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Jan. 22nd, 2005 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kanttiHad my car serviced this week. The good news is that now that the new engine has had its 500 mile service, I can drive it above mph again. So now I can drive to the Poppies on Tuesday at a reasonable pace. Hurrah!
Total bill: £184
I also got my bicycle serviced, which apparently is going to involve replacing large chunks of the brakes and the chain.
Total bill: ~£180
What's wrong with this picture??
It reminds me of when my bike and my car both went in for new tyres at the same time and the bike tyres were £22 each and the car tyres were £19 each. The only reason the bike came in cheaper was because it had two wheels instead of four.
Today's big expenditure, though, was IKEA. I've been hunting for a bathroom cabinet for ages and all I'd seen were expensive, cheap-looking, ones. Expensive I might have been able to tolerate, but not in something that looked so cheap (in the good cases) or ugly (in the bad cases). Ikea had loads of nice cabinets, though. I ended up leaving with the most expensive one (ooh, get me!). Not only was it better quality than any others I'd seen (solid birch, mirrored inside the doors, glass shelves), it was also less money than any I'd seen anywhere else, even in places like B&Q.
I also bought a frame -- which may or may not be the right size -- for an Olivia Bettie Page poster I bought ages ago, two plants and ceramic pots, three little cacti, two watering cans, a little box with drawers for under the bathroom vanity, six tea light holders, and about three hundred candles of various varieties. The only downside was that I didn't end up finding any bookcases deep enough to accommodate my stereo and shallow enough to fit in the alcove beside the fireplace that I actually liked. They had one, and it was nice solid dark-stained pine, and not much money, but the styling was rather fussy. Poo.
Total bill: £104.
So in order of value, I think we can safely rank them as IKEA, car garage, bicycle shop. However, the fact that I'm in a position to compare all three simultaneously suggests that next month's credit card bill is going to be a very bad experience indeed.
Total bill: £184
I also got my bicycle serviced, which apparently is going to involve replacing large chunks of the brakes and the chain.
Total bill: ~£180
What's wrong with this picture??
It reminds me of when my bike and my car both went in for new tyres at the same time and the bike tyres were £22 each and the car tyres were £19 each. The only reason the bike came in cheaper was because it had two wheels instead of four.
Today's big expenditure, though, was IKEA. I've been hunting for a bathroom cabinet for ages and all I'd seen were expensive, cheap-looking, ones. Expensive I might have been able to tolerate, but not in something that looked so cheap (in the good cases) or ugly (in the bad cases). Ikea had loads of nice cabinets, though. I ended up leaving with the most expensive one (ooh, get me!). Not only was it better quality than any others I'd seen (solid birch, mirrored inside the doors, glass shelves), it was also less money than any I'd seen anywhere else, even in places like B&Q.
I also bought a frame -- which may or may not be the right size -- for an Olivia Bettie Page poster I bought ages ago, two plants and ceramic pots, three little cacti, two watering cans, a little box with drawers for under the bathroom vanity, six tea light holders, and about three hundred candles of various varieties. The only downside was that I didn't end up finding any bookcases deep enough to accommodate my stereo and shallow enough to fit in the alcove beside the fireplace that I actually liked. They had one, and it was nice solid dark-stained pine, and not much money, but the styling was rather fussy. Poo.
Total bill: £104.
So in order of value, I think we can safely rank them as IKEA, car garage, bicycle shop. However, the fact that I'm in a position to compare all three simultaneously suggests that next month's credit card bill is going to be a very bad experience indeed.
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Date: 2005-01-22 03:22 pm (UTC)