Is there anything worse than furniture shopping?

[susandennis]

Before that, however... I forgot to mention that on my way from the pool to the Mercedes place, I pulled into McDonald's for a sausage biscuit and coffee. Drive Thru. When it came time to pay, I stuck out my phone and she stuck out her card beeper thing and BEEP! It was a done deal. WAY easier, faster than cash and with a paper trail that is already stored away for me. I like it a lot. I have spent $0 cash since last Wednesday.

I made 8 breakfast burritos this morning. 2 in the fridge and the rest in the freezer. I feel breakfast wealthy.

I didn't have anything for lunch so I whipped up a little quiche with some left over havarti and put it in the Advantium oven (which does not heat up the house). I usually cook them for 30 minutes. 10 minutes in, of course, John calls to say my car's ready. They said they would pick me up in 20 minutes. The lunch math was broken. So I checked the quiche at 20 minutes and it looked good. Turns out, it only wanted 20 minutes of cooking!! And it was delicious. Note to self, don't overcook those suckers any more.

The car cost $325. But it is cool as a cuke. Yeah!!!

I decided to go on down to the Lazy Boy store. They only had one of the two that I wanted to see but it showed me enough to know that it is OK, not great not even good just OK. And would take 8 -12 weeks to get and would cost $200 to deliver and, no, they will not take away my old couch when they deliver... but, here's the major WTF. This OK chair? $2k all in. The other one that they didn't even have "I can show you a picture" would be $3K all in. NFW. No thank you. It was pretty clear they weren't that interested in selling me anything anyway.

There are about a dozen furniture stores near there. Most are cut rate, not my style stores. There are two that are more modern/mid-centuryish so I went to those. No joy in either the furniture or the service. I found some more OK but not good enough options at Macy's and at least a sales person there who pretended she would like to help me buy. Macy's, by the way, had far more and more attractive options for recliner chairs than Lazy Boy did.

There is a lot of furniture that comes in 50 shades of brown. And gray and black. Ugh.

So home I came. I think my plan is going to be to get rid of my current uncomfortable brown sofa and move the love seat that is in the bedroom back into here and just wait for inspiration.

I dropped off my latest Amazon return at the Amazon Fresh location and got a free banana ... Score!

My instapot arrived and I did a test with water like you are supposed to. Pretty slick. Tonight is chicken - pressure cooked with leftover cheese potatoes (microwave) and either sugar snap peas or pears. This will be a fine test of how much cooking/prep I'm up for. Mainly, my plan is to use the instapot (which, turns out to really be instant pop - i don't know why I keep leaving out the t and the space) to make big batches of freezer fodder. And fast, perfect rice.

But not today.

Comments

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Furniture stores are always so awful. Like the one that had all the electric reclining sofas in the middle of the room so they couldn't be plugged in.

[susandennis]

it's just amazing that any furniture ever gets sold.

[becomingkate.livejournal.com]

I have an insta-pot and I hear they're all the rage but I'm kind of afraid of it. LOL

[susandennis]

i get that. but at the price i paid, i'm happy if it's only a rice maker and a crock pot. i still come out ahead.

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

2k & 3k with $200 shipping I would have spit in there face right there.If I’m gonna spend 3 grand on a peice of furniture I better get fucking free shipping 👹👺👹

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I like my instant pot, but not for everything. It's one of those appliances that you have to try out a bit and discover its strengths.

I love these new phone pay things. I envision the day where all I have to carry is my phone.

[colestainedpage.livejournal.com]

After mom passed, we randomly stopped at a local furniture store and bought a new sectional sofa and ottoman. It was pretty, and comfortable, and delivery was only $70 I think. The whole shebang came to about $1600.

Have you thought about Ikea? https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/sofas_armchairs/

[susandennis]

That's what I need .. a random stumble over the solution. I honestly would pay $3k for the most perfect answer.

I had looked at IKEA and your link made me look again. Their loveseats are all too big and the one chair they have that might work comes in ugly colors. Sigh.

The search goes on.

[colestainedpage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the one thing I don't like much about Ikea is their color/pattern choices.

Good luck!

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

Bryan really wants a couch with built in recliners. But the couch we'd be replacing is a really pretty green one that I love, and all the couches with recliners just look the same to me...

[susandennis]

i hear ya

[fauxklore]

I think chairs are particularly difficult. I should really have taken my Dad's armchair but decided shipping it from the house after my mother died was too much hassle.

I like Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams as far as design, but my budget is more West Elm, alas.

[susandennis]

I was surprised to discover that Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams had nothing that attracted me at all. It looks like they should but they don't. And zero wide seat chairs. But, West Elm could be a contenda.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

We love our instapot, especially for rice

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

Furniture shopping...SO AWFUL!! Why????

[susandennis]

because every store has the same boring stuff - beige and brown furniture that looks like it is destined for a motel 6. and the sales people could care less about whether or not they wait on me and lose even more interest when I tell them what I want (because they don't have it).