Second Hand

Oh boy, oh boy, last week I was busy with cleaning and setting up my new old chair that it really slip my mind to write for my blog. Last week, I went surfing on marktplaats, like a dutch craiglist and looked for a second hand Poang from Ikea. So when I saw someone put 17,50 for the chair and the foot thingy, I just wore my naughty shoes and ask if 10,00 is okay too. Within a few hours she replied but I fell asleep and replied in the morning, to pick it up in the evening.

I wasn't there yet, I still needed to clean every bit and bought a new cushion set from Ikea. The cushion that I got is from a really nice leather but the colour and the shine lost all it's natural glow. I searched the whole Saturday evening for a solution to get the nice colour back in to it. In the end I bought for less then a €1,- a bucket soap that restore the tenderness in the leather.

In the process I also found out I lost not a screw but a bout, so after contacting Ikea they promised me to send the missing piece. I really like Ikea services, my home doesn't have a lot of stuff from Ikea and I am not a fan. But I find it very comfortable that such company won't ask me to buy a new product just because of a missing piece. Just throwing a good chair away just because of a missing piece that is just wrong. Of course there a companies that will do it like that just to raise revenue but in my opinion that is just wrong.

I also got the drift and I am also selling my old stuff away, I hope to get some buckets in for a nice diner.