Wicked Attitude

Did you know that you need to pay EXTRA to plug in a new appliance?  That’s right, just because you spend thousands of dollars on an appliance does not mean it comes with the cord you need in which to plug it in to operate it.  Mmm hmm.  You need to pay an extra $9.99 for the power cord.  When the hell did this become acceptable???  For every appliance maker out there nickel and diming the paying public by charging them for the luxury of operating their own appliance, shame on you and I hex your own appliances so you two may have to pay such a ridiculous fee for something that should be included!!

If you’re like us and ordered the Twin Draft Guards when it was oh…0 degrees outside, chances are you got a rude awakening and were told it was on backorder after you ordered.  I checked twice to see when it was coming in and was told they couldn’t give me an estimate.  We saw them at Bed, Bath and Beyond for HALF the price of what they advertise on tv for the same ones.  So we grabbed them and ran home to cancel.  Oh, surprise of surprises, they just happened to ship it that day and could not cancel the order.  (Something tells me this is their practice when people are tired of waiting, tell them it was sent and get it out the next day.)  Hubby cut them to fit and honestly, we noticed no real difference and the one on the garage door moves constantly when you open the door and you end up shutting the door on it.  Then you shove it back in its place angrily and close the door and grumble.  The box we received from them directly was badly damaged so there’s no way we could’ve sent it back without packing taping it to death which I also think was on purpose since I called to cancel and they wanted to make it harder to send it back.  Trust me, it left the factory in this condition, I highly doubt the shipping company did it.  So we’ll be taking the ones we got a Bed, Bath and Beyond back because it’s not worth having extras around the house and given how crappy they are, I’d be embarrassed to give it as a gift.

Maybe you’ll have better luck than we did but we just did not see any kind of noticeable difference and especially not one that made it worth the almost $30 we paid by the time they screwed us on shipping too.  (Because remember when you order direct you get their crappy over the door hooks to hang something on until the spot welds give out.) 

So if you’re going to buy the Twin Draft Guards, go to Bed, Bath and Beyond and get it for $9.99 and no shipping costs!

This was the question we found ourselves asking when our 13 year old dishwasher started quitting its day job of cleaning on the top rack.  Well of course you can’t replace one thing and not the rest right?  I mean you could if you wanted the same color but we don’t.  We didn’t get a choice of our appliances when we moved in so we wanted a say this time, which means stainless steel.  We started racking our brains on where to look and off we went.  Our biggest dilemma was the fridge because we have limited space (33″) with our current fridge but most are 35 7/8″ which would cover 3″ of our window that we never use.   We decided on the GE Profile series and we both really liked the features of the bigger one but felt we needed to find the smaller one to rule it out or see if we should go with it.

To hopefully save anyone else out there some time, I’ve listed what we found out there and keep in mind the prices may be different depending on your area.  We asked the same question of all of the following stores…how much to install a microwave since it’s the smallest appliance that needs to be switched out.

HH Gregg-$120 to install and they had the highest prices of anyone we looked at.  The “sale” price was the regular price listed elsewhere.

Lowes- $130 to install and our particular “salesman” was like a racist Larry the Cable guy so we decided if we went with Lowes it sure as heck wouldn’t be with him.

Sears- $159 to install and while the salesman was nice and we’d probably feel okay going with them, his talk of how badly they were cutting back hours made us feel like they were ready to close their doors anytime.

Home Depot- $99 and the saleswoman was quite possibly the most helpful person we’d encountered.  The delivery charge is refundable by rebate for the stove and fridge so it’s essentially free and the more you buy of the Profile series, you get money back in the form of a check card so we’d get back $300.

Needless to say we’ll be going with Home Depot and it’s important to know all accepted competitors coupons.  I believe that Sears was the only place that said they’d match and then beat it by 10% but I don’t know if that was a limited time thing or not. 

We also stopped by a place that sells scratch and dent appliances not because we were interested in those but because we wanted to see the 33″ model and they had a few of them in stock.  They just happened to have the bigger one and the smaller one right next to each other and that made the decision easy.  Bigger one!  I highly suggest you do this if the model you are thinking of is not in stock at places you look.  Chances are a scratch and dent place will have it and you can look before you buy.  They also save you a good $500-800.  We would’ve considered them but every one of the ones we liked were dented far beyond what we considered acceptable.

So hopefully some of our legwork will give you a place to start!

Update:  We bought ours from Home Depot who matched Sears 15% off sale at the time.  We just checked HH Gregg’s prices on the exact same models with their 20% off “sale” and we still paid $20 less for each appliance!  Bottom line, don’t buy from HH Gregg, they obviously will always be the highest price even with a supposed sale.

Seen this commercial?  Well you may THINK you have but there’s a new disgusting twist to the Sea Bond dental adhesive commercial.  Buckle your seatbelts 15 seconds in for the seductive geriatric tooth lick!

So I’m watching E! News Daily and there’s some style segment where they tell you how to get designer looks for less.  They show Vanessa Hudgens and Lauren Conrad in “high rise jeans/pants” and call them “chic” and “boho” (gag) but put them on the recently more curvy Jessica Simpson and they’re “Mom Jeans.”  WTF!?!  The double standard in this society is disgusting and they wonder why girls have body image issues.  They might as well have said “if you’re thin you have the right to wear what’s in style and if you’re over a size two, stick to a tarp because nothing will look good on you and we’ll make sure we tell you how bad you look.”  The media can truly suck it.