The $5,000 Comforter

Based on last week’s overwhelming response to my house painting update, it appears most people are interested in reading about my misfortunes. So while I was reading all the comments I thought you might like to know what prompted our latest round of home improvements. It started with a new bedspread, which Dana now refers to as the $5,000 comforter.

Actually we had been shopping for new bedroom furniture for a while, but we hadn’t found something we both liked. Then one day we were out shopping for something else when we found a new bedspread that we both really liked. However, the new comforter introduced a nice pale blue into our bedroom décor.

Knowing we would eventually find new furniture for our room, the relatively small investment put into motion an entire series of bedroom rearranging. Our old furniture would go into Catherine’s room, and Catherine’s old furniture would go into Mia’s room, but Mia’s really wanted bunk beds, and Catherine ended up getting a new bed frame, and on and on and on.

And since everyone was getting new bedroom furniture, and we had to rearrange the whole house, it seemed like a logical time for new paint. Hence Dana’s request for painting quotes and my unfortunate decision to paint the house by myself. In fact, when you add up the cost of our new furniture, all the painting supplies and materials, and the various side projects that have come up along the way (a new ceiling fan here, a new desk chair there) we’re closer to six grand.

So it goes with home improvements and their tendency to snowball into much larger and more expensive projects. With any luck I’ll be finished by the end of the year. But you know as well as I do that home improvements are never done.

Until next week,

Matthew Anderson, President
Milestone Marketing Associates, Inc.