bed adventures (wink wink)

So we've been investigating options for new beds lately. We are currently sleeping on a bed that Mark's mother kindly kept in storage for us, but it's not one of those awesome antique things she kept for us - it's just an old bed - so in the long term we'd like to get a nice new mattress and a purdy bed frame.

We had already gone to Sears a few weeks ago and found a mattress that was nice to lay on. We went today to Leon's (don't laugh; it's Canadian made) to look at some stuff we'd found online, and they didn't actually have any of the stuff we liked online in the store. We got some info on a great enviro-friendly mattress, looked at a few bed frames that might be passable, and went home.

Now Ikea. Oh, Ikea. Why are your shipping fees so confusing? They are so confusing, they absolutely defeated me. We'd already been online looking at the Ikea stuff earlier in the week, and shipping fees were weird. Mark didn't remember looking so this morning he made me pull up the website again just to show him how complicated it was. The website still had those weird slats (the things they use instead of box-springs, which we actually had in Victoria and loved) in my shopping cart from when I'd looked the other day, and I picked a bed at random and started the order process, making fun of it the whole way. You see, halfway through the order process last time, they calculated the shipping fees for me, and then I stopped and closed the window.

That didn't happen this time. Before we got to the shipping fees screen, we were suddenly at a very nice screen that thanked me for my order. WHAT??! OH NO!!! I accidentally ordered a bed from Ikea.

We got on the phone to them and they said not to worry - someone will call me in the next day or so to confirm, and I can just tell them I don't want it. I blamed Mark for making me try to show him the shipping costs, and that was when we went to Leon's. The thing about Leon's is, that, their bed frames are a tad expensive, and they try to force you to use a box-spring and we don't want to.

When we got back home we lazed around reading books and surfing the net. Mark was reading a neat book we got as a gift - it's an environmentally friendly shopping guide for Canadian products. He told me that they kept saying how good Ikea was, so we decided to see if there was actually anything we liked from Ikea. After all, even with the shipping charges, it would likely be cheaper than Leon's. We looked at EVERY SINGLE ONE, and ya know what? Our favourite is the one we already accidentally ordered that I picked at random.

I guess we'll... keep it?

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