I see that Habitat has closed its two stores in Ireland, due to serious downturn in business.
Laydeez are calling the radio wondering where their EU3,700 sofas are.
Oh dear.
Apparently, the credit card companies can't give them their money back.
YES I SAID THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY.
What in Jays' name are they doing putting a EU3,700 sofa on a credit card?
Yes, I know I put a house deposit on a credit card one time, but it was only for one day because it was a Sunday and at ten am on Monday I got the money out of the bank.
I'm sure they'll get their sofas at some point. They were never going to be delivered on time anyways, Habitat sofas having a habit of being late. And tat.
Geddit?
We should just give the laydeez their money back, put the sofas in the National Museum and label them the day the tiger died.
Thanks to everyone whose conspicuous consumption made the last thirteen years so much fun that I had to rip my life up and move to a different continent to get away from it.
Maybe we can all grow up and get some brains now.
Maybe, shock horror, people will be able to recycle furniture, cars, clothes, etc. without being made to feel like they're some kind of pre-famine troll.
Maybe it's for the best.
Let's just hope that everyone has a nice soft washable cream velour landing.
3 comments:
You'd wonder is it the downturn, or IKEA opening in Belfast? Habitat was a nice place to buy plates, but a very overpriced place to buy furniture, complete with 14 week waiting times, which hardly encourages the impulse buyers.
Still, I imagine the drought of people moving into new apartments might have had something to do with it alright...
Our neighbours, who work all day and night at their two crappy jobs, hired a skip for over a week to dump the contents of their shed into, and almost everything they put in it could have been given away on freecycle, brought back to the shop when buying a new one (like their old lawnmower), or brought to the recycling centre in Drogheda, which would have cost them the princely sum of €5 instead of whatever they paid for the skip.
I wonder whether Irish people will ever get back into the habit of recycling stuff. Even with free kerbside pick-up of pretty much anything apart from tyres and paint cans here in Halifax, people recycle. So cost is not an issue here. If you do end up putting something out on the kerb, you do it a couple of nights in advance to give people a chance to take it if they want, and it usually goes to a new home. I just got a beautiful chest of drawers for Kitty's room from a colleague who wanted rid of it. For FREE. Saved me about $200.
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