Feeling restless & unwise spending
Originally posted on Discuit
I don't know what's currently causing it, but sometimes when I get stressed I get seized with the compulsion to change up my environment. I want a bigger rug for the livingroom. And a TV stand with more storage space and doors. And a pantry cupboard for the kitchen that I want to remodel in ways that probably aren't physically possible. The house isn't that big, there's really not much room to change anything, but I am hunting for opportunities,
So much time scrolling through furniture on etsy (another point, where the hell do you buy half-decent furniture?) and there's this great-looking cupboard that's like £550 and the high-pressure-sales-tactics are working on me so well. "Only 1 left and it's in 2 baskets" in bold red text. But I am *not* the kind of affluent that can drop over £500 on something with a "no returns" policy, even if I do really want it and know exactly where I can put it until the kitchen remodel.
But a suitable TV stand has been sitting in my ikea basket in a tab on my phone for a couple of weeks now, after I finally understood how to correctly ikea*, and that's only £140 so fuck it, we pick it up tomorrow afternoon. We'll see if it works out.
\* I'm probably the only person too stupid to get it, but I was looking at a TV stand thinking "this would work, if only it had full-height doors and wasn't as tall" for the longest time before realising you can just click on "What's Included" and add the bits you want, then from those bits the "Related products" has the different sized components. So I didn't buy the legs and picked full-height doors and got the exact good-enough solution. Theoretically.