About the delivery: I think UPS marks a package "out for delivery" as soon as it leaves their warehouse and is placed on a truck. Sometimes the driver can't make all the deliveries he has on the truck, so the rest get delivered the next day. This has happened to me more than once. The drivers have set pick-ups at businesses they have to make, and they do those first, leaving stray packages for other customers on the truck until the next day. Another UPS story: I ordered two rugs from Crate & Barrel and was tracking their delivery progress from my computer (I have a long driveway with a locked gate, and can't tell when the package has been delivered without getting in my car and driving 1/4 mile). So I see that the rugs have been delivered, and I go out to get them. At the gate is one box--with one rug in it. I double-check online and it says "delivered" with the date and time. I call UPS (all you can get is an 800 number in another part of the country). She calls the local warehouse, and someone calls me back. I explain again, and she contacts the actual driver. Then she calls back and says that he had already scanned two boxes in as "delivered" (and can't change it once entered), but he didn't have a plastic bag large enough for the other box, so he put it back on the truck. He didn't want to leave my package out in the rain! It was deliverd the next day. :-) So, even if UPS's web site says your package has been delivered, it may not be true!

Mimi, before you pay full price, try these codes from retailmenot.com 79115-04 20% off everything, can only be used when calling in an order to 800 922-5507 32119-03 10% off coupon on the back of a catalog, good through Oct. 13, 2008 These have varying success rates as reported by the people who tried to use them. One other tip is to call about their daily sales, you never know when your item will come up in the rotation. ALSO, you may want to check ebay for gift certificates that people do not want. One lady bought a $500 gift certificate from a newly wed couple for $400. They did not want any more merchandise and preferred the cash. Hope this helps.... I go to the retail me not site and also to naughtycodes.com before I buy ANYTHING online. I purchased a beautiful sunbrella market umbrella for our patio for around $99 from the manufacturer with various coupons. It was available for $359 from Ballards (where I shop a LOT). I checked naughtycodes for you, btw, and pottery barn isn't on their current coupon or discount list.

Thanks everyone :-) I'm glad to get going on this room finally. We moved in a couple years ago and I've concentrated on other areas first and now I'm ready to put the finishing touches on the bedroom. Johna...still patiently (tapping my foot) waiting to hear from Jim on the valances. Should be any day now :-)

Pammyfay, that exact thing happened to me at Kohls a couple of weeks ago. I was in the store with my daughters and bought a pair of boots for one of them. They were $54 originally, on sale for $27. I bought them. While we were there, I saw a coat my older daughter liked but they didn't have her size. I decided to look for it online when we got home. First thing I noticed was that they were offering a 20% discount on all purchases (I'd had a 15% coupon I used in the store). They had the coat dd liked, so I bought that as well as a couple of other items. For some reason, I looked at the boots I had just bought not two hours earlier in the store. They were selling for $14.99 in the store plus 20% off. I purchased them again planning to return the ones I'd bought in the store which were double the price! I knew I'd be going back to the store anyway as I had another item to return so it wasn't a hassle and worth it to save $15 (actually almost $20 b/c the extra 20% off online vs the 15% off in store). It was pretty off-putting though to find the website was selling the exact same item at the same time for more than half what I'd paid in the store just hours earlier. Incidentally, I had something similar happen in the reverse at Lands End. I was exchanging some uniform shirts in the Lands End store at Sears that I'd ordered online. I'd gotten them on sale online but they didn't fit. I brought them to the store to return, explaining I wanted to exchange them for a different size, thinking they would re-order them for me. I didn't realize they carried the shirts in the store, so the salesclerk told me where they were. They only had one in stock and I needed two. When she rang me up, they came up even cheaper than what I'd paid online. She had to call lands End to order the second one, but they were advertising it online for the price I originally paid, not the in store price. However, the salesclerk told me that Lands End would price match the store price, which was 25% less. Funny how online vs brick and mortar can have such differing prices!