I feel your pain! I recently bought a gorgeous lamp on eBay, and the shade that came with it was just SO WRONG... My first stop was to shop online to get a feel for the types of shades that were available and what I should expect to pay. Online, there were a lot of options in the $40-60 range -- some lower, some higher. But like you, I didn't want to buy sight unseen. Someone compared it to buying a hat without trying it on. So off with my base to my local lamp store -- Lamp Shade Heaven! But it was still a big chore to find just the right shade. We must have tried 30 different shades before finding a lovely silk shade that looked really, really good on my base. The prices weren't marked on the shades, and I was expecting something a bit over $60-ish, but would willingly have gone a bit higher given the service and consultation time (maybe $90?) -- but $150.00 ?! Yikes! I expressed my surprise and asked if he had anything a little less pricey. He said that the shade we selected was actually one of his more 'moderately-priced' shades, and that I appear not to have gone shade-shopping recently. (True, but...) So home I went with my $150 (gulp) lamp shade, and the knowledge gained from trying on shade after shade after shade. But I couldn't help but feel like I have been taken. So I went back online and hit the bricks: Home Goods, Ross, BB&B, Great Indoors, Lowes, Target, JC Penney, Macy's, Dillards, Michaels, MJ Designs -- and finally, Restoration Hardware. Restoration Hardware had the perfect shade -- in stock for $60. So back to the Shade Shoppe to return my $150 'moderately priced' wonder-shade... I'd like to support local businesses with personal service -- but there's a point at which the price difference just goes too far. If I had a do-over, I'd have talked price up-front with the Shade Shoppe guy. The lady in the shop at the same time as me was a professional designer, and she got a trade discount that I didn't get. It wouldn't be unusual to get 50% off, and at 40-50% off, I'd have been happy with the 'moderately priced' wonder-shade -- I bet if I had gone into the shop with a few printed pages from some web sites showing the type of shade and their pricing, that I'd have been able to negotiate a price I could live with and support local businesses at the same time.

Sometimes I wonder why we went with this split king bed LOL. It seemed like a perfect solution because my husband suffers from reflux and can pop his side up, but I swear it messes with the snuggle factor because I can always feel that split. My girlfriend has the "split head" king that looks like a tooth but only splits half way (I attached a picture below). She says she can feel the split too when she snuggles. And sheets my goodness just add another variable to the entire decision. I had to buy the split king cooling lyocell sheets from the mattress company and those cost $200. Granted, after spending a million dollars on this mattress and base it may not seem like a lot, but I still can't wrap my head around $200 for these "special sheets" when I paid half as much for my favorite super duper soft PeachSkinSheets for my old king bed. They were twice as soft and still kept my sweaty husband cool and dry (bless his precious heart). They just came out with a five piece split king sheet set that is under $100 but there are only two colors ...white and cream and I really need more of a wedgewood gray-blue :-( :-(. I've never tried the Target brand, but it sounds like they only have them at certain times during the year? << :-( I just checked online and Target doesn't have any listed right now>>. Even though they don't have my color, I think that I'm going to have to cave in and get a white set. Besides, white goes with everything (see, I can justify anything!). I am hoping they stay put but in case they don't, I have my back up Sheet Suspenders.....aha! Problem solved. Here is their link, if anyone else out there is spending as much time as I am on my bedding issues: PeachSkinSheets .

my sheets are washed and changed weekly as well. It wasn't a perspiration problem, it was a problem of a not so great washer, and the need to use biofriendly detergent, as originally stated. Anyway, today I happily soaked my white bar cloths today (washer was free of workers) &soaked them in the Persil & oxiwhite. Almost EVERYTHING came out of them! Hooray. They were looking not so good despite regular washings. Thank you for all your help! I'm not sure I can go back to "green" laundry products after this. And I am a believer of such things. my sheets are a beautiful thick crisp all cotton. I love them. I know I can get the rest out, its minimal compared to what it was. I should've taken a before/after shot, but it was too embarrassing!

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