Ms. Cheap: La Vergne shops have deals on furniture
08.10.11
I don’t ordinarily think of La Vergne as a shopping destination.
But if you are looking to fill a room or an apartment or even a whole house with decent furniture without spending a fortune, you might want to head down Interstate 24 to La Vergne to check out a couple of places I discovered recently.
My first stop was the CORT Clearance Center , which sells office and home furniture that was previously rented through the CORT national furniture rental company.
The center has several interesting “house full of furniture” deals that offer for a fixed price 18 pieces, such as a couch or couches, ottoman and side tables for a living room, dining table and chair set, and a bedroom set with queen bed, mattress and box springs, nightstand and dresser.
It is essentially three rooms of furniture ranging in price from $1,099-$2,499.
You can also buy pieces individually — a sofa for $200, rugs starting at $25 and framed art starting at $19.
One of the best deals is what district manager James Dean called “housewares”: an assortment of odds and ends such as sheets and blankets for 50 cents each, bedspreads and comforters for $5, toasters and coffee pots for $1. Lamps start at $9, and fake ficus trees sell for $10.
Source: The Tennessean
Some of the “Other Livestock” Around Here
03.10.11
That old DeSoto seems to strike an old "family cord" with ya, doesn't it Roy?
You know, I got a real eductaion on this one........it's a lot easier to restore Mustangs, Camaros & such, because there are so many after-market shops out there for finding the parts-----because so many other people are fixing them up, it's WORTH someone's effort to store up and/or make replacement parts.
But, you start playing with Hudsons, Studebakers, Kaisers, etc.........you often pay a very premium price for stuff, because it's all supply & demand, and the warehouseman way back there in North Carolina who HAS what you need-----he KNOWS you aren't walking into Pep Boys or Schuck's and ordering up a waterpump for a '52 Packard!
They've GOTCHA!
(And they haven't made any DeSoto's since 1961!)
That's why a lot of fully restored cars auction off for the BIG BUCKS.......all the time & expensive of rounding up stuff during the rebiild.
Chevys & Fords are everywhere.......ya wanns be "unique
Source: Mountain Home News (blog)