musical tables

so most people have heard my predicament with my dining table already, but here's the short end of it:

i bought a dining table set this past june from a graduating student and somewhere between moving out last summer to moving into a diff place this summer, i lost the dining table legs. you might say, so what's the big deal? that's what i thought at first too. And then the snowball began to roll...

so first, i tried to hunt them down - retraced my steps. old apt. new apt. storage space. call the movers. no luck.

then i decide, maybe target might have a decent table. borrow a car. drive 30 mins there. no luck.

at this point, you might ask (as others have), why don't you just go to a hardware store, buy some wood and make table legs yourself? this also sounds easier than it is. first, bschool students are bad about taking care of regular life things like this when we are so good at going out to socialize, doing homework and..blogging instead. second, i have no power tools. third, i have a boyfriend who has problems hanging pictures on a wall. fourth, the table legs would still not match the table (don't get me started on learning to varnish and paint wood...)

then i think, i need a few things from ikea, maybe i'll just try and buy the legs separately while i'm there (the table was from ikea). i borrow a car. drive an hour there. they don't sell the table legs separately.

so my boyfriend and i decide to buy another table instead while we're there. but none of the tables match the chairs from our original table leg-less set. so we have to buy another set of chairs to match the new table.

so doing the math - another $200+ later, on top of the costs of the original dining set i had bought last summer, i have: one dining table, 4 chairs, one dining table top, another 4 chairs and limited storage space.

all because of missing table legs! did i mention that our t.v. doesn't work...