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Post by jumperhop on Nov 9, 2017 0:05:02 GMT
I am hosting Thanksgiving for 29 people the year (15 kids)
I ordered some Pottery Barn couches that I have had my eye. Today I got an e-mail wanting me to schedule a delivery day. I can either have them delivered before or after Thanksgiving.
Part of me wants them delivered before Thanksgiving so my living room will complete. But the other part of me is scared half to death that my brand new, oatmeal color couches will be ruined by the company coming over.
Would you play it safe or take the risk?
Jen
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 0:07:11 GMT
I'd play it safe. But that is me.
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Post by katybee on Nov 9, 2017 0:07:48 GMT
I think that might be a "First World" dilemma.  |
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Post by psiluvu on Nov 9, 2017 0:09:00 GMT
First world and I would wait on the delivery.
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 9, 2017 0:13:10 GMT
We had two nieces and a nephew stay with us for a week while their parents wen on a cruise. I asked that they not eat in the living room with the new furniture. Guess where they ate? I was at work and they were home by themselves, so they were old enough to follow directions. My furniture had stains that I could see for years after that visit. Just not worth it. Plus you don't want to spend your day worrying about anyone spilling something on them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 0:13:21 GMT
It wouldn't matter to me if it was just a few kids or 15 kids; that many people would have me picking a delivery date after Thanksgiving. Or buying plastic covers.
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Post by jumperhop on Nov 9, 2017 0:13:48 GMT
I think that might be a "First World" dilemma. That's what I get for Peaing while my son is going through my purse next to me. Jen |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 0:14:01 GMT
No brainer. Definitely wait on delivery so you can enjoy your Thanksgiving and not worry about potential damage.
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Post by tanya2 on Nov 9, 2017 0:19:28 GMT
wait!!
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Post by LilyRose on Nov 9, 2017 0:42:25 GMT
Another vote for wait! (Because it would be a worse first world problem to report that your brand new Pottery Barn couch had a stain).
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Post by georgiapea on Nov 9, 2017 1:12:49 GMT
Delay delivery.
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Post by Peal on Nov 9, 2017 1:16:57 GMT
Cancel Thanksgiving and enjoy the new couches as soon as possible!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 9, 2017 1:19:27 GMT
No way I would get them before. DH won’t even let me clean our carpets before we have a big event because he just KNOWS some kid is going to spill something on them (and sadly he’s usually right).
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Post by alexa11 on Nov 9, 2017 1:27:33 GMT
Definitely wait!!! Don't care how old the kids are- even if it was all adults...
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Post by conchita on Nov 9, 2017 1:56:40 GMT
Imagine someone spilling cranberry sauce on them. If that image makes you want to cry and/or murder someone then you should absolutely wait to have those couches delivered.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 1:58:54 GMT
Definitely first world dilemma but I would take delivery AFTER Thanksgiving.  |
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Post by valincal on Nov 9, 2017 2:04:28 GMT
Wait!! You don't want to worry about your new couch all day long...especially when you might be too busy to keep an eye on it! 😄
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Post by jumperhop on Nov 9, 2017 2:15:54 GMT
Imagine someone spilling cranberry sauce on them. If that image makes you want to cry and/or murder someone then you should absolutely wait to have those couches delivered. I️ think I️ am leans towards murder! Jen |
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Post by casii on Nov 9, 2017 2:18:50 GMT
Oh heavens,wait! I remember getting new sofas right before Thanksgiving and telling folks they were off limits to eating. What does my own mother do? Spill pie all over them, immediately staining them. And then she smeared it all around in an attempt to clean it. She thought I only meant no children eating on the sofas. Argh!
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Nov 9, 2017 2:25:37 GMT
Learn from my great-aunt and delay delivery. She and my grandma always had this rivalry going. Aunt Avis just had to get her new couches delivered before Christmas to make sure Grandma Ardis would see them and it would send her in a tailspin to redecorate her living room. Aunt Avis’s couches were off white. M&Ms are not off white and they will melt in a sticky toddler’s hands and do a number on an off white couch. No one saw it happen because most people were downstairs in the rec room and away from those white couches, but we all heard the gasp when the chocolate and candy shell fingerprints were discovered. Save yourself that pain. For the record, Grandma got floral patterned couches and a mauve wing chair recliner shortly before the following summer.
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Post by jackietex on Nov 9, 2017 2:58:07 GMT
I would play it safe.
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Post by JoP on Nov 9, 2017 6:53:37 GMT
I would wait  |
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Post by refugeepea on Nov 9, 2017 7:01:57 GMT
Definitely wait. Who know what they will do? Spray Lysol on them or something.  Probably not a big deal if they aren't leather. |
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Post by anniebygaslight on Nov 9, 2017 7:33:46 GMT
Play it safe.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Nov 9, 2017 11:01:04 GMT
Go all Marie Barone and get clear plastic covers 😉
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Post by littlemama on Nov 9, 2017 11:29:24 GMT
Oatmeal colored and 30-ish people? Wait!
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Post by dawnnikol on Nov 9, 2017 12:07:18 GMT
Our cream colored couch has had more spills on it than I can count, between my own small children and adults, I'd hold off on delivery with that many visitors.  |
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Post by needtime2scrap on Nov 9, 2017 14:03:19 GMT
Wait! Coming from a girl that had her fil drop salsa on her taupe colored couch! Needless to say we have leather now.
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Post by smcast on Nov 9, 2017 15:08:45 GMT
This thread is stressful, just reading through the responses. Now I don't feel so bad about cringing every time I have family over for an event. My nephews act like animals on my furniture and I have to tell them to sit, not do gymnastics on them. No wonder things don't last in their house and look terrible.
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Post by jumperhop on Nov 9, 2017 16:00:50 GMT
Definitely wait. Who know what they will do? Spray Lysol on them or something. Probably not a big deal if they aren't leather. Oh my GOSH Lysol Boy!! Lol, he is 25 and a Grad student! Great memories! jen |
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Probably not a big deal if they aren't leather. 
