curtains!
Last night I stopped at Walmart on the way to my mom's house for American Idol--wait a sec. Hang on. I can't believe I just typed that sentence, and it's true. Dear God. ANYWAY--because I needed cat food and stuff. I decided to look at curtains while I was there, because I still need curtains for the living room. And I found some perfect ones! They're the right colors, and they're stripey and not too thick so light will still get in, and they tie up, so the fact that they're too long for the window won't be a problem. And of course, Walmart only had one. I need two. I wrote down the style so I could look them up on the website later, which I did (um, obviously, I just linked to it), and I ordered two of them. And the Walmart website offers this neat thing where they'll ship to a local store for free and you can pick up your order there. I thought, hey neat! and punched in my zip code. Well, apparently no stores in my area--not the two that are closest to me, not the ones a little farther away, and none of the ones WITHIN A 100 MILE RADIUS--participate in this ship-to-store thing! What the hell, Walmart? Why do you even include it as an option on your website if none of the stores on the freakin' eastern seaboard participate?
So I had to pay $8.94 for shipping. That was the cheapest option. The curtains themselves were only $10.88 each, which is a pretty good price, so I don't mind too too much since I would probably be paying a lot more for them if I'd gotten them at Boscov's or something. I figure I'm about breaking even in cost (between getting them from Walmart plus shipping versus getting other curtains at another store in person--plus I haven't been able to find any I liked at any other stores). But dang! If the stupid Walmart near my mom's house had just had two of the curtains, that would have saved me nine bucks. Argh. I am using my Bob the Builder icon for this post because it's pretty darn descriptive of Walmart.
But I did find a really awesome table runner to put on my short bookshelves, the ones that sit back-to-back next to my couch. Now, from the top, they look more like an end table because the runner covers the edge where the two bookshelves meet. If that makes sense. Um, wait, here, I'll show you:
So, those little bookshelves, right next to the couch, that's what I'm talking about, and the runner covers the seam between the bookshelves. It's a sort of bamboo-looking table runner, all natural and crap, so it goes well with the room. And the bookshelves look like a one-piece thing now, instead of two bookshelves I just stuck there. It looks super nice!
So I had to pay $8.94 for shipping. That was the cheapest option. The curtains themselves were only $10.88 each, which is a pretty good price, so I don't mind too too much since I would probably be paying a lot more for them if I'd gotten them at Boscov's or something. I figure I'm about breaking even in cost (between getting them from Walmart plus shipping versus getting other curtains at another store in person--plus I haven't been able to find any I liked at any other stores). But dang! If the stupid Walmart near my mom's house had just had two of the curtains, that would have saved me nine bucks. Argh. I am using my Bob the Builder icon for this post because it's pretty darn descriptive of Walmart.
But I did find a really awesome table runner to put on my short bookshelves, the ones that sit back-to-back next to my couch. Now, from the top, they look more like an end table because the runner covers the edge where the two bookshelves meet. If that makes sense. Um, wait, here, I'll show you:
So, those little bookshelves, right next to the couch, that's what I'm talking about, and the runner covers the seam between the bookshelves. It's a sort of bamboo-looking table runner, all natural and crap, so it goes well with the room. And the bookshelves look like a one-piece thing now, instead of two bookshelves I just stuck there. It looks super nice!