All Hail Overstock.com

I've had a lot of fun virtually furnishing my make-believe house that I don't have possession of yet. I've clogged up our tight living quarters with furniture and flatware, and I've placed orders for certain things to arrive at the new house that I thought would take longer to ship. Unfortunately, what I didn't account for was my geographical change within the United States. Huh, you say? Since Texas is smack dab in the middle of the country, 1) alot of places have warehouses here: Target and Horchow for starters, and 2) a lot of distribution is done in the midwest putting us closer to the delivery source. For instance, I ordered 4 chairs from my beloved http://target.com/ on a Monday afternoon. No kidding, they arrived Tuesday afternoon. I was budgeting ship times based on my experiences in back east, very congested metro Virginia.

Perhaps I jumped the gun because it all bit me in the behiney last night. I was checking the status of an order I had placed on http://overstock.com/, when I realized that the extremely cool leopard print rug I'd ordered arrived a day early...and was marked as deliverd to doorstep. Crud. As you can imagine, the rug was nowhere to be found when I got there this a.m. After calling the construction manager, sales guy, and my dad (to plan a return for reward strategy), I decided to live chat with Overstock. They gave me NO GRIEF at all and offered to replace rug if it wasn't to be found by UPS. I was so impressed, I had to tell all of you about it. And by all, I mean my 6 faithful readers! I've included some pix of a

couple of things I've ordered...