Internet and wifi and TV at home... it's like paradise!
Our nest building is almost complete, but after quite a lot of strife. We have had the worst luck possible in terms of defective goods and things breaking on us, all of which required driving half an hour each way to the stores we went to in order to return things. I think this is the full list of things that broke on us:
1) Keith's Samsung Galaxy S3. This is supposed to be one of the nicest phones out there right? The girl selling it to us even made note when trying to get us to buy extra insurance that without the discount when you join a mobile provider, the cost of buying this phone outright was a lot more than the iPhone and without insurance could be quite onerous. Well, that did NOT stop it from being a piece of crap. Keith rapidly discovered that every application and function on the phone would crash and provide error messages.
2) The biggest nightmare: our Ikea sofabed. It got delivered in 3 full-size 6-ft tall boxes (i.e. too big to get into my little Honda Civic). After a day of building, we got to step 21 of 32 and found that the arm refused to attach itself to the seat and the back, only one or the other. we forced it the first go, leaving it not fully aligned and wobbly. So we had to drive all the way back to Ikea to exchange the arm, thinking that was the problem. Came home with a brand new arm which STILL did not attach to the seat and back simultaneously - the pin holes simply did not align. We have currently left it with the pins connecting the arm to the back left completely out. We await its imminent collapse.
3) Pleather bench - cushion had a rip in it
4) 46" TV - only 6 screws to fit stand to flat screen. And yet, one of them refuses to affix itself. returned, same day, after some tantrums.
5) Floor lamp with side reading light. Bought two. one of the reading lamps, no worky.
We still need to buy a dining table... but I bet whichever one we choose only comes with 3 legs.
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