Radio Free Akron: If You Can't Do Something Nice...

So, remember last time when we had grand plans to buy a couch and a loveseat when we got our income tax return? Those plans have been derailed.

We ventured to Value City Furniture last night to visit and probably buy the couch/loveseat combination we wanted. When we got there, we suffered a case of sticker shock. See, when we looked at this couch/loveseat the other night, it was $599 for the pair, which... was expensive enough to make us feel really guilty about considering it, but cheap enough for something we really wanted that we figured out we could do it with a little adjustment here and there in our budget.

However, last night, the price sign said $799, a big difference. The sign had been switched with the one of the nearby (far inferior) couch. And this wasn't a case of bait-and-switch on the part of Value City... the tags and numbers as they were last night were legit based on the names of the couches. It's just the other night, when we first got the idea, they were wrong.

I blame children. It's just reason number 6,450,224 to never, EVER, EVER have kids.

So, balking at the prospect of spending more than $900 (including tax and delivery) on furniture, we left and visited a number of other stores. We went from places where the employees looked down their noses at us (like La-Z-Boy Furniture Gallery) to a place that we looked down the nose at (Furniture and Bedding Liquidators).

Okay, the Liquidators place was just creepy, with no marked (or fixed) prices, greasy too-friendly salesmen and furniture straight out of a rockstar's apartment in the 1980s. AWFUL.

We've got a list of places to hit today once Amy's off of work. We're starting at the lowest of lows (Salvation Army) and working up through Goodwill and other used furniture places.

We wanted something comfortable. Comfort will just have to wait, again, until I get a real job.

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