Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Spendthrift Purchase

It turns out this blog is primarily maintained by Sharon. She'd hoped during the remodel that Jeff would also regularly make posts so that is why she switched to writing posts in third person. She reasoned that if different people were writing first person posts, it could become confusing. But, clearly, house blogging is not Jeff's thing. He occasionally writes posts at his recipe or his sustainable living blog, but virtually never here. So, I think I will go ahead and switch the writing back to first person.

More than a decade ago, Jeff and I ran across a china pattern at one of the outlet centers that we loved!! But, due to the substantial price tag, we did not buy any at the time. But I never forgot it. I actually had a search in eBay for years, hoping to come across a bargain. (I never did.)

Well, last month I ran across someone selling the china on craigslist! Though, at the $100 per setting they were asking, it was still pretty spendy. I thought about it for a couple of weeks before I contacted the seller. I ended up buying 8 settings from her.

Then, just a few days later I found someone out-of-state (on craigslist in their state) selling 11-settings plus a bunch of serving pieces for an even better price than the seller here. I rashly wrote them and asked if they would ship. They said they would, and at no extra charge. Then I did something that could have been very stupid, but worked out this time: I sent them a check for the total amount and trusted they would ship the dishes.

As the days passed, I'd thought about what would happen if the dishes didn't arrive, as this person was way too far away to pursue, but luckily, it didn't come to that. The dishes arrived this week, as promised and very well packaged. And now we have plenty of plates and serving dishes and we're all ready to do some entertaining. It must be time to schedule some dinner parties!

Wedgwood Cornucopia china
Wedgwood Cornucopia china
Wedgwood Cornucopia china
It seems very stupid, given our unemployed state, to spend so much money on dishes, but I've been fairly stupid about money lately. The financial crash did not inspire much long-term faith in our economy and "losing" so much money we had saved and invested, despite our frugal behavior, made me a little bit more willing to blow money on luxuries, just because we want them.


4 comments:

  1. Good for you, Sharon! Beautiful design. The adventure of finding such treasures makes them all the more special and fun to have. :)

    Suzanne

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  2. Beautiful china Sharon! I love the pattern. It's great to splurge once in a while... You only live once, right?

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  3. Just as long as you use them often and make the purchase worthwhile! :)

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  4. if you're going to spend, why not spend on things that you LOVE?

    enjoy your new pieces!

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