Surviving the boxing day sales

[mrsbrown]

Is it surviving when you go to IKEA to return a christmas present and come out with $3000 worth of kitchen doors?

Is it better when you only pay $260 for the doors?

What about when you go to Bunnings to get hinges for the doors, only to find that the IKEA hinges are cheaper and better, but the new toilet seat will be really nice?

Of course, then you have to go back into IKEA to get the hinges that are cheaper and better...

But are they cheaper if you then buy a rail and hooks for hanging the frypans... and a bunch of shelves to make the bathroom shelving you've been talking about for a while?

And then you have to go to a hardware shop for timber for the carcass....I wonder what I'll find there?

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The laundry, with it's new doors, looks lovely. And the new cabinet in the bathroom is rather large, but will be great in the new kitchen.

The free dishwasher works. It has a light and a detergent dispenser that works and it doesn't leak. It's previous owner described it as, "working like a Swiss watch". It does work well, but we don't think that Swiss watches are usually so loud.

Comments

[celsa.livejournal.com]

If Swiss Watches cleaned my dishes, I wouldn't mind the noise. ;-)

[pseudicide.livejournal.com]

Well, you did get things you wanted, and were looking for eventually... And on sale!

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Excellent haul!

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

Actually, Swatches are some of the loudest ticking watches in the universe.

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

yes, but my credit card is wimpering.

Despite the bargains, I can't allow myself to set foot inside that shop!

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

Quite a nice contribution to my holiday activities too.

[sacred-chao.livejournal.com]

Mine's not although it's only a couple of days old, so perhaps the tick needs to wear in properly.

[pseudicide.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling I go for one or two things, and the next thing I know, I've spent a few hundred. Sigh.