Seeing Before Buying
With most of my purchases, I always like to look at the product before I buy it. I know if I bought it on-line, I could often return it, but there is all that repacking hassle with a dodgy hand. I’d far rather get it right first time.
This explained my trip on a bus to IKEA this morning.
I should say that what I needed; a spice rack, was also available from a well-known celebrity chef. His product looked better than IKEA, but was of course more money, so in the end IKEA got the business because I could see and touch the product.
I could have used one of the said chef’s consultants, but who needs a consultant to buy a spice rack and anyway I always like dealing with the organ grinder, rather than the monkey.
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] kitchen, I needed a nice wall-mounted spice rack. After briefly flirting with the idea of using a design promoted by a well-known celebrity chef, I decided that the IKEA on in their Grundtal range was ideal. The way it was mounted on a rail, […]
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