Recent as a daisy! Are you able to even deal with how lovable these daisy sheets are? So pleasant for spring —and a match made in heaven on my new-to-me mattress!
After 4 weeks leaning in opposition to our hearth in the lounge, the Ethan Allen Quincy mattress we discovered on Fb Market lastly made it up the staircase to our room this weekend (due to some helpers we employed to carry it up for us).
I couldn’t like it extra! Once I would get cute new sneakers as a child I’d preserve them by my mattress so I might see them as I drifted off to sleep. Did you do this, too? Now I get drift off to sleep in a cute new mattress and curled up in my daisy sheets!
Though we now should make a number of surprising updates like new bedside tables and lamps, repainting partitions and possibly another refreshes to make this all work, you may think about how pleased this complete flip of occasions makes me :).
Some individuals seek for months or years for particular items they need, however I discovered my dream mattress instantly on my first seek for it. I wasn’t even planning to purchase a mattress proper now, nevertheless it was meant to be. Serendipity. I would like to begin looking out extra typically!
You possibly can learn my first submit about discovering the mattress right here.
Minutes earlier than I assumed to search for the mattress on FBMP, I used to be exhibiting my husband this precise mattress on Ethan Allen. Loopy, sure? I used to be making a dream temper board for our dwelling and wished to incorporate this mattress as part of my total type “imaginative and prescient.” So I had solely proven it to him to ask if he favored it (he did) and which coloration he thought I ought to select (we each agreed the robin’s egg blue felt proper).
All of the sudden at that very second I assumed to myself, you need to seek for it on FBMP. I knew it was a protracted shot, however WHAT IF? Dream large! So I typed in Quincy Mattress Ethan Allen and BAM! there it was! My robin’s egg blue Quincy mattress. I had wished this mattress for years, so I might hardly imagine my eyes!
Nonetheless, despite the fact that we obtained the message again that we might come get it, I knew it wasn’t going to be straightforward. This mattress was in Canada (we’re on the opposite facet of the border within the US) and we don’t personal a truck.
And that was solely the start of the challenges!
Lots of you requested to learn the remainder of the story and the mishaps we confronted, so I’ll share extra that I didn’t share in the unique submit.
So right here is the remainder of the story — for you, my curious associates. 🙂
For some cause we all the time neglect to activate the “roaming” characteristic on our cellphone once we go to Canada.
So I’ll say that our first problem would’ve been averted had we merely remembered to try this :).
Our automotive is sufficiently old to not have any in-built navigation options, however we have been in a rented Uhaul that didn’t have one both.
As quickly as we crossed into Canada, the map characteristic on our cellphone stopped working so we have been immediately …. misplaced. One way or the other after operating round an outside shopping center we managed to discover a financial institution machine that was imagined to be open for twenty-four hours — nevertheless it was closed.
That meant we couldn’t get the Canadian money we would wish to purchase the mattress.
To not be discouraged, we headed towards the the vendor’s dwelling (thankfully I had saved step-by-step instructions so it was nearly just like the outdated days with out a cellphone or computerized navigation hahah), however we needed to go with out the money to purchase the mattress.
The vendor didn’t converse a lot English so we have been speaking together with her grown daughter over the cellphone. I had defined on our method to their dwelling that the financial institution machines have been closed. We started looking for a distinct method to get her the cash, which ended up being tougher than we anticipated.
She initially mentioned she didn’t need to use PayPal which might’ve been the only method to do that from the start, however ultimately she agreed to arrange her account so we might pay for it that method.
However after trying on the mattress, we found a brand new drawback. We couldn’t get the mattress aside with the instruments we introduced! I used to be actually beginning to fear that we’d should go dwelling with out it. My husband mentioned a minimum of I hadn’t paid for it but, however I didn’t need to come up to now solely to go dwelling with out it!
So then we needed to go away the mattress and their dwelling to go to Dwelling Depot to search out the suitable new instruments. I’m shocked she trusted us to return. Fortunately she didn’t simply promote it to another person whereas we have been gone!
We discovered the suitable instruments and eventually obtained the mattress aside. Now it was time to get the mattress downstairs. The headboard was so heavy that the proprietor kindly provided to assist us. She was in all probability apprehensive we’d drop it down her staircase or crash right into a wall, which truthfully apprehensive us a bit, too ha.
She was a small woman however she stood on one facet and I used to be on the opposite and my husband on the far finish! We’re clearly not as younger or buff as we was, however we someway managed to get it down the staircase and into the rented truck.
Lastly the daughter’s PayPal account was out there so I might switch the cash and we might go dwelling with the mattress within the truck. PHEW! Perseverance.
By this level we had been in Canada for about 4 hours longer than we had deliberate. After a fast cease at Chipotle we made our method to the border and reward be, crossed over with out incident. They did ask why we have been within the nation, what we purchased and why, and so they seemed behind the truck to make sure we weren’t smuggling something unlawful in.
I can’t think about I’d ever once more go to this a lot effort for a Fb Market discover, however all in all, our Quincy mattress was value it. In fact, if I discovered one other nice deal on one thing I liked this a lot you understand I’d do all of it once more! However the true query is, after studying this story, would anybody in Canada ever promote to me once more? Who is aware of.
My Quincy mattress is such a charmer, I’m so excited to have a chunk I like a lot!
And if you happen to’re in search of some lovable, gentle, natural cotton sheets, these sheets from Garnet Hill are fantastic! I’m obsessive about their quilts too. Sources are beneath!
Have you ever ever found a dream Fb Market discover? I’d love to listen to within the feedback!
Blue Chunky Waffle Weave Throw Blanket (Natural cotton and extra coloration choices!)
Ruffle Blue Ticking Stripe Pillow
Buffalo Examine Curtains (chambray coloration, extra coloration choices)
Wall coloration: Bunny Grey Benjamin Moore
