Frustrating

[cornerofmadness]

Mom calls like three times this morning (between painting the living roomo) to encourage me to just go buy the mattress. You deserve it (my parents are very frustrated that my life has turned out to be so much worse than theirs financially) she says. I think on the sign in the store, don't think of it as 1700$, think of it as 33 cents a night. Okay, when you put it that way.

My problem, such as it is, anything less than the best isn't going to do because I foolishly laid down on the best (well actually that's the temperpedic, this would be second best at half the price...) and I do deserve it. My body is torn up. I don't sleep well. The doctors are concerned by this and think a good portion of my problems could be helped if I slept better. Okay...I really could swing the price of the bed. I DO have a lot of money saved and I should spent it before the loan bastards take it all.

The other problem is, I'm in love with the wooden beds. LOVE. But they're out of my price range sort of. I could do it (Points up) but I live in an apartment and these things would overpower even larger rooms in a house. I need to not like big massive things (I could never do Asian minimalism.) I need to go to other stores first today and look at other furniture so i can decide what to do. I'll get 200$ gift certificate if I buy the mattress but do I want the one and only wrought 'iron' bed they have? It's pretty but I've seen prettier. Penny's had prettier but you can't see them in the store and I have no idea if they're just all flash and no substance (which i suspect).

Why in the world do retailers make this SO hard? I mean shit, imagine going in to buy clothes or shoes but not being able to try it on...well we don't have to imagine. We just have to shop online I guess now. Which is why I don't do it often. It might look great in the catalog but unless you can touch it, how do you know what you're getting?

and the REALLY frustrating part? They will NOT work with me on the delivery. Penny's wouldn't even bring it into the house. (bite me) Big Sandy's will do everything including removing the dumb old mattress. However, they don't have their own delivery people, they contract out and can't understand why i can't miss work for this! Um because I can't, damn it, especially on a thursday. That's my once a week class taht I already missed once! If I'm shelling out 2 grand you should at least work with me.

Comments

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

That really sucks that you've having a hard time with delivery. :( I wound up having to take a or a morning off, I think. I don't remember except that I do know it was a pain in the ass to arrange something around my work schedule too.

If I were you I'd go for now just for the mattress and a basic frame and spring for an actual bed later. The mattress is the most important thing after all and I don't think it's really a stupid luxury purchase considering you have chronic health problems. I had to talk myself into getting memory foam as well but it was silly since I had chronic back pain at the time, so overall I consider it a good choice.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i know. that's what I'm probably going to do but I also see two stores in gallipolis that sell it (which is of course 20 miles in the ooposite direction of chillicothe)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

We got ours at CostCo, and they were very easy to work with on delivery (although they didn't have ones you could lie on, either; we went to a bunch of mattress places and tried similar ones so we could see if we liked it), but they don't haul away the old bed. I wanted the Temperpedic, too, but the price... yeeg.

It does make you wonder why it's so hard to get high-ticket price items...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sadly we have no Costco's (I had them in WI though, I liked them). We have mostly family run stores here and Big Sandy's...and you know I do NOT remember it being this much of a pain in my ass to get my couch from them

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

You would think that on a big ticket item, stores would make delivery a little easier.

And I agree with everyone else, it's expensive but it's a health issue.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and I bought one, slightly less expensive but not by much but from a company that made me a little less uncomfortable. And there was an extra health issue I had forgotten. dust mites can NOT live in the foam beds and I'm highly allergic so this is really going to be worth it for me!

[marenfic.livejournal.com]

What is with furniture delivery people? We had the same issues with our leather sectional being delivered.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. Here's an idea, START deliveries afternoons to early evenings when people are actually HOME.

I was so worked up I was thinking gah, wish I had those anxiety books you had suggested for me on hand. They were making me that nuts