So, I have my floorplan, my sketches, dimensions, price list, et al. I've been working on getting the shelves and stuff for the past two years so none of this was an impulse buy, it's all been carefully planned. As such, I had the unreasonable expectation that my items would actually be in stock. Oh no. Not at all. I'm going to have to place a phone order and pay extra $$ for the delivery. At this point, I'd pay anything to avoid the aggravation of driving almost an hour in traffic, pushing my way through the shuffling hordes of bored city people, and locating the items I want only to see on the tag "ITEM IS TEMPORARILY OVERSOLD."
Big'ol found the phrasing of that very interesting. While most of the bored city people would find it European and quaint, Big'ol sees it as a reflection of the socialist psychology found in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. The typical phrase "Out of Stock" puts the onus on the company. It's the company's fault there aren't any items for you to buy, but they'll be restocking soon. "Item is Temporarily Oversold" suggests there would be plenty of items left if only those pesky customers hadn't bought so many. The item will only be restocked if it won't foil some other part of the management master plan or isn't too much of a hassle.
Oh, IKEA. How I love and hate you.
*snort* Does IKEA have the option to have an item shipped to the closest store, then you can go and pick it up and avoid the shipping costs? Probably not, considering it's attitude toward the shoppers who actually make it into the store!
Well, I have been gardening ALL DAY for the past two days. We dug our bed down really deep...20 inches deep... and lined it with hardware cloth which we cut to fit and literally sewed the seams with wire. Then we filled it back in and positioned the concrete blocks. I intend to get some garden soil mix and fill it up to the top. I'm uploading pictures right now...will post a link here in a bit.
Hopefully we won't loose anything to gophers from this bed.