A very expensive day
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carbonelToday, I had the blind guy over. No, not someone vision-impaired, but someone to sell me window treatments for my living room. I redid the place three years ago, and have been living with naked windows (glass sliding doors and two big side windows) ever since. I finally got myself in gear by purchasing a Living Social coupon that gave me $250 worth of merchandise for $75. I expected the whole thing to be considerably more than that, but this got me moving to make the appointment before March 3, when the coupon expired.
In three weeks I should have window treatments on my windows. I definitely get the feeling that prices on these things are, like the Pirate Code, more of a guideline. He quoted me a price, then said that there was a 30% coupon floating around that he’d apply to my account, plus a $50 discount for something or other. Then I mentioned the Living Social coupon, and he said that didn’t apply to the line of products I’d selected. Note that I’d selected that particular line of products because that was what was in the books he offered me. He did offer to go back to his van and get the sample books from the other line, but I really didn’t want to start again. I asked if he’d take off the amount I actually paid for the coupon, and he agreed to that right away. Fair enough.
Honestly, I have no idea if it was a good price or not, but in the end I paid around $1,100 for vertical cloth blinds on the sliding doors and honeycomb cloth-like blinds on the two big windows. I’m just so glad to have this taken care of.
And after that, I just spent $4,999 on an Angie’s List coupon (theoretical value $9,000) to have my bathroom remodeled. I’ve been wanting to do something about the bathroom for a long time. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, but it’s rooted in 1950s décor. I mean, there’s a blue toilet and bathtub. And tile on the walls. Etc. What I’d really like is more space, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. But I’ll settle for a place to hang a towel and a nice shower. And less blue, at least of that color blue. It’s the avocado green and harvest gold of blue, if you know what I mean.
I'll have my appointment with the bathroom guy sometime in the next couple of weeks, after which doubtless I will be posting about just how much more it costs and how much longer it takes than I expected.
In three weeks I should have window treatments on my windows. I definitely get the feeling that prices on these things are, like the Pirate Code, more of a guideline. He quoted me a price, then said that there was a 30% coupon floating around that he’d apply to my account, plus a $50 discount for something or other. Then I mentioned the Living Social coupon, and he said that didn’t apply to the line of products I’d selected. Note that I’d selected that particular line of products because that was what was in the books he offered me. He did offer to go back to his van and get the sample books from the other line, but I really didn’t want to start again. I asked if he’d take off the amount I actually paid for the coupon, and he agreed to that right away. Fair enough.
Honestly, I have no idea if it was a good price or not, but in the end I paid around $1,100 for vertical cloth blinds on the sliding doors and honeycomb cloth-like blinds on the two big windows. I’m just so glad to have this taken care of.
And after that, I just spent $4,999 on an Angie’s List coupon (theoretical value $9,000) to have my bathroom remodeled. I’ve been wanting to do something about the bathroom for a long time. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, but it’s rooted in 1950s décor. I mean, there’s a blue toilet and bathtub. And tile on the walls. Etc. What I’d really like is more space, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. But I’ll settle for a place to hang a towel and a nice shower. And less blue, at least of that color blue. It’s the avocado green and harvest gold of blue, if you know what I mean.
I'll have my appointment with the bathroom guy sometime in the next couple of weeks, after which doubtless I will be posting about just how much more it costs and how much longer it takes than I expected.
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