Furniture Debacle

Michael and I are in the process of buying new bedroom furniture. We are so excited. The furniture we have, my parents were nice enough to let us take from my old room at their house. It is probably 15 years old, still in great shape, but it is time for a change!

We found a set that we fell in love with while we were up in Lancaster for a dinner show over Thanksgiving. I never thought I would like black furniture, but it is gorgeous! Those Amish can make some quality pieces of furniture. The bed has drawers underneath!

We love all the pieces in the set except the night tables. They were way too small for all of Michael's junk, I mean things that he keeps on it (Ipad, Ipod, phone, house phone, lamp).

So we went searching. We found nightstands that we fell in love with at The Dump, about a two hour drive from our house. This place has a ton of furniture and some really great deals. The best part about these nightstands is that the top drawer actually has electrical plugs in the drawer. This is awesome because I get so sick of seeing all of Michael's wires charging his gadgets. I need things to be clean! These drawers hide ALL of the wires, and not only that there is a night light! Great since I have to use the restroom in the middle of the night more and more these days!

We ordered them, and they came in last weekend. We made the trek up to the store to pick them up, and then headed straight home. We began to open the boxes, and OF COURSE, the first one we open has a crushed corner. I have absolutely no idea how it could have happened because the box was fine, as was the packing. This leads be to believe it was actually packed like that. Ridiculous. After spending 45 minutes on the phone with customer service, I was told we had to take it back to the store because we picked it up, they couldn't just send us another one.

Fine.

As unhappy as that made us, we didn't really have a choice, so we went right back up the next day. (Thank goodness for a three day weekend). We get up there, the technician looked at it and said yes, we did need a new one, they couldn't fix it (No kidding!). We decided to just have it delivered because we did not want to travel four more hours up and back home. They proceeded to tell us that they don't deliver to our town, so they would have to have a different store send it, Fine. The catch...it would be $500 because we were the only delivery in that area. THEY ARE OUT OF THEIR MIND. THE TABLE DIDN'T EVEN COST THAT. At this point I thought my husband was going to lose his mind, and I was trying to keep my hormones in check.

In the end, my husband said we would take the floor model, and after some checking, it was determined that we could have it. Thankfully we don't have to drive up there again. I don't think I will ever buy anything from there again. So annoying!

At least they look good in our bedroom!