Movies and mattresses
I saw Garden State tonight. I finally found enough people who saw it and liked it (and no one who saw it and didn't) to convince the friends to go with me. So glad I did. Loved it! Loved. It. If you haven't seen it, do.
I also bought a bed. Or, a mattress and box spring, specifically. I'm sitting here trying to think if it's the biggest purchase of my life, and I think it might be. The security deposit/first month's rent was the biggest check I ever wrote, but that doesn't really count as a purchase. So the bed might very well be it.
I was having some buyer's remorse today, what with having gone with the expensive bed and all. The salesman was kind of looney. We were there, no joke, almost three hours. He told some great stories of his limo driving past, with some really fabulous rock-legend passangers. He offered us weed, he told us of his dysfunctional marriage, informed us he didn't want to have S-E-X with us (yes, he spelled it), and got out at the intersection to rock out to some apparently awesome song on the radio (we were there after hours and ended up leaving at the same time he did). Yeah. *ahem* It was, er, interesting. Did I mention he was, like, sixty?
So anyway, he talked us into the expensive beds. Totally nice, amazingly comfortable, but more money than I'd planned on spending. I guess that's his job. He threw in a free bedframe, cut the delivery fee in half, took off about $100 from the regular price, AND called us back to give us free memory-foam pillows ($69 retail value, yee haw!). I was hemming and hawing this morning, though. Thinking maybe I should go back and get the $400 mattress instead.
And then we did a little research, went to another mattress chain (that promises to "never be undersold or your mattress is free"), and found out that we really did get a kickass deal for the beds we bought. The guy at Store #2 about lost his gum when he found out what we'd paid. Guess he was glad he didn't have to beat that price!
Anyway. It gets delivered next Sunday. I can't wait.
Comments
You know, your bed is where you're going to spend a lot of your time in Cali--so never feel bad about spending money on something comfortable! I don't even want to tell you HOW much FK and I spent on our bed, but it was worth it! We both need a good night's sleep and it's hard when you're already battling for the covers and room on the bed... poor guy...
Posted by: EMK | September 13, 2004 02:27 PM