My husband and I are adding a at home gym to our house (FYI – room already exist, just adding equipment, wanted to clear that up, lol), we just welcomed our first baby in August 2010. I am now a stay at home mom due to our daughter’s premature birth – I worked full time prior to her being born so we are trying to do this ‘work out room’ on a strict budget being that we are a one income family now. My question is does anyone know where we can get the best deals on work out equipment (online or in store)? Our budget is $1200. Any suggestions/recommendations are greatly appreciated, thanks! 
Maybe give it another month or two if possible, all the new year’s resolution people will sell off what they thought was going to work, cheap, just to get riid of it. Also try craiglist. I have a Olympic bench, squat rack and 300 lbs olymic weights, only got to use twice, before becoming unable to workout anymore, I’m so tired of looking at it, and the space it’s taking, I’m going to sell it extremely cheap, if not give it away, so again look for used stuff, another source might be play it again sports, if they are still around, it’s used equipment. Regardless of which route you go, take a little while trying it out before buying, nothing worse then crappy equipment. Personally, I’d just find something for aerobic activity, treadmill, stair climber, etc. and then buy adjustable dumbells and a bench that goes from flat to incline to sitting straight up,, you can do a lot with just dumbbells and that part will be very reasonable, even new.