Pull the other one, it's got bells...

[alfreda89]

So I get a small catalog from Crate&Barrel, not the wide and tall ones they normally send. It's called Everyday Best Buys. With an elegant green and white patterned sheet set on a nice contemporary wood bed.

Inside, the prices say "Best Buy $xx.xx" in red ink, against white background, black type and cool pictures echoing the cover -- even the gray toned items have a hint of green in them.

Never mind that no one in their right mind would pay these prices for things, unless they either won the lotto or are buying for very good friends.

Crate&Barrel -- I used to go there to buy cool things at great prices. Like an upscale Pier 1. Now I go to window shop.

It still has entertainment value, while stirring dinner...

Comments

[incandragon.livejournal.com]

I've been surpried, though ... what I've decided I really, really want (not by looking at any catalog) ... Crate & Barrel has usually had the same, or lower, price than Linens N Things or BB&B. Or they've had what I've wanted, when no one else has had it. W&S is only winning for extremely difficult to find chef's pieces. The only store that that C&B loses against, consistently, is World Market.

But linens? Yowch. Target and Ikea are cheap ... everywhere else is just nuts!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Yes, W and I found a small kitchen item for Oliana0's graduation that only C&B seemed to have. So I knew about that -- but didn't know you'd found better prices than L&T or BB&B. I'll try to remember that.

Land's End so far has the highest quality linens I've found. Not the towels, necessarily, but the sheets. I still like the patterns, and they're still holding up, years later.

[noiseinmyhead.livejournal.com]

I like the sheets I find at tuesday morning but waiting until they are on clearence even there is annoying, All the kids sheets ahve ceom from Ross, Tommy Hilfinger acctually had some nice bright colored sets out that apparently didn't sell at the department stores so we got em :)


L&T and BB&B take each others coupons and those bring the prices down to normal.....sometimes they have even let me use expired ones.....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

L&T and BB&B take each others coupons and those bring the prices down to normal.....sometimes they have even let me use expired ones.....

Yes, I do that, too. It helps a lot -- and sometimes CC do a deal with them that really drops the price on one item. Got my Kitchen Aid that way.