OK, so baking soda odour removal thang basically useless. 🙁 Brought handbag back to store and clerk confirmed that odour was very not good. Picked up another one (well it’s 2 bags actually, grey/dk beige faux suede tote, separate grey shoulder bag.) Yeah, at home noticed shoulder bag clasp was a bit awry but pliers fixed it and touched up work w/silver paint, there’s only so far that I will go.
But wait – at another branch of store I’d seen an awesome hot pink reversing to creamy beige tote w/ sep hot pink shoulder bag, just like the ones I bought the other week (black tote reversing to red w/sep black shoulder bag). 50% off but now sold out (I called.) So at this store I merely asked whether each store sets sale prices, or what as they had one left. Clerk checked and I got it at 50% off! The only one left! Anyone else would have paid full price! Tote had a miniscule scratch in faux leather but I’m good at mixing acrylic paint and a mix of like 9 shades got it basically purrfect. Score! Do I need a stunning hot pink (sorta lipstick pink) bag? I guess so! 😉 Lagatta store is ZONE Maison, giving them the thumbs up for customer service!
I will be doing “KJ’s handbag giveaway” with N as always getting right of first refusal and whatever’s left going in charity bin. So I feel a tad virtuous LOL.
Still more – on way to store saw awesome street find – solid wood 2-drawer small unit – purrfect for replacing current shelf for overflow of tights collection. No way that I could lift it. So in the mega-heat went home, picked up shopping cart, went back and as per a helpful guy got the thing onto cart for me. 😉 At home I managed to lift the thing off. Want to line the drawers and tomorrow I can arrange thing to place it purrfectly. It even has thos floor protectors already installed!
Yeah PG the rent thang. At one point someone suggested that I call our tenant’s rights hotline. We can get advice from our Rental Board, but the hotline is not gov’t run and therefore not so bureaucratic. The lady that I spoke with outright said that IHO I’m being majorly &*&^;(^*_!! That I should not point in time negotiate with landlord but should speak with guy who started this tenant’s advocacy way back and is basically the go to purrson. Plan is to meet with him at rental prob clinic Sun am. Will go after spin class . For sure can’t do me any harm. Worse case scenario I would pay increase and be not totally happy. I love my place and moving would be a bad plan, I just can’t take that sort of stress LOL. Plan would also be to send reg lett saying I am staying but refuse increase. Then the Rental Board judge decides and it could be raised higher! Usually lett gets landlord to agree to settle as court case is onerous, but I never know and could have to travel out of city to courthouse which I would not want to do. I get ahead of myself. But as per the KJ way is not to just accept things, so we’ll see. I have until Oct. 19 to do anything.
Besides, Dorry likes this place! 😉