finally

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you guys might remember when i told you about my contact lenses rebate debacle but i will cliff notes it for you here:

1. needed contacts (march 2011)
2. found a website offering an $80 rebate with 18 months purchased
3. bought 18 months even though i didn't need that much just for the rebate
4. rebate place loses paperwork
5. fought for rebate despite loss
6. get rebate card mailed to me
7. never receive card
8. call company to check on it
9. "yes, we mailed it and you used it all but $1.32"
10. realize my mail had been getting stolen (not just the $80 but other things too)
11. dispute charges
12. months pass
13. check online yesterday
14. money is back on the card (january 2012)
15. hooray!

the moral of the story, hold onto all your paperwork, fight back and be persistent. companies bank on the idea that people won't notice, won't remember or will give up. so don't do any of those things. be diligent. even if it takes NINE months to get an eight week rebate.

so now i have $80.00 i thought i would never ever see again burning a hole in my pocket. i'm going to go buy a box spring with it, but i better do it fast before i buy something leopard for my closet.

i just love leopard that much!
xoxo ashleycolean

bed buying

i had to go buy a bed after i sold my million year old one on craigslist for $40.00. after the move i headed out to find a bed. i'm embarrassed to report, i was so over it when i started that i pretty much just walked into the first place i stopped, asked to see their cheaper 'soft' beds, and 10 minutes and $539 later walked out with a mattress.

i should have shopped around, but you know how some purchases are so daunting and at the end of a long week (or month) that you just don't have it in ya. that's what happened here. my plan was to put the mattress on a platform bed so i didn't need a box spring, but that plan has changed.

my mom shed some light. "get a bed you can use for a LONG time, as a guest bed one day." and she was right, the whole cute platform idea is really not me. super trendy and modern. i'm more of a shabby chic, antiquey, mix and match girl myself when it comes to decorating. so i found an iron bed at pottery barn which i will have for-ev-er and it's on sale for $599.

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after a 10% off coupon and a $75 gift certificate (c/o bbe), i should be in pretty good shape. also, at pottery barn, if you go into the store to order large items they will waive the $150 overweight shipping charge! deal.

making adult purchases, like co-pays at the doctor, are the bane of my existence, but i am really excited to have everything in my new place all set up.

here's to sweet dreams.
xoxo ashleycolean

things wendi taught me

i have, quite possibly, the best boss in the history of bosses. i can't even take time going in to all the ways she is so completely fantastic.

today, on several occasions, something came up that reminded me of something i learned from wendi. i had just the thing to say, or advice to give because of some little tidbit she's provided over the past couple of years. so, i decided that i would post little things that she 'let's me in on.' most of them are common sense, but, i didn't know them, so you might not either.

today's thing wendi taught me: no boots after easter.

i had no clue. apparently it's southern...and because she is from nola, homegirl is in the know.
man o man...first no white pants labor to memorial day and now no boots after easter?!?

what's a girl to do.
xoxo ashleycolean