Comments on: Furniture

By: Janie

Janie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:59:49 +0000

I just read your furniture story. Funny, but I hate that it was at your actual “expense”. I HATE Mathis Brothers…..actually, I pretty much hate the whole furniture business! It’s a long story…I sold furniture for a so-called ‘living’ for a short time. I am NOT the sales type person…hence the past tense. (I’m not a liar nor can I practice to decieve.) I am familiar with the warrenty that you mentioned buying. It is actually a “furniture protection plan” aimed at getting just a little more of your hard earned money and lining the pockets of the salesman and store owner. (It rarely pays out and on the ocassion that it might, it’s like removing a limb.) Funny thing is, it would have covered the cushion’s replacement or repair after you accidently burned it. But, you MUST follow the fine print to a perverbial T in order for that to happen. My best advice regarding furniture is don’t expect it to last so don’t spend a whole lot of money on it. Most furniture these days comes in a container from China regardless of what ‘they’ tell you. It isn’t solid wood, it’s a molded acrylic plastic substance made to look like wood; and it’s not wood veneered over hard wood, it’s a picture of wood glued to something other than an American hardwood. It’s all done with smoke and mirrors aimed at sucking every last penny of your hard earned money for the next 3 years so that you can have something pretty to look at as long as you don’t use it for what it suggests… sitting on. Have a good one!

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:11:17 +0000

“One day I accidentally burned one of the cushions by putting out a sock that was on fire. ”

I have just spat Dr Pepper all over my screen. That quote sounds like one of those mastercard ads. priceless..

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:26:28 +0000

I hate to admit it, but there have been nights during the pregnancies when I would have loved to have the sleepy blue recliners back. Man could I nap in those things! Just take comfort in knowing that, had we kept them, the kids would have dismembered them by now surely anyway.

By: Mom

Mom — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:18:18 +0000

Some of your blogs should come with a warning to not be read in a quiet environment if one does not want to draw attention to oneself. The vision of you first setting a sock on fire and then trying to put it out brought tears of laughter to my eyes. Only my son! Enjoy the new furniture, and don’t set the house on fire again! Mom