New Store. New Stuff. Not So New Prices

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Cena Jun 21, 2001

Don't know how many people out there had a Home Base Store close recently in their communities, but in mine, they are reopening this weekend. You remember the saying something like "everyone lives in a house, but it takes a woman to make it a home...?" Well, the new store has cashed in on that gimmick, 'House 2 Home'.

The commercials are fantabulous. In them the gardening department has something for everyone, and the proper pot to put it in too!!!!!!

The reality is not Made in Hollywood! I found the store to be most acceptable as such stores go but... I found a lovely planter shaped as a well worn cowboy boot about 18 inches high, but I'll be hanged in Durango before I pay $99.99 for A PLANTER, even if it sports Tom Cruise, NAKED!

Yes, yes, yes, they had all those other 'hard-to-find' items like color coordinated party favors, and a Fog Machine to rent (I thought the store was burning down and the alarms hadn't gone off yet as there was this alarming cloud about 15 feet about everyones head...) They had staff in excess of about six to one per customers, even with a 'soft opening'.

I did see all sorts of interesting garden accoutremonts, foutains galore, with pieces, parts, and books for ideas to DIY. And they did have some smashing orchids, but being the Dirt Cheap person that I am, much more likely to spend 1/3 of the price for a 'clearance rack Lowes orchid' and be happy I didn't kill it!

And if Plastic is Your Thing! they had a great mix N match dried and fake flower area, plus all the decorator kind as far up as you'd care to spend.

If it goes in a house, you can buy it there. Is it something you NEED to live...? I don't think so.

But for all you folks, looking for an idea, or something new, or need to spend your money, by all means.

The reason that I think this is a Name Change sell out for Home Base is I had never written a check in this store, or any branch store before, but they had me in their register system. I used to shop at Home Base all the time.

And I gotta say the purchase I made and wrote a check for was plants. They had some lovely echinopsis cacti for $1.69 in two inch pots with fine little guys in them. Two inch pots of cacti, crassula, escheveria; you name it. Great big four inch cacti blooming their hearts out at $2.99. All the regular garden stuff was lovely, and they had eight or ten fountains set up outside, and at least 20 inside.

Definately a try, maybe not a buy.

Cena

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