This is exactly how hubby and I felt after we purchased this large garden structure from Lowe's hardware store. I had planted a climbing rose last fall and had nothing for it to climb on when this summer came!
This was the only arbor remaining in their cold and dreary outdoor garden section and had been marked down for clearance to $60. It was made of cedar and completely put together and originally $200! Putting it together would have taken me all day! Now all I needed to do was bring it into our basement to dry out then take it out in the spring and do a little sanding and some sealing as it already had a nice gray patina.
We drove home and got our little pull-behind wagon to load our find.
Immediately after it was loaded Hubby shouted "Start the car! Start the car!"
You did get a steal! Hope the you made your getaway without incident.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Looks like the same one we installed into concrete in our backyard about 5 years ago... the one that's leaning and now has to be moved if we want to save the evergreen jasmine on it!
ReplyDelete"Start the car" LMAO!!! But you guys did get a great deal. That is a real beauty!
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SueAnn
This is too funny!
ReplyDeletethat brought a smile to my can't stop coughing self...:)
ReplyDeleteThat's just too funny. Congrats! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I was just beginning to block that commercial out of my mind...
ReplyDeleteI'd never seen that before. That was great! LOL!
ReplyDeleteNow to me all the fun would have been putting that together!
ReplyDeleteI love a bargain - made me think of Spring - and you put a smile on my face this early morning.
ReplyDeleteThat's the kind of song that will be suck in my head now. Great buy and funny commercial.
ReplyDeleteI was here earlier but the google/blogger sign in not only asked for my mobile phone number but asked for my birthday!
This time it still asked for my birthday but not the mobile phone number. Of course, I lied.
Why?
ReplyDeleteA deal s a deal.
Or am I being particularly humourless here? Everybody else seems to get it.
Tabor, do you want to get on to the Fridge Soup site? If so, I need your email address. Mine is on my profile.
Simply wonderful. Start the car indeed.
ReplyDeleteNow....why do you hate Windows 7?
Glad you were able to make a quick get-away with your steal. Tee Hee !!
ReplyDeleteI hope you burned rubber out of there. A little fish-tailing going around a corner would have been nice, too.
ReplyDeleteI want one! Love it! Great bargain and great get away.
ReplyDeleteGood job :)
I haven't seen that ad before. Funny :)
You got a really good deal on that!!
ReplyDeleteThat was funny! My 14 year old heard it and heard me laughing. Had to play it over for her. :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you got a good deal!!!
@Friko, because a deal that good feels like you must be committing theft. Any moment the store clerk will realize, "Hey, that arch wasn't marked correctly, that's the price of a big bag of wood chips, COME BACK HERE!"
ReplyDeleteAnd even though you darned well know that isn't going to happen, and it was marked correctly, you can't escape the feeling that if the store realizes they've marked something down by basically 70%? They'll be hot on your tail.
Get it?
Hey Tabor, GREAT FIND. Woo hoo, those are always, always fun. When you find something that perfectly fits your needs, and fits your budget? It does feel a bit like you are fortune's favorite, doesn't it?
Do you know, we don't have Ikea in Colorado. I miss Ikea. Come to me, Ikea! Be my friend Ikea!
*waits*
Yeah, that never works, don't know why.
Well done. My hubby doesnt like things growing up walls and I so want something like this for my mature white wisteria.
ReplyDeleteyeah, start the car! lol! :)
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