking furniture, but light and airy pieces-  like an open airy headboard with no footboard (as opposed to solid wood with a footboard), mirrored side tables, a lucite chair, etc.