Yes, I've been wicker furniture shopping... Who would have thought it, huh - Hundreds and hundreds of different kinda wicker to buy????? Why Lord, why? My hatred for shopping just continues during this ever-so new dilemma. First, I thought I'd just shop via the internet, and cut all the bologna out of it altogether. Go ahead, try it: put Wicker Furniture in a search engine. Go ahead, I dare you! Anyway, I gave up shopping via the internet for it; you have no idea what quality it is (geez, I kinda just sounded like I know what I'm talking about, coooool!) I succumbed to the fact that this is something I must shop-in-person for. I started off with the local stuff, Pier 1, K-Mart, Target, etc.... Yep, you got it... It looked like K-Mart too. Then I went to Lancaster to Buck's Furniture (they sell Lloyd Flanders - gosh, I think I really do know what I'm talking about, dropping the name-brands!). Ok, no one told me that I'd have to re-mortgage my house in order to furnish my Sunroom! The picture above is the piece that I fell in love with; there will be no substitutes, although, Pat simply cannot go to college if I purchase this, and its' accompanying pieces. Yes, while I loved it, I can't buy it.
Today, I went to Wicker East which I discovered is no longer on the East, it's on the West Shore now. I liked a lot of things over there, and I think Pat can still go to college if I purchase the things there. It wasn't Lloyd Flanders, but it was still nice. Did you know there's natural, synthetic, indoor, outdoor, indoor and outdoor, all weather, some weather, four seasons, washable, paintable, etc... OMG! It was insanity! Plus, some only last 10 years, others 20, some 30, and get this: some last a lifetime! I don't know if I actually want my wicker to last a lifetime....I'm not sure they'll let me take it to the Home, will they?
If one of my dear friends out there, who loves to shop, wants to pick us out some nice things at a nice wicker store, call me for Joe's credit card number and I'll gladly give it to you. Pick something nice; a natural, perhaps a stripe fabric, with greens, yellows, or tans.... a nice sofa so that I can relax and read on, so that Pat can snooze on (NO GREYHOUNDS ALLOWED), and a nice chair, with an ottoman for Joe, a nice coffee table/or end table... See, that's not so bad, now is it? Uh huh, just go ahead and try it! Then, come home with an idea, tell your husband who happens to have a completely different idea than you do, and start all over again....
I can imagine what my friend Nicole is saying about me now???? Ha!!!!! GF, I gave up on the bedroom chair.... I can't handle it. I think I have ADHD of the shopping gene. Nicole, if you really were my friend, you'd help me.
If any of you have any suggestions for me, pls. call...before I commit myself.
(This very well may be exactly like the bedroom project, Nicole: it may never get done at all!)
8 comments:
I will gladly go out a buy you sunroom furniture, a bedroom chair, and anything else you tell me you need - hand over Joe's credit card. I will find something that will suit the whole family however I don't work well with budgets (especially when its not my money)!
I love the piece you also fell in love with. Come on girl, don't settle, go for it...Pat has a few years until college.
Can you say "shopping is fun!!?" You tell me when you want to go and I'll be happy to go with you and we'll make it fun -- hey, if we need to give you a few glasses of wine before we go, I'll be happy to be the designated driver and control Joe's credit card. Just ask Mike, I'm really good at it.
If you'd give up the idea of striped fabric, and instead select something with a nice guitar print, Joe won't care how much money you spend!
Hey, your kid an always work his own way through college as long as you're comfortable reading in your sunroom on the wicker furniture you love!
Very funny comments my friends! ha! I love it! Especially the wine one... I need to get liquored up before I shop... hmmm, I never even thought of that! Thx Ei!
So this is what married life is like... And I thought that all of Joes horror stories about it are the result of too many Lovecraft stories---
Joe, I shall never ever doubt you again. I feel with you, buddy!
YOU MUST BE KIDDIN' ME JENS....HE HAS YOU BRAINWASHED FOR SURE!!! If you want the truth, you must call me, immediately.... His stories are all false. Trust me Jens, he died and went to heaven in this house! All my other friends would have thrown him and his clothes out the window by now!
What's all this crazy talk about Joe's credit card? Daddy needs a new guitar!
ANOTHER guitar??! Now, that's crazy talk. What about me and my M3??!
Just a suggestion, Uncle Joe. If you really want another guitar.
Start pushing for a sports car again... Then act really dejected when you're forced to compromise and only buy a new guitar. Also, at all costs avoid any conversation about that time when you sold her car to buy a big screen TV.
:)
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