STORIES

I have some stories to tell you all--
that I have not gotten around to until now--

First is the latest story of  "irons"--
During the first couple weeks of back in Sept--
when I first arrived back here in NY--
I bought myself a new ironing board and iron-
thinking I would be sewing right off--

and this is the   iron I bought--
I have to have a stainless steel soleplate--
cause when the Teflon ones heat up--they give off a toxic smell that makes me cough--
so I had found this one at Walmart for $14--
welllll--
we all know how sick I got after being here for 2 weeks--
and there was no sewing until now--so that sat on the ironing board--
from Sept to  this past Tuesday--when I finally had fabric that I needed to press for a project--
I opened the box and lifted the iron out--
and -
there was no way I could use this iron--it was too big and too heavy for me--
so back in the box it went and out to the computer I came--
I finally decided on my an old favorite iron I used to have when I lived in NY before
the adventure in Fl--

So I ordered it--at Walmart for $28--yep double what I had paid for the other one--
ouch--
but Joann's wanted $54 for the same iron ---sooooo!!!!
On Friday when this one came in--I returned the other one--
the clerk almost did not give me my money back on the other one--
as it had been over 90 days--but she finally agreed too--
thank you sales lady!!!

When I had this same iron years ago--
I had problems with the handle breaking--
but my brother sorta fixed it for me--but the handle was always in the up position--
and when I moved I got rid of it--
That one I had also paid the $50 for from the local quilt shop--
Today I got to use the new iron and it was like working with an old friend---
and this one is small and light weight and will be easier to get it back to FL either
in my suitcase or shipped!!

Now--another story--
I had ordered 2 wood rocking chairs from a company in CA through Walmart
for my move here--one for me and one for Anne when she came--
and I also ordered us a set of cushions for the chairs and 2 storage box foot stools--
and the rockers where here when I got here--
but--
what a mess--
first I was a mess--right after I got here--
foggy minded and such--
but I unpacked all the pieces--
(OHHH--forgot to tell you--these rockers came unassembled!!!)
and then the real fun began--
we could not get them together--
the pieces didn't match and the screws they sent me didn't seem to want to work--
two different men, sorta, tried to help me--
by this time--I already knew I was going back to FL--
so I decided to return the rockers--
it took weeks of working with Walmart and the CA company to get that done--
in the end they returned my money and said they didn't want me to return the chairs either--
and I really hated to just trash the chair pieces--
so I called a friend who I knew was good with wood and he took them--
thought maybe he could at least get one good chair out of them--
and he even got them both put together--
but said it took all kinds of work and redrilling and different screws--
he did offer them back to me--but I  told him, no, I had finally gotten my money back after 2-3 months of phone calls and emails--and after all the work he did on them he needed to keep them--
which he did--they sit on his front porch!!!

These are just 2 stories of how the things I got for this apartment had not worked out--
it just seemed that everything was broken, wrong size parts, didn't fit--whatever--
Can't tell you the amount of stuff I took back to Walmart or sent back to 3rd party companies!!!
If I had grandkids this would be a good story to tell them-but as I don't have any--I got to tell you!!!

Weather outside is 'frightful' tonight--
more on that tomorrow and hopefully some actual sewing finishes!!!!

Thanks for reading--I can laugh about all this now--but it sure wasn't funny at the time--!!!

TEXT SOME ONE THAT YOU LOVE THEM TODAY--
LUV, DI