I have an inexpensive cross which hangs on a cord. The cord is old and dirty, and I want to replace the cord with something similar. It’s blue and rope-like, like a thick string. I cannot find a replacement anywhere. Jewelery stores have nothing even vaguely similar. Craft stores have beading string, which is much thinner than what I want, and leather thongs, which are about the right thickness, but would probably be more expensive than the cross itself. I cannot believe that I’m having such a hard time finding a stupid cord. I’m going to try a sporting goods store, to see if I can find a lanyard (for a whistle or stopwatch or something) that might work.
I also have a hell of a time finding birthday and Christmas cards for my sister. I can find appropriate cards for my mom, dad, and brother without any trouble, but cards for “sister” are, almost without exception, made assuming that the sender is a woman. If it doesn’t say something like, “I’m so glad we’re sisters,” then the drawing will inevitably show two women. It’s not that they don’t make cards for men. There are tons of cards for guys to send to their parents, and it’s not hard to find cards for bothers, but the greeting card makers seem to think that it’s inconceivable that I’d want to wish my sister well. I always end up getting her a generic “For Anyone” card.
What items do you guys have trouble locating? What items are there that, to your mind at least, should be easy to find, but in reality are about as easy as trying to find proof of Bigfoot?
Me, I’m in the process of looking for new furniture, and I’d like a coffee table that’s on the small side, since it’s a small space in a studio apartment. I can’t seem to find a one in a simple design of either oak and glass or iron and glass (to fit Mission style furniture) that isn’t more than 48" long and/or more than 28" wide. There must be other folks like me with space issues, but nearly everything I see assumes a living room that’s almost as big as my whole apartment.
Seems the cables you need to connect your picture-taking cell phone to a computer are non-existant. They’re made, somewhere, but they’re never stocked at the store that you actually buy the phone at.
I was told that I need to go online to get one. What? You sell the damn phones right here in this 3,000 sq ft store, you’ve got no room for a fist-full of cables?
I think I know why. They’d prefer you pay to email the pics to your self, that, and for some reason, the cable I was looking for was like $50!! Hah!? Make the cable price prohibitive to basically force people to pay extra to use their service to email any photos to yourself. Gottcha.
I tried to find thick curtains for short windows for the bedroom. Only see through stuff was available the three years I looked untill giving up. The ones in the room are now 10 years older, and I guess when they fall apart, I’ll nail lumber over them.
Instead of a craft store, go to a fabric store and head for the upholstery department first. There you will find a wide variety of cordings in the trim area, similar to the ones in Tiger Lily’s link. If you don’t find what you need there, so over to the ribbon and trim department. Or take the necklace with you, hand it to a clerk and let her find it for you. Satin cording is sold by the yard and sometimes in packages over by the seam binding and thread. Good luck.
A friend was telling me the other day about her struggle to find a replacement towel bar for the one that was hanging in her shower. Seems the holes on the broken one are aligned vertically, and she can only find towel bars with horizontal holes (or vice versa…can’t remember which she needs). She has checked every possible retail outlet around, and they are all the same. Now she’s going to have to drill new holes in Corian to put up a new towel bar. And what’s worse is that none of the staff at any store has been in the least bit helpful, informative or even sympathetic.
I’m assuming this cross is a crucifix? Yeah, the idea of going out to buy something like that is weird to me. That’s the kind of thing your grandmother gives you. You put it on your rear-view mirror, or the wall above your headboard, and that’s that. (Anyway, it’s a crucifix, perhaps a rosary: you need a chain, not a cord.)
This can’t be true. Walk into any Rite Aid and you’ll be bombarded with cards not only for your sister, but for your first second cousin, and the sanitary worker. You must live in some real suburb, so suburban that the local Rite Aid would deprive you of a card for your sister.
I used to have one of these. It vanished in the last move, and I want to replace it. They no longer exist, anywhere. All the store clerks know exactly what I mean, agree that they are wonderful, and haven’t seen them in years.
I used to have a calculator that added time. It was a Casio, and one of their least expensive models - it cost $8. Somebody in the baggage handling department at an airpport decided that I didn’t need it anymore, and took it out of my suitcase. I have never been able to find another one, anywhere in a store or on the net. They can’t just have made the one! I saw another like it when I bought it! (I know there are websites that have time calculators, but that isn’t what I need.)
The closest I came while searching for it was when a person at Texas Instruments e-mailed me a subroutine I could program into one of their $400 graphing calculators that would replicate the function. Oh, sure, I’ll get two of those.
My daughters and I also love sarsaparilla. I can only find it at one specific convenience store in a a small town 40 miles north of us. It remains a special treat kinda item.
It’s a beautiful cherry table, Kalhoun. The only trouble - and I’m running into this a lot - is that when I do come across something that could be right, size-wise, the finish isn’t close to the furniture I already have (Mission oak, aka red oak / warm oak / cinnamon oak finish). I’ve almost given up hope of a wood table because of it.
The reason I was angling for some glass too is that I have a lovely and very colorful Persian rug in front of the sofa, and I was hoping not too cover it up too much with the coffee table. Iron and glass tables have been fairly easy to find, at least online, but size is ever an issue.
I’ve seen Punkyova’s gadget recently at a Bed, Bath & Beyond, or maybe a Linens ‘n’ Things. That won’t help if you don’t live in the U.S., though. Diceman, would something on this page work for you?