I have found the most perfect bedspread ever and I can't get it...Sigh

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was at the mall with my mother over the weekend to return 2 Xmas presents. She needed to pick up some draperies so I tagged along with her and it was then that I saw it. The most perfect…most beautiful…most wonderful bedspread ever.

It is like the designer stepped into our house and picked out all the colors from our main level and created this bedspread specifically for me. It matches the pretty shade of sage green we have in our master bedroom. It matches the deep shade of burgundy that is carried throughout the great room and dinning room. It matches the picture hanging above our bed that I just can’t seem to find anything to go with perfectly.

I decided that I must have this bedspread. I had to find a way to convince my beloved Sauron, who I have promised that I won’t charge anything else and pay off my credit card THIS year, that this bedspread is perfect and I must have it.

I decided to bring it up to him last night on our way to dinner. My parents were keeping the kids for us so we planned a nice dinner at our favorite Japanese restaurant for just the two of us…near the very mall where my beautiful bedspread resides.

“Honey” I said sweetly, “You won’t believe what I found at the mall over the weekend.” I get The Look and then a tentative, “What?”

I go on to describe to him the perfectness of this bedspread and how much it would add to our home. I praise the color scheme. I tell him about how soft the fabric is. I explain to him how it would bring all my hard work in designing our home to a close because of it’s sheer perfection.

He doesn’t seem so impressed. I continue and tell him how not only is it the perfect bedspread but it just so happens that it is on SALE right now. (How lucky can I possibly be???)

He sighs and asks me, “So how much is this piece of perfection on sale for?”

“You don’t want to know” I tell him. “Just say I can go buy it with no questions asked.”

“Okay…let’s try this a different way, dear” he says. “Let’s say I had a printing press and I was printing out Ben Franklins…how many would I need to buy this most perfect bedspread?”

It’s now or never. If I lie about how much it is then I’ll have to feel the guilt. I take a deep breath and forge ahead.

“Kadflkajsd” I mubble.

“I’m sorry hun, how much did you say?”

“Are we talking just the most perfect bedspread or are we talking the pillows, sheets, shams, etc. that would go along with it” I ask.

I get another one of The Looks. “The spread, dear…how many would I need for the spread?” Is his grinding his teeth now?

“You would need four Ben Franklins” I answer.

He is silent for a minute. Have I convinced him? Is my most perfect bedspread now going to be a reality?

We go to the restaurant. We order our drinks. We order our food. We get our soup. We get our salad.

“Did you say FOUR Ben Franklins” he asks me. I nod.

“Didn’t we just get a new bedspread a few months ago?” I nod.

“I’m thinking no on this most perfect bedspread…sorry dear, but we need to pay off that credit card so we can finish the basement and buy a new car and all the other things we want to do this year.”

I have now decided he doesn’t really love me. For if he did he would understand that a most perfect bedspread like this only comes around once in a lifetime. AND to find it on SALE never ever happens.

sigh

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  1. You’re right, he’s wrong. How can you pass up the World’s Most Perfect Bedspread???

OK now that that’s out of the way…

  1. Why oh why did you go looking for it??? Now you will never ever be satisfied with the bedspread you have!! You know better than this! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” But only slightly less well known is this: “Never go window shopping when on a budget or to Baskin-Robbins when on a diet!” [sub](Apologies to S. Morgenstern.)[/sub]

Next time, check into lay-away… or just go to the Pepperell Mill Outlet store and see if you can find it there. :smiley: It’s worth the drive - I got a king-size Ralph Lauren comforter for $45. And there was nothing wrong with it!

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C’mon, it’s not like he denied you SHOES!

whimper

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IMHO Kylie Minogue is the most perfect bed spread, and I can’t get her either.

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ACCKKKK!! I just found it on ebay for $200. Wonder what’s wrong with it? The picture looks okay.

I really need to stop doing this to myself.

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Probably nothing wrong with it. I got my $5000 wedding dress, never worn, perfect condition, in the original packaging for $100 on ebay… sometimes you just find great deals on there.

That said, the perfect bedspread is something elusive that one may never find in a lifetime. Your beloved should just give in and allow you to get this never-to-be-found-again treasure.

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Aries28, I feel your pain. I saw the MPB two years ago, and I still remember it perfectly. Sometimes I even fantasize that I’m lying underneath it (well, we all need a bit of variety in our fantasies). Unfortunately I couldn’t afford it because I had already bought what I mistakenly thought was the MPB.

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A few points, my dearest:

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m getting damned tired of carrying this stupid burgundy shade through the great room and dining room. Can’t we find a place to put it already? It’s heavy.

Here’s a thought: Let’s take the picture down. Problem solved! And no money spent!

How is this bedspread different from the one we got last year, which was also the perfect bedspread? You realize we now have more bedspreads than beds.

Because that tactic has always worked so well. Remember when I tried to use it on you to get that Ferrari? I still have the scars, you know.

You left out the part where you asked “Is Franklin on the thousand-dollar bill?” That question right there let me know we were waaaay out of my league, bedspread-wise.

If memory serves, the most perfect bedspread WAS on sale last year, when we got it then. At that time, you said the bedspread purchase of that bedspread proved my undying, everlasting devotion, love, and horniness. I’m unclear what the purchase of this new perfect bedspread will prove that the purchase of the old perfect bedspread did not.

There! Glad we got that settled. Now. What’s for dinner?

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I am in a different sort of pain.

I decided we might be up for a new comforter set. I love the one we have, but we’ve had it since we moved into our condo six years ago. I’m ready for a change.

One delimiting factor: after six years of white walls, I painted the bedroom this summer. So now I’ve limited what will go in the room. And it must be King size. And I don’t want to spend $400 (which as you know, is easy to do, especially with a King).

I have looked high and low. I have looked at outlets. At bed-n-bath stores. At department stores. At discount stores. Online. I have not been able to find something I liked, that was practical, that was King sized, that matches the walls, that wouldn’t cost $500 or more.

It has become a quest on the order of a religious crusade.

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Silly, silly man.

If we take the picture over the bed down what are we going to put in it’s place? And NO…we are not putting wall to wall mirrors in our bedroom and on the ceiling so stop asking me. The answer is still no.

The bedspread we got last year is still very nice and very pretty but it’s not THE most perfect, most beautiful one. And, not to be petty, but my parents bought the one last year as a late birthday gift for me. So nyah.

And I have now decided that our master bathroom paint color isn’t going to match the new most perfect, most wonderful bedspread so I see some painting in your not so distant horizon.

“What’s for dinner?” Well…that depends. Am I getting my bedspread or not? :wink:

Cranky I hope your quest ends soon with your MPB in hand.

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The trapeze could hang there. Or the centerfold from your latest issue of Playgirl.

That’s a whole different room. How does a bedspread affect the paint scheme in a different room?

Peanut butter sandwiches it is, then.

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My most perfect bedspread (quilt, really) is on the way to me as I type. And it was on sale. It goes with the paintings I have on the walls. And it does match the paint in my room.

And I got sheets, too.
But then, I don’t have a sweetie to tell me not to go into debt.

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Wow, I found my MPB on sale about a year ago. I love it. I don’t share it either. stormchaser is not allowed to touch the MPB, he has his own blanket.
Just Monday, I found and hung the most perfect curtains that match the burgandy sheets that match the MPB.

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Put some jelly on that sandwich and you’ve got a meal fit for a dark lord.

I feel your pain. I am also married to a “shopaholic” who always seems to find a new item that works so much better than the recently acquired merchandise that looks just fine to me.

She has begun getting into this painting of rooms where you use sponges and baggies to put on several different shades of paint. It comes out looking like some of the acid trips I took when I was a more tender age. Of course, these new schemes demand new “accents”, rugs, pillows, etc.

I personally blame HGTV. The one good thing is that I’m not qualified to apply paint to walls in this fashion, so I get of the actual work.

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i was very lucky to find a rl comforter on sale, at ross! it is perfect. yellow (not my fav. colour but i need yellow for the heath area.) on one side with a lovely plaid on the other. it is soooooo soft and comfy and warm.

i had to get it because one of the cats hit my bed again. (i suspect winken the wonderful)

onto a new mattress and pillows.

as i see it the mpb is a gift for both people. leading to much happiness for both people.

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Aries28, not that I would want to unfairly plant a dark seed of destructiveness in you, but is there at least an outside chance that a terrible accident will befall your present bedspread so that you will have to buy that most perfect bedspread after all?

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I’m a girl and yet I really don’t get this. Why not just buy a duvet so that the only thing you need to change is the cover? I’m fickle and that’s what I did. I can change it for about $50 whenever I feel like. It’s the perfect solution for a girl with commitment problems vis-a-vis her bed linens.

P.S.–Why does the bedspread have to match the dining room?

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Aries28, I so totally feel your pain. I am currently experiancing the same thing with a pocket pc from my husband.

good luck!!

:slight_smile:

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Wait. Wait. Wait just one cotton-pickin’ second here.

Is this the same husband who wiggled his way out of the agreed-upon spending limit for Christmas presents so recently? The same husband who put Season 5 on that credit card that has to be paid off before you can get your bedspread? THAT husband??

Here’s my suggestion: go ahead and get it. Tell him it’s your Christmas present for Christmas 2004.

I wanna see him wiggle out of THAT one.

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What kind of screwed-up female logic is that? I spent more on Christmas presents for my wife than I was supposed to, so now she gets to compensate for that by buying a THIRD perfect bedspread for the only bed we sleep in?

I could understand the logic if, say, my wife was trying to get something for ME and I was saying “No, we shouldn’t spend the money.” Then it would make sense to say “Go ahead and get it, because he went over the limit on Christmas.”

This must be the same kind of thinking that led my wife to explain how I would actually owe her money if she got this bedspread on e-Bay.

“See, it’s normally $400, but I can get it on e-Bay for $200,” she said. “Then I’d still have $200 to use to get other stuff for the bed, like the matching sheets and stuff.”

“Back up a second,” I said. “Even IF you got this thing on e-Bay, why wouldn’t you just spend the $200 on it and not buy anything else?”

“Because if I saved $200 on the bedspread, you’d owe me the $200. So I might as well use it to complete the sleeping ensemble.”

Not only can’t I win … I don’t even understand the rules.